Wednesday Linkdump

I haven't got much to show for myself at the moment. Some yardwork, some phone calls. There's just nothing to report. So I've thrown together another linkdump. I miss getting my comics on Wednesday, it was something that got me up and moving. This town needs a comic shop, but it needs a bookstore first. Anyway, here's some stuff I found interesting for you to peruse.

Want.

Those darn music pirates! They're going to destroy the industry!

A Pictorial History of the Game of Go. Having gotten interested in Go thanks to the Manga Hikaru No Go, I found this post to be informative.

No Eye Contact Glasses, being given away at the Rotterdam Zoo after a woman was attacked by a gorilla when she made eye contact.

Vegan French Toast. I'd love to try it.

Early E-mail. The look on the guy's face is pretty well-done.

Moral of the story: Debt is Evil. If you look at the comments, you'll see that somebody found the case in a Florida law database, so at least some of the story is true.

I just ran across this book review of Lauren Slater's Opening Skinner's Box, a book about psychology and its most famous experiments. The title refers to BF Skinner's "box" that he put his daughter in. The popular version of the story is completely different from the truth: the "box" was a climate controlled playpen that maximized attention from parents and minimized harm from environmental factors. The review is a detailed look at the complaints made about the book by some of its subjects, and makes me wish I had a copy to read. Guess I'll have to check the library (and probably get it through inter-library loan).

Why people can't take the tea-baggers seriously (besides their hilariously poor choice of name).

Family allowed to visit the ranch they lost in 1943 when the Hanford reservation was created as part of the war effort.

More LOLCat Theology.

Linkdump

Mailman wants to wear a kilt. More power to him. I gotta admit, he even appears to have nice legs (not that it matters).

Amazon Oddities: things you might not expect to see on Amazon. Not Safe For Work!

Hard to Find Support Numbers, always good to have available.

Dead Malls. I'm mostly including this link because it mentions Factoria Mall, which is in my stomping grounds.

For Doctor Who fans: Mickey and K9.

Oh, rats. Don't read the main article. *shudder*

If your name even contains a profanity, you might not be allowed to use it for e-mail. Hardcoded filters?

Knights Templar sue the Pope.

Basement Cat Tempts the Weak.

Useful Pug for the in-laws.

The Chicken Battle is Ov-ah!

Yah! We seem to have managed to get Eric's list unsubscribed from the rare chicken breeders list! Huzzah!

I'll tell you, it's been at least a decade since I forged an e-mail address, though.

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

My husband runs two mailing lists from our ISP. One of them was recently subscribed to a rare poultry mailing list. Yeah, the LIST was subscribed to another list. See, the list address is very normal. It doesn't appear to be a list address if you just read it. So somebody, and we have no idea who, subscribed that normal-looking address to a mailing list with over 1000 subscribers.

The results have been messy. Because my husband's list is closed, only subscribers can post to it. So if a message comes in from someone who isn't a subscriber, the list software kicks back a note saying "you aren't subscribed to the list" and so on.

Well, on my husband's side, he suddenly started receiving 40 or so messages a day about chickens, and with every message he got a copy of the note saying "You aren't subscribed". So he tried to get off the Chicken List, but his mailing list address is a mailing list address: he can't send notes from it! So he can't automatically unsubscribe.

On the Chicken List side, every single note they sent is returned to their list by my husband's list with that same note, which they didn't read or couldn't understand, because they thought it was a virus or something.

So the Chicken lovers are angry at my husband and my husband is angry at the Chicken List owner for not removing the address when he asked.

So I finally got interested in the fray, and found the Chicken List on Yahoo Groups, subscribed to it, and sent a note to them explaining the situation. I then contacted Yahoo support and asked that my husband's list address be taken off the Chicken List. Then I did a little research, and discovered that the Chicken List has a parallel list that was created two years ago when the original list owner got very ill and couldn't take care of the list. So there is apparently NO list owner that can remove my husband's mailing list address from the list.

Which just goes to show that a Chicken List with its head cut off is a menace to the 'net.