Debra Messing shock horror!

  By Mr. Bobbot | December 21, 2011 - 12:21 pm | Google Leave a comment

Debra MessingGoogle Trends is an interesting thing. It shows the hot searches on the Google search engine at regular intervals. Fifteen minutes ago the U.S. surfers searched the most on Debra Messing. If find it interesting for a lot of reasons. The number one reason is that in my world Debra Messing is one of the most bland actresses in the history of things appearing in the most overrated sit-com in the history of things. She’s less interesting than a thigh-master. Now it turns out that she has separated from her husband and people for some reason needs to Google her.

Very, very cgbadgc good!

  By Mr. Bobbot | November 17, 2011 - 10:26 am | Spam 4 Comments

dumbFound two quite interesting spam comments (captured by the almighty Akismet, of course) today. Both submitted at the same minute from users with the normal spammy randomized email addresses (name + random letter + random number @ aol.com). The IP addresses from the submitters originate from New Zealand and Germany.

“Hello! cgbadgc interesting cgbadgc site! I’m really like it! Very, very cgbadgc good!”

“Hello! adgekdd interesting adgekdd site! I’m really like it! Very, very adgekdd good!”

At first you’d think there’s not that many bloggers nowadays that don’t use any kind of spam filters and at the same time autoapproves comments from on unknown users. Well, think again. A simple search on the following line: “Hello! * interesting * site! I’m really like it! Very, very * good!” gives 8.2 million results.

The stupidity never ceases to amaze.

Jeff Goldblum congratulates the gamers

  By Mr. Bobbot | November 16, 2011 - 9:19 am | Gaming 1 Comment

Back in the 1990′s, when Jurassic Park was still all the rage, Jeff Goldblum made an appearance to congratulate the gamer when the game The Lost World was beaten. Well, he sort of did, anyway.

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Critical vulnerability in Windows could allow remote code execution

  By Mr. Bobbot | November 9, 2011 - 10:08 am | Security Leave a comment

Yesterday Microsoft released a security bulletin about a new vulnerability in TCP/IP which can allow an attacker to execute code remotely by a continuous flow of UDP packets to a closed port on the target’s Windows computer. This vulnerability affects Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. A security update has been released that modifies the way the UDP packets are kept track of in memory.

The best ASCII art

  By Mr. Bobbot | November 4, 2011 - 11:19 am | Computer graphics 4 Comments

Back in the day when text files ruled the world the really cool (ahem) kids decorated the text files with ASCII art. Made famous by crackers everywhere.

If you have no idea what ASCII art is, you really need to click the link I just posted. I mean, really.

Here are a few sweet examples of great and sometimes rather famous ASCII art from a couple of cracking groups.

ASCII art 1ASCII art 2ASCII art 3ASCII art 4

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The Nikon D3 Halloween costume

  By Mr. Bobbot | October 26, 2011 - 9:03 am | Cameras 3 Comments

Nikon D3 Halloween costumeThink your Halloween costume this year will impress? Think again, unless it can beat the working DSLR costume made by Tyler Card.

He’s made a Nikon D3 out of cardboard and a plastic barrell painted black. But that’s not the cool part. The cool part is that it hlds his own DSLR camera inside it and he can take pictures using the big shutter above his elbow. Over his head he has a big flash with a working wireless strobe lightning the scene and on his back he’s got a big LCD monitor from an old laptop that acts as the image preview.

Read more:
Working DSLR Costume Will Easily Win Every Contest This Weekend

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BATracer – the world’s best browser game

  By Mr. Bobbot | October 25, 2011 - 1:38 pm | Gaming Leave a comment

BATracerLately I’ve got stuck in BATracer again. It’s been a few years since then and the website has since I last logged in even managed to get threatened by Ferrari’s lawyers. This has meant that the car sets and team names had to be redone to not resemble the real world. That doesn’t stop it from being incredibly playable though.

BATracer is a browser based race simulation where you play the part as a racing driver. There’s no actual driving involved though, as it’s all about tinkering with set ups and different sliders to adjust qualifying, driver and race settings. Doesn’t sound very exciting, but once the season is underway it’s difficult to let go.

The game has lots of different car sets with different set of rules mimicing racing like Formula 1, GP2, Formula 3, Sportscars, DTM, BTCC and the now deceased A1GP.

Each round takes 24 hours and the racing is divided into a practice session (where you get your first try at nailing the setup), qualifying (get on pole by using the optimal setting of aggressiveness and timing), warmup (last chance to nail the setup) and race (plan pitstops, chose how agressive you want to be in the start etc.).

Give BATracer a try!

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NFLX stocks go down after forecast

  By Mr. Bobbot | October 25, 2011 - 7:31 am | Movies Leave a comment

Netflix (NFLX) have projected losses for 2012 and as a result their stock went down 27% during trading. Netflix who stream video online and offer DVD subscriptions was planning to expand further globally but have delayed their plans.  Since July NFLX has lost over $10 billion in market value since the high point in the middle of July.

While the big plans to expand globally are on hold Latin America, Great Britain and Ireland will be able to take part of Netflix’ services in early 2012.

When the company enters the UK market they will also be competing with Amazon’s Lovefilm company (Amazon purchased in in early 2011), which offers the same kind of services and have been available in the country since 2006.

 

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War of the Worlds on Xbox

  By Mr. Bobbot | October 17, 2011 - 3:30 pm | Gaming 4 Comments

Other Ocean, the guys who brought us the PSN port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is about to release War of the Worlds on XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade). War of the Worlds is a side-scrolling 2D platformer (YAH!) based loosely on the old H.G. Wells sci-fi novel (YAH! again) and narrated by Captain Picard himself (epic YAH!).

The screenshots look promising and Bobbot loves old school 2D games!

War of the worldsLookie lookie.

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When automated spam goes slightly wrong

  By Mr. Bobbot | October 13, 2011 - 9:13 pm | Spam 3 Comments

The interwebs is a complicated place.

Hello!, I’ve gone ahead and bookmarked %BLOGURL% on Digg so my friends can see it too. I just used %BLOGTITLE% as the title in my bookmark, as I figured if it is good enough for you to title your blog post that, then you probably would like to see it b…