Saturday links
Aug. 28th, 2010 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. The Onion presents: Time Magazine for Grown-ups (Warning: The Onion videoplayer is annoying and will both autoplay if you embed it and continuous play and launch into other stories).
2. Ghost hunter finds himself eligible for a Darwin Award.
3. TV Writers get revenge in their scripts. Of course, Todd McFarlane is an example of when this can go too far.
4. If you somehow haven't seen it already, here's how twisted the finances of MLB are. Marlins fans, you've got every right to want to see your owner run out of town for the money he swindled from you.
5. Bonus Amazon Deal: J.A. Jance's Hour of the Hunter with bonus material (re-released to promote the latest book in the series. Note that one of the reviews complains of a bad OCR job and lack of copyediting (OTOH, it's free).
6. How Foursquare checkins can be hacked.
7. How weak passwords get hacked.
8. Quick comparison of Mendeley to the other big players in the bibliographic software area.
9. Lady Gaga Halloween Costumes.
10. Finally, don't forget (especially if you're local), that you've got until tomorrow to bid on some very tasty baked goods to support a damned fine cause.
2. Ghost hunter finds himself eligible for a Darwin Award.
3. TV Writers get revenge in their scripts. Of course, Todd McFarlane is an example of when this can go too far.
4. If you somehow haven't seen it already, here's how twisted the finances of MLB are. Marlins fans, you've got every right to want to see your owner run out of town for the money he swindled from you.
5. Bonus Amazon Deal: J.A. Jance's Hour of the Hunter with bonus material (re-released to promote the latest book in the series. Note that one of the reviews complains of a bad OCR job and lack of copyediting (OTOH, it's free).
6. How Foursquare checkins can be hacked.
7. How weak passwords get hacked.
8. Quick comparison of Mendeley to the other big players in the bibliographic software area.
9. Lady Gaga Halloween Costumes.
10. Finally, don't forget (especially if you're local), that you've got until tomorrow to bid on some very tasty baked goods to support a damned fine cause.