See my blog entry discussing the interview with Richard Thieme @ Whitedust. But as an extention of the blog entry perhaps slashdot could be considered as such (sometimes).

Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.
            - Max Frisch

Ok so heres how it goes...Im sure that if you saw anything to do with the Cheney/Edwards debate, you saw that Cheney foobared the url for factcheck.org. Well hes pointed out a great way to perform a DDos attack.

Take a site that has a high hit ratio, either by hacking or being the owner, then redirect that traffic to a competitor...for example you could take out googles webservers with all the yahoo hits added to it or vice versa (all conjecture but possible). Interesting in theroy at the very least.

Recently I read about a ring of DDoser's that were busted doing DDos for hire. Talk about information warfare...

Title: North Korea to Hack US
Text: http://nullvariable.blogspot.com/2004/10/north-korea-to-hack-us.html
Summary: North Korea has trained 500 hackers says South Korea.

Title: Earthlink free VoIP
Text: http://nettelephony.blogspot.com/2004/10/earthlink-offers-free-voip-service-to.html
Summary: Earthlink now offers its existing customers free VoIP phone service.

Title: 83,422,785 instances of spyware found
Text: http://nullvariable.blogspot.com/2004/10/83422785-instances-of-spyware-found.html
Summary: Webroot and Earthlink report on spyware/adware.

The next step to total privacy invasion? Monday October 04, @09:59PM Rejected So my latest submission (along with all others that Ive written) was Rejected...I have yet to figure out the slashdot system for articles...oh well no hard feelings...but if any of you have found out what it takes to get to the front page...let me know :) (btw if ya want to read that post try here)

Ive just written an extensive post for slashdot on the subject of a possible new national id card system...might just be something to write your congressperson over...(we'll see if they post it...the post is repeated on my personal blog here

see: http://uselessweb.blogspot.com/
The following is a conversation between myself and a friend on IRC regarding color schemes:
(the other party's name has been removed at their request, also unrelated comments are removed for easier reading)
[00:37] * KMan ponders good color schemes
[00:37] anonymous> hey kman? ...
[00:37] kman> yo
[00:37] anonymous> you want to know a foolproof way to make colour schemes?
[00:37] kman> :p sure
[00:37] anonymous> take a piece of art
[00:38] anonymous> you like
[00:38] anonymous> any piece
[00:38] anonymous> google images
[00:38] anonymous> and just sample about 8 random colours ...
[00:38] kman> hmmm
[00:38] anonymous> the guy that did the painting did the colour choosing already ...
[00:38] anonymous> don't even think about it.. just random swatches
[00:38] kman> hmm