The game of the day is:
In the comment section of my blog, complete this sentence:
“If my feet had balls….”
Archive of posts filed under the ____ of the day/week category.
Here’s Space Ghost with something to think about
Today’s question comes from a fark thread
If somebody gave you a brand new Lamborghini, absolutely free on the condition that you must always have a license-plate reading “SHEMALE” – would you take it?
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me
My image of the day from http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040920/480/dn10109201907
SCO joke of the day
The mailing list 0xdeadbeef gives us the SCO joke of the day:The Sultan’s Son
Quote of the day
This comes to us from Groklaw article SCO’s Reply Memorandum Re Discovery – as text
But the reality is, this case is about a contract dispute. Linux got dragged into it as hostage. SCO is holding Linux by the neck, pointing a gun at its head, and telling IBM, “Do what I tell you, or I’ll shoot your little friend.”
Spam Subject: line of the day
This spam came into the moderation queue of the LUNI general mailing list, which I help moderate. This has got to be one of the best spam subjects I’ve seen in awhile.
Subject: Not a dating service, a SHAGGING service!
Groovey, baby!
Java dumbness of the day
My friend seva is an admin of some unix boxes (including linux) at a firm that does some stockish stuff. Appearently, some of their applications are based on java. He was running into a weird situation where the box was in EDT (where it lived) and but java kept thinking it was CDT (where the box was originally.) Well, it was reporting “America/Chicago” technically.
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Don’t mess with Texas’s Transportation Dept.
I learned something new today from the AP article Don’t Mess With Our Slogan, Texas Warns.
“Don’t mess with Texas” was an anti-littering slogan created by Texas’s Transportation Dept. Its now in our common lexicon and plastered everywhere, but until today, I had no idea it had such a non-macho beginning.
openssl as a debugging client
Today’s “useful tool of the day” comes to us thanks to the openssl command line tool from openssl. It was probably well known to all, but I just found out about it today.
From the openssl man page:
s_client This implements a generic SSL/TLS client which can establish
a transparent connection to a remote server speaking SSL/TLS.
It's intended for testing purposes only and provides only
rudimentary interface functionality but internally uses
mostly all functionality of the OpenSSL ssl library.
Here’s an example:
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