STS-130 has successful night launch

Well, if you consider after 4:00am night… Regardless, it’s the last night launch for the Space Shuttle program, ever. I bet it was beautiful sight first hand. We won’t ever see its like again.

When Endeavor punches through the clouds in the video, it almost looks other-wordly.

Good luck spacemen.

One more movie I won’t have to see – Captain America

Lock it up and throw away the key. Another douchebag director and Marvel crapping on something that doesn’t need to be changed.

Douchebag, er director Joe “I’m a douchebag” Johnston says:

I wanted to come back to the idea of Steve Rogers as a reluctant performer with United Services Organizations, which famously brought Bob Hope and other entertainers to morale-boosting events for troops overseas.

Ya, good job there. DIAF, STFU, and go direct something else.

Another web comic win

Saw this posted on PZ’s site. Bad Reporter is definitely is another web comic worth checking out.

HTML 5 Doctype and JavaScript having a tiff?

So I was messing about with JavaScript today in an HTML 5 file. Everything was going along swimmingly and interactiveness of said web page was cranking along fine. Until…

Certain bits I was adding wouldn’t work. Specifically something like:

document.getElementById(“chooseAnImageName”).style.height = 400;

Once I remove the doctype declaration, “<!DOCTYPE html>”  from the file everything worked fine. Not sure why this is happening or what other bits of JavaScript will also conflict within an HTML 5 page. The Googles have produced nothing.

Guess I’m going to find out on my own.

How you get phished

Social networks (ie Facebook, MySpace, etc) are really a horrible vector by which to get royally screwed.

All it takes is for one person in your friends list to get hacked – and that hacked account to send you a link.

I mean, really, are you NOT going to click that link? Do you event think about what people send you?

I use Steam for my gaming and game management on my PC. It has a built in social network feature. You can join groups, add friends, and send chats. Someone’s account in one of those groups got hacked. They are sending out chat messages with a supposedly funny link. To the untrained eye it looks legit – but hey, this is part of what I do for a living so I knew something was up as soon as that linked flashed in the text box.

The user has been subsequently reported and a screen shot tossed up on all the gaming forums I know of to hopefully warn others off.

That’s how it happens. That’s how you end up entering your log-in info into a website that looks remarkably legit. Maybe you think you are logging into your Facebook, MySpace or Steam account. All you are really doing is sending your login and password directly to a bad guy. Moreover, if you are like most people, your login and password are the same across the web, for your bank, for your gmail, for your computer. Once that bad guy has your information, it’s a short hop to try it out at popular websites. Then you are really compromised.

Welcome to the wonderful world wide web. Be on your guard or you will get screwed.

NEVER open up a suspicious link in a regular web browser. I use Sandboxee which locks things down and keeps malicious code from running amok.

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I love me some Stewart.


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New name, same old crap?

Comcast is changing its name. In 11 markets, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Hartford, Augusta, Chattanooga, Portland, and San Francisco, Comcast will become XFINITY.

XFINITY

Does this make their horrible customer service, ludicrous network throttling, and monopolies on local markets better?

Doubt it. I’m sure it’ll cause confusion and billing errors.

It might fool some new people (or very old people), and perhaps that’s their end game to pick up a few new customers.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if all that energy actually went into fixing their problems and delivering a product and allowing customers to use what they pay for? Shocking idea!

Lucas has gone mad?

Click image to see more insanity!

Some where Jam Master Jay is rolling in his grave.

Extended coverage with videos here.

Alien Rap

I don’t know how I missed this. It’s long, but worth every rhyme.

A new perspective by the AMNH

The American Museum of Natural History has put together a phenomenal video of the known Universe. Visually awesome.

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