Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Ong's Hat audio online Few "conspiracy theories" are quite as bizarre as the legend of Ong's Hat. Now, Joseph Matheny's Ong's Hat interview- Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell show), November 2000 is available in MP3, until (maybe) they get sued. via [IncuBLOGula: STARE] Ong's Hat? What? Start at incunabula.org to get a preview. Or technoccult.net. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

Merlin's spamtrap catches a grifter. Merlin Mann, whose notion for a spammer honeypot I blogged a few days back, has caught his first spammer with it. The perp is running an identity-theft scam that sends you a deceptive URL (http://www.paypal.com@207.44.196.35/~redbarpr/cgi-bin/webscr%3fcmd=verification/( for what appears to be a PayPal renewal screen and sucks up your personally identifying information and credit-card info. This was mined on June 19th at 7:41pm (EDT) by IP 62.215.3.38... I'll can post more later if needed, but I wanted to let you white hats, wizards, and net detectives go nuts on researching these IPs if the spirit moves you. Boing Boing Discuss [Boing Boing post] Ah, confirmation of my earlier PayPal scam email post. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

The Phoenix Lights This is a follow-up on the "Out of the Blue" post. The show last night was good. I thought I'd seen all the UFO footage by now, but no, there was a lot that was new to me. I especially enjoyed the segment on the so-called Phoenix Lights. This website seems to be a direct parallel. The event which is referred to as The Phoenix Lights comprised of a series of incidents, involving a number of different craft and orbs which took place during the evening of March 13th 1997. At approximately 7-50p.m. a "V-shaped" formation of bright blue/yellow-white orbs were observed leaving the Las Vegas area (Nevada) and flying at speed over the border into Arizona. The object was observed to travel over the Phoenix area and then on to Tuscon - via a 300 mile corridor. The "V-shaped" formation was observed by hundreds if not thousands of people - from lorry drivers to physicians and children to lawyers. A whole cross section of society witnessed the object as it made its way across the Arizona skies. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

A Guide to All Those Blog Buttons Buttons everywhere, what do they do? Permanent link to all that Day's posts (click or copypaste) Permanent link to that particular post (click or copypaste) Subscribe if you're running Radio Userland (click) Link to raw XML-RSS feed (click or copypaste) Subscribe if you're running AmphetaDesk (click) Radio Userland's home (click) permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

RSS - What is RSS? "RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. [snip] RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them." This XML button, at the end of the right column, is there so that people can "subscribe" to the root.cellar RSS feed by copypasting its URL http://radio.weblogs.com/0123486/rss.xml into their news aggregators. And now I've added a new button at the end of the right column. It's there so that users of the AmphetaDesk newsreader can automatically subscribe when they are running it. AmphetaDesk is what I use and it's fantastic. "AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage. With thousands of channels available, AmphetaDesk can shave hours off your day..." If you want to look elsewhere, Google's Directory of NewsReaders is a good starting point. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

PayPal scam email Overnight I got 5 emails in a row from "service@paypal.com", Subject: Security Measures "Dear PayPal Customer Your As part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website, we are undertaking a period review of our member accounts. You are requested to visit our site by following the link given below :" DON'T LOGIN THERE. It will scrape your bank account or credit card info, I think. I went to the real PayPal.com - http://www.paypal.com and they have nothing on their front page about it. I then goog'd it with paypal email "Security Measures" and what came up was scary. Especially the first link, which includes cgi-bin/webscr?cmd which is also included in today's emails. But look at the rest of the links! permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?