Stuff I found funny, interesting, just plain disturbing, or for my own personal benefit.

Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! Your Dog Will Love It!

Tags: comics, funny, spam

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But here’s a few for the books:

• Punk-ass teenagers who think they own the sidewalk and won’t squeeze to one side, especially when there are banks of snow on either side. One of these times I’m gonna knock one of those ass-clowns down on their bitch-ass and then laugh my ass off. And I wrote “ass” way too many times there. See what I mean? Riled up…
• Cyclists who think they own the sidewalk. I don’t care how treacherous the street is; it’s called a sidewalk for a reason, you jackholes! And then to yell, “Excuse me,” like you have any rights whatsoever. All that does is make me move to the middle and slow down.
• Drivers that don’t signal. Those little levers on your steering column and those little lights on the corners of your vehicle aren’t just for other drivers, you know. You people make me late getting to places, waiting for your dumb-ass selves to make your move.
• Drivers that don’t look for pedestrians when turning on a red light.
• Drivers that stop in the middle of a crosswalk. You ass-monkeys force me to either walk dangerously close to oncoming traffic (which is probably chock full of more idiots like you), or behind you where I run the chance of getting crushed at the knees by a tailgater or smoked off by someone who didn’t see me because of you. Stopped at an intersection is not the time you should be using to finish your pudding! (Yes, this actually happened.)
• Places that close before their posted hours. Whether I want to come in at 8:05AM or 9:55PM, I’m still a damn customer. If you don’t want me coming in 5 minutes before closing then don’t say you’re open that late.

I’ll add more if I think of them.

I don’t blame the author of the software or the PHP programming language. It was an easy mistake to make. I still intend on using the software (and upgrade to the newest version even). It was my own fault for not keeping a closer eye on the server logs and on the TNG mailing list to notice that this kind of thing was going on.

I haven’t actually been able to pinpoint the exact day or time when the hack occurred. The first attempts began in mid-March. I don’t think the hack actually occurred until just a few days ago, when I noticed the page on my site was posted in a Spanish-language forum as a badge of honour as it were. Thankfully, the kids trying this stuff out aren’t really that bright, as witnessed by a lot of failures to even copy and paste correctly.

One of them actually managed to copy a couple of executables that looked like IRC server software or something, but was undoubtedly stopped cold when it had no chance of running on my server’s architecture.

These are the IPs of the machines from which these kiddies attempted their hacks, followed by the URLs where they hosted their payloads:

Update (18 Jul 2007): I’ve created a quick and dirty live feed of hack attempts and the external links from where the attack scripts are being hosted, seeing as I’m still getting the odd attempt now and then…

Update (15 Sep 2007): List removed since it’s grossly out of date.

At first I didn’t notice what was happening until half way through. I had to go back and rewatch it. But then I was laughing for five minutes straight. It still makes me laugh now, even after watching it for probably my tenth time.

A higher quality version is available at their site. There are also others available. Dynasty, Golden Girls, Designing Women, and Cheers, I thought were also well done. The remaining were a little more mature or risqué, and IMHO not quite as funny.

The original version:

The amped up version:

The song used, as if you didn’t know, is America, Fuck Yeah* from Team America: World Police.

* Warning: contains coarse language

Apparently being looked into.