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Welcome to another late late (void) summary. It was a terribly busy week (1100 odd posts; often it's been more like 300) so we'll see how this goes... Isabelle Whitman was hit by Sircam (although she mistook it in the subject line for Code Red); nobody seemed to recieve many interesting things, but Chris Devers pointed out that the old 'you can't get viruses in email' was proving sadly untrue, and that Nimda had proved you could get them from web pages, too. Collin Forbes despaired at the chances of breaking the chain. William Wilson wondered if someone would write a real Good Times virus. Simon Wistow lusted after the good old days. People scratched about looking for details when the CERT advisories covered it all. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046390.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046398.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046402.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046426.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046432.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-26.html Chris Devers also sent an interesting snippet about number stations and recalled spies. Alex sent a big post about software art. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046408.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046452.html The Americans argued a lost about the Bush speech; Todd Larason seemed to get the thread really rolling, but Mike Jarvis was involved a lot, too. Isabelle jumped in as well, and somewhere Mike threw in some American myths. Robert Jones started a new thread disagreeing with Mike, and people argued, a lot, over Isabelle's forwarding of Michael Moore's latest writing and other things. (It carried on for a day or three.) http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046430.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046416.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046423.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046581.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046632.html Simon Wistow went nuts on list after reading about death; Patrik Nordebo mentioned 'le petit mort' and more, leading Simon to retort about dodgy sexual practices. In detail. Celia pointed out the sex-death link was probably related to generations. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046435.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046439.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046451.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046476.html In other news, bint as an offensive word (and other offensive words), more on loganberries, Julie Burchill, telethons, broken websites from predecessors, domestic violence, more Old Grey Whistle Test, British history on TV, Eskimo snow urban legends, recycling vs shares and PVRs. AND THAT WAS JUST FRIDAY. YOU BASTARDS. There was more about personal video recorders (like Tivo) on Saturday (Collin Forbes was informative; I leave the details for those who wish to peruse the archives), while Chris Devers, Chris Heathcote, Alex and ade were singing the praises of the Internet as a source of information. Like, meta threads, or something. Of course, you also get logs, so Todd Larason could tell us who was listening to Sounds of Passion... http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046665.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046662.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046669.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046653.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046708.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010917/046720.html Sunday evening and Monday morning seemed to be dominated by oneliners on revenge sex. The only long post was from William Wilson. There was a small discussion about the Falklands war, too, as Ashley Pomeroy forwarded an article from the Spectator. Ian Malpass talked about photographing (void)ers. Scary. Steve Mynott talked about Baywater. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046754.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046775.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046823.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046881.html Ian Malpass posted about old diaries, and Replicant talked about LiveJournal. Chris Devers andd John Melesky replied to Ashley wondering if the world had changed. Ashley knew about BMPs. Giles Turnbull has a Scrabble app for the Palm he'll beam to us, if we meet up anytime. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046902.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047040.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046929.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046945.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047023.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047041.html Following on from a day of oneliners, John Mcdonnell decided to start doing a survey. Some people suggested that adding more questions (in different veins to the last surveys) would be a good idea. There was much posting of responses, often multiple times. I'm not going to collate the responses, though. (Too much like hard work.) Some people did seem to twist the questions in odd ways. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046926.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/046946.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047031.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047054.html William Wilson wondered about P2P systems post-Napster. Chris Ball still likes Gnutella, although Simon Batistoni corrected him about Audiogalaxy for Linux. In summary, all three seem to work, but the AG and Kazaa seem more vulnerable. However, as Daynal pointed out, Kazaa is spyware: Mr B knew ways round that, too. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047017.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047058.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047063.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047074.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047080.html Niklas Nordebo posted a link to a Register story about ID cards. Simon Kinahen was upset; Replicant and Matt Jones suggested they'd burn them, which Lee Maguire questioned. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047071.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047076.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047094.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047264.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047386.html Aaron Trevena was ashamed of his British, while Ashley did some Mental Exercises on possible war things. The latter turned into an argument about bombs on the Tube, chemical warfare and, typically, nukes; the former was largely ignored, although Rob Jones did reply. There was also an argument about bias in the US media, with Chris Devers, Ashley and Rob Jones and William Wilson chucking in their two cents worth. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047177.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047171.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047228.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047234.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047350.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047316.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047317.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047334.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047384.html Al Snell's wrote about a book by his dad, and Harl talked about psychologists; Stuart Wyatt told us how to put on a gas mask, and Ashley went a bit nuts about lemon squeezers. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047351.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047356.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047357.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047390.html Daynal started talking about charities, and Steve Mynott argued with her. This carried on for a while. Giles Turnbull pointed out other sources of phone chargers after Al Snell found one online. Simon Wistow explained why you get asked if you're communist if you go to the US. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047403.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047416.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047423.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047429.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010924/047467.html Links of the week, from Simon Wistow, Matt Jones, Alex/Ade, Ashley and Celia: http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~wedgey/slime1/ http://www.thebrainstrust.co.uk/queenmum.swf http://www.chris-owens.net/alex/Movie4.swf http://www.ne.doe.gov/duf6/duf6activities.html http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/09/21/terror/index.html |