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Category: Web
Shared server tool
Use this handy site to see what other domains are hosted on your shared server: Reverse IP Domain Check
It was mildly amusing to find a site on my shared server called, I shit you not, “Penguin Sex.” And yes, I was too scared to click the link (well, at work anyway).
Olympics Online
An excellent guide to watching the Olympics online over at the Wired How-to wiki: Watch the Olympics Online
More yummy cake pics
Some people are more frosting specialists than thinkers: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate
This is apparently a continuation of this photo.
Dave Barry on the Beijing Olympics
Dave Barry is writing again, blogging about the Olympics.
Liukowleezation
This photo has been floating around for a month, usually with a variant of this explanation:
“Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online translator, took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying the English version of their name: Translate Server Error.”
I tend to be a bit more suspicious – whoever thought up this viral photo strategy is a freakin’ genius! I hope they make money hand over capitalism-loving fist as a result of this brilliant web strategy.
Calvin and Jobs
Oh my. If only Susie Derkins could have seen this: Calvin and Jobs Kick Steve’s Nuts
FTW: The candidate who pledges to reform/elim TSA gets the traveller’s vote
Wherein airline pilot Patrick Smith (of Ask the Pilot fame) gets jacked at a security checkpoint for airline eating utensils stowed in his luggage. Seriously, how can you travel by air these days and not think that the terrorists have already won?
Generation Kill
A new HBO show worth watching, although this week’s episode was kinda slow: Generation Kill