Ramblings & ephemera
From Improv Everywhere’s “Missions: Best Buy” (23 April 2006):
Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. Wearing clothing almost identical to the store’s uniform, the [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Will Sturgeon’s “Proof: Employees don’t care about security” (silicon.com: 16 February 2006):
CDs were handed out to commuters as they entered the City by employees of IT skills specialist The Training Camp and recipients were told the disks contained a special Valentine’s Day promotion.
However, the CDs contained nothing more than code which informed The Training [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bush, Kerry cross paths in Iowa (BBC News: 4 August 2004):
US President George W Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry have spent the day hunting votes within blocks of each other in the state of Iowa.
Mr Bush met supporters at a rally in the town of Davenport, while Mr Kerry held an economic [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Jessica Sachs’s “Expiration Date” (Legal Affairs: March/April 2004):
More than two centuries of earnest scientific research have tried to forge better clocks based on rigor, algor, and livor mortis - the progressive phenomena of postmortem muscle stiffening, body cooling, and blood pooling. But instead of honing time-of-death estimates, this research has revealed their vagaries. Two [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The Inquirer’s “Killer phrase will fill your PC with spam”:
THERE IS ONE phrase which, if you type into any search engine will expose your PC to shed-loads of spam, according to a new report.
Researchers Ben Edelman and Hannah Rosenbaum reckon that typing the phrase “Free Screensavers” into any search engine is the equivalent of [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville (399):
No wheeze was too old for [John Bankhead] Magruder to employ it. One morning he sent a column along a road that was heavily wooded except for a single gap in plain view of the enemy outposts. All day the gray files swept past in [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville (384):
When [Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard's men] stole out of the intrenchments [at Corinth] after nightfall, they left dummy guns in the embrasures and dummy cannoneers to serve them, fashioned by stuffing ragged uniforms with straw. A single band moved up and down the deserted [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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