Archive for November 29th, 2006

November 29th, 2006

ID for pancakes

RedOrbit - Oddities - IHOP Changes Policy of Asking for IDs
QUINCY, Mass. - John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped. “‘You want my license? I’m going for pancakes, I’m not buying [...]

November 29th, 2006

Crap of the Future

AlterNet: Crap of the Future
DNA DRM: The latest solution to the problem of media copying is a digital rights management (DRM) scheme that relies on identifying the DNA of the consumer. When you purchase a piece of media, your licensed copy is encoded with 13 unique sequences of nucleotides from your genome. Each time you [...]

November 29th, 2006

mod_rewrite

/dev/random ยป WordPress and /server-status
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status
I don’t have this problem, since I don’t use the root directory for my blog, but I know others who do.
its an easy fix

November 29th, 2006

sense of direction

I needed to go to the eye doctor the other day.
So I looked it up on google maps
my dad was looking at the computer and was like
“if you go this way, go 3 stop lights, turn left, then right, 2nd stop sign, take a left”
and i was like wow
I never have any idea where I [...]