From time-to-time NewMexiKen has linked to mental_floss quizzes, the most recent just yesterday. Some of these quizzes are pretty difficult. I have a subscription to their magazine (thank you again Nora and Jason) and browsing through the letters to the editor I learned just how difficult. Last December they had a quiz about discontinued Ben & Jerry’s flavors. According to a letter, Jerry got just 8 of 10 correct.
More than a thousand page views yesterday (not counting feed readers) but just 12 votes for the day’s Oscar poll.
You will remember that Albuquerque’s Mayor Marty ordered the red light cameras off last week when the legislature passed a bill removing all profit from the city. He was, I guess, trying to bluff the governor in hopes of getting him to veto the bill. Yesterday the mayor ordered the program back on again citing the increase in infractions — and probably because the city council was threatening to overturn him. According to a local political reporter when the mayor “was asked about settling his differences with the Guv,” the mayor “said, ‘He’s got my cell number.'” He’s got your number all right.
Some snow overnight here at Casa NewMexiKen. Covered the bushes and trees, but not the pavement. The temp is above freezing. I haven’t seen any awesome photos of last night’s eclipse yet. If you see any, let me know.
I briefly posted an item yesterday about Lindsay Lohan’s photo shoot to see if I could generate a bunch of Google traffic, but after a few minutes I thought better of it. Just rely on the old standbys I thought — you know, Omarosa.
Some blogger swiped a photo of one of The Sweeties® to illustrate a post about a child spilling ice cream onto the court during an NBA game. I guess this guy was never a kid himself. Anyway, he gave the photo no credit and is using my bandwidth to post it. But, after consulting with the mom, I figured c’est la vie. I wonder if he even knows I know.
Have your son contact him. 🙂
I once saw somebody change all the images so that the ones being stolen would reflect that. I’ve been faced with the problem in the past and usually just delete the photo.
-Ave
I’m not voting because 1) I haven’t seen a single one of those movies and 2) I just don’t care. Sorry.
There’s a pretty good photo on the front page of this morning’s “The Oregonian.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/
The really nicely mean thing to do would be to replace the picture with p0rn.
Hehe – mod_rewrite to the rescue 😉 I was so annoyed with people stealing my bandwidth that I put some emergency measures in place. When somebody hotlinks to an image on my site, the image will magically change for all other users. Take a look at this dude’s myspace profile for example:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18865809
He saw a different background when he created his page. And because it was cached in the browser he continued to see the good version. Everybody else however will see the one you see right now …
The image returned is small in terms of bytes, but it happens to be a 5000 x 5000 PNG file which can screw up a layout quite dramatically (especially when no IMG width/height attributes are being used). Here’s a nice example for that case:
http://www.impactlab.com/2006/09/08/the-potential-dangers-of-splenda/
I’m sooo mean sometimes 😉
I changed the name of the photo file and that broke his link.