Posted 12:53 PM by Mike Skallas
When nurses, accountants, and marketers form a vigilante posse. I'm suddenly a lot more concerned about someone faking my identity.[via metafilter]

"Listen, I can get into his Yahoo mail account and his PayPal account (want an instant refund?) right now if I have his mother's maiden name, last 4 digits of his SSN," one man wrote on the site. "I could also get more info if someone could get the first 12 numbers of his Visa card."

Later postings asked members if they knew anyone -- "a jeweler or a mortgage broker or real estate agent or banker" --who could run a credit report on the seller. One message suggested that they lie to obtain his birth certificate, which, they were told, only family members can request.

"Can't you tell them that we are doing genealogical research and just want to get parental names and maiden names and DOBs???," another asked.

The group even attempted to obtain the seller's driver's license number from an Arizona transportation Web site using the personal information they already had gathered to assume his identity online. They had all the necessary details except for his eye color.

The uberman sleep cycle. I really want to meet someone on this sleep cycle. I'm sure its possible, but in today's information rich culture I think its just a matter of time before you would eventually lose your mind. Leonardo didn't have 100+ cable channels, the internet, and a frenzied media machine to deal with 24/7. Hopefully, the guy or gal doing this isn't in it just for the extra TV time. [link]

Sonic Youth Tour Diary from 1987. [via misterpants]

How to seem smarter. [its working for Bush]

Posted 8:38 PM by Mike Skallas
The soon to be patented Skallas Wearable ATM. So you're going out and need some money? Put this on and watch all those expensive banking fees turn into a small fortune. Set the time-lock harness for 4 hours (only way to remove it would be to either destroy the machine or dismemeber your corpse) and go outside a club, sports event, or wherever people need money and where you can provide a cheaper ATM experience. The machines in Wrigley field want at least $2 per transaction, set yourself to $1.50 and start hollaring, "Get your money here! Money here! $1.50 fee!" Glow-in-the-dark and child-sized models coming soon. Email me about pricing, fees, and sizing information.

Posted 10:07 AM by Mike Skallas
Audiogalaxy spyware has been copying your information from web forms and sending it to marketers. Further proof that there's no privacy on the internet. Worse yet, even encrypted information like credit card numbers and passwords aren't exempt from the VX2 spyware. The newest definitions of Ad Aware [you're using refupdate and scanning right?] detect it but can't uninstall it. You can find uninstall instructions and info here. [link]

The last remaining Dymaxion car. [museum trip] [more info here with great quicktime movie]

I would add a few things that I learned: for instance, this vehicle #2 was found serving as a chicken coop, and naturally the interior was in very bad shape. This is why the windows are, at the time of this writing, painted opaque from the inside. A difficulty the good people at the National Auto Museum face in restoring the interior is the paucity of photos and plans of the interior.

Tell the DoJ what you think about the Microsoft settlement. You've got until Monday to voice your thoughts about Bad Bill. [via metafilter]

Glen Baxter. Kind of like Gary Larson with less animals and more acid. [link]

New contender for the world's longest tongue. When will this madness end? [via forteantimes.com] Amusing quote from current recordholder:

German schoolgirl Annika Irmler, 12, the current world champion, can lick ice cream from the bottom of a cornet, and said after getting into the Guinness Book of Records in September: "My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue I could make a lot of money with it one day."

Living with the last name 'Batman' [link]

Batman has been with Cardinal Health System for more than a year and had been acting president of BMH since Mitch Carson's departure in August. Batman will remain executive vice president and chief operating officer of CHS.

Posted 9:55 AM by Mike Skallas
City cracks down on cybercafes after quake frags start becoming real life frags.[link]

The city's crackdown stems from a series of criminal incidents, mostly in parking areas surrounding the cafes. The most serious was Dec. 30, when a 20-year-old was stabbed to death outside the PC Cafe on Garden Grove Boulevard. A 21-year-old suspected gang member has been charged with murder.

"After the stabbing incident, it dawned on us that we really haven't taken a hard look at these places," said Garden Grove Mayor Bruce Broadwater.

Johnny Oh, owner of the PC Cafe, said he can easily comply with most of the proposed ordinances. He installed security cameras and hired a security guard after the stabbing.

Would you pay $1.50 for an eBook comic? [link]

French Canadian snack foods. [link]

Very cool junk clock art. [via boingboing.net]

Little three-wheeled cars you'd love to own. [link]

The clean couch defecit. [via metafilter] [more mcsweeneys]

Post-apocalyptic hot tub? [photo]