TikTok is all Mina would do all day, if I didn’t force her out of the house to go shopping and stuff.
Category: Web
We are Cosmic Buddha
Aadab arz hai.
Cosmic Buddha has never charged for music, mostly because we know we suck (although that obviously does not stop others). We have not released music for many years, but we have the Real Media files, several mixtapes, and Y2K coding errors to prove we were first. Our band predates our blog on this domain by 10 years or so, and it’s been going since 2003.
Also, here’s some album art and gig posters from back in the day:
Seongbulhaseyo.
UPDATE: Really?
Marchall Amps AKA Weiduka
I was online looking for a cheap amp to replace my current cheap one (which has bust a capacitor or something and picked up an oscillating ground loop type hum) when I stumbled onto this beauty of a knockoff:
At first glance, I thought it was a legit Marshall product made for millennials, because with the similar font, my brain just skipped over the odd letter.
But this is only part of the reason this is one of my favorite knockoffs this year. The other lies in the specs:
Wongchongkrong noise is the sound of the People’s high-end AC power filter…
Wongchongkrong for the people!
WONGCHONGKRONG FOREVER !!
Buy your own Wongchongkrong generator here.
My Password Global Edition
Fun thing I learned today regarding secure passwords: the password "ji32k7au4a83" looks like it'd be decently secure, right? But if you check e.g. HIBP, it's been seen over a hundred times. Challenge: explain why and how this happened and how this password might be guessed
— Robert Ou (@rqou_) March 1, 2019
Via Hacker Newsletter
Old World Language Family Tree
Even after four years since its publication on SSSS, this is still one of my favorite images to just sit back and appreciate… Sometimes I just stare at this and listen to Nujabes when I’m thinking about something else. Karelian! Ludian! Vepsian! The names run wild in my head.
Text to Image Generator
Note: Do not ask this AI to generate a picture of someone sitting next to you, unless they happen to look like a Dali-Picasso hybrid: Text to Image
Will blogging get a second chance?
Maybe after FB withers and joins Hi5 and MySpace in the Afternet, blogging will come back big… I really don’t care that much, but it would be kind of cool to see people writing more and emoji-ing less 😉
Also, WordPress completely prevented my posting capabilities today until I installed their new editor plugin called Gutenberg, which really reminds me of early HTML editing software (PageMill? GoLive? Claris?). I mean, I thought we ditched block editors for simpler editing tools… Or are there only nerds and techies still blogging?
Unified Orientation
Via Reddit, the most important protest sign of this generation:
Mytrip.com travel agency review
According to their customer support, mytrip.com will not automatically sit your family together UNLESS you specify it at time of purchase and pay extra for it. They repeated more than once that this is specified in their terms and conditions, in reply to my multiple requests to not have my kids sit next to strangers (again).
Hopefully, this is enough to let you know what kind of operation they are running.
I do not wish for anyone to click on the links below, but am including them for indexing purposes:
https://twitter.com/mytrip_com
https://www.facebook.com/mytrip.com.official/
https://plus.google.com/+MytripTravel
https://www.mytrip.com
flights@mytrip.com
Yes, I am aware that the airline is in charge of final seating decisions. The thing is, we’ve been flying KAL for 30+ years with no issues; we are long time Morning Clam members and I’m even flying on a reward ticket (the mytrip.com tickets are for my wife and kids).
Please be aware of this unethical company and their stupid policies!
Visa Denied
The best immigration headline I’ve seen all year:
Swiss town denies passport to Dutch vegan because she is ‘too annoying’
I have now seen real democracy in action.