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“Reindeer eat hallucinogenic mushrooms more for the high than the nutrition, [Balcombe] argues, and normally carnivorous jaguars sometimes trip on tree bark.” Wired Magazine.

From Wired: How to secure your data

Surveys suggest that 3 out of 4 companies monitor employees’ online activity. Protect yourself from workplace prying by following a few simple rules:

Cover your clacks

If you suspect the man is logging your every keystroke, install Spyware Doctor 3.8. It’ll expose any program running silently in the background while you work. (Note: you may need an admin password to install the app. If your IT department refuses to help, try bribing them with a spool of blank DVDs.)

Surf undercover

Prevent your boss from tracking your daily URL crawl with a Web-based program like The Cloak, which masks the addresses of sites you visit by redirecting your browsing through its domain.

Change up your email

Don’t use your work email for anything other than, well, work. If you want to send private messages over your employer’s servers, set up an encrypted email account with a provider like Hushmail.

IM on the DL

With an admin password, you can download an encrypted service like PSST (psst.sourceforge.net) or a program like Encrypted Messenger, which encodes most IM clients. The quick and dirty way: open an AOL IM account and use the Web-based chat service. With all the Web activity at work, the chance that anyone will notice your texting is small.

Delete Files Forever

You do know that file-recovery software can resurrect everything you just emptied out of your Trash or Recycle Bin, right? It may look as if you’ve removed them from the hard drive, but the 1s and 0s of the so-called deleted files still exist. The only sure way to permanently erase sensitive material is to overwrite the disk space with new data.

PC
Download the free Eraser app, which uses a process rigorous enough to meet Pentagon standards.

Mac
Choose “Secure Empty Trash” from the Finder menu and the skeletons in your hard drive are toast.

Get peace of mind

Still spooked? check out the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s guide to cloaking tools.

And I owe it all to Shawn!

www.programmermeetdesigner.com
“…created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great. It also lets entrepreneurs and writers find people to work with.”

Talk about a fantastic idea! So here is my ad:

Designer looking for a Programmer for long-term partnership

Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes.

Some of Nathan’s favourite routes

Chapel-Perilous: “Here we have Donald Rumsfeld ADMITTING that Kubrick filmed the fake moon landing…”

Opération lune

These Levante Geonet Tights are just… sexational!

Just one batch imported from Italy… you could be one of the special few women in the world to wear them. I have a feeling these are going to sell out fast.

Well this is a pretty handy link for those of us who are flying this weekend and those wretched souls who’ve had their flights cancelled and are stranded at the airport right now.

www.sleepinginairports.net
Airports across the world are ranked based on comfort for sleepers along with stories, tips and tricks on getting the best possible sleep in. I’m thinking it might be fun to book myself on a bunch of cheap connecting flights around the world in 80 days.

They have just banned my ultimate peeve!!! I wish someone would do something about it here too…

Advertisers will have to turn down the volume
ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s government plans to clamp down on broadcasters turning up the volume when they show advertisements in order to get viewers’ attention.

Communications Minister Paolo Gentiloni said research showed Italy’s three main channels on average raised the volume on adverts by 50 percent compared with ordinary programming, even though this is banned under Italian law. It is usually done by networks in agreements with advertisers in order to try keep viewers glued to the screen during the publicity breaks.

“We need to stop television advertising that raises its voice,” Gentiloni told a news conference. He said Italy’s media watchdog would set up a fine system before the end of September for those found breaking the law.

We did indeed have a splendiferous evening! Here you can see Niq preparing our kindling…

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