Month: June 2004

Shure E2C Earphones Broke

The Shure E2C earphones that I ordered and received 3 months ago on March 3rd, has had one of the casings on the right side break. I have treated it well; never dropped it, stepped on it, or anything like that. Just one time I went to take it out of my ears, and the…


Advertisement Sticker On Bananas

Alex Taylor has a post on a discovery he had made: advertisements on a banana. Usually you’ll see the brand name of the banana, such as Dole, or even tracking numbers, but ads on a banana? If there ever was a sign of a coming apocalypse, this would be it. “Who came up with this…


Gmail Is Too Creepy

A lot of people are clamoring to get Gmail invites (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and use Google’s 1GB web email service, but many of them aren’t looking at the dark side of Gmail, which is pretty dark indeed. Gmail-Is-Too-Creepy.com is a site the tells you about the dangers of Gmail and their…


Dump Internet Explorer (Revisted)

As an extension to the Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer post, here’s a revisit to the topic by a security expert at SecurityFocus: “The latest version of IE is 6, and it has certainly accumulated an impressive record of holes: 153 since 18 April 2001, according to the SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities Archive. There have been…