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Haha - love it. Seriously though - Facebook valued at $15 billion and people claiming there isn’t a tech bubble? The job market has gone nuts with designer and developers over the past few years and now the only candidates we get want North of $100k with less than a years experience “reskinning wordpress”. I was the *only* web developer when my IT crowd went into tertiary education; and now next to all of them after finishing their Computer Science degrees are switching across to web dev as it’s where the money is.
Quoteth the DVLabs:
At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air, winning the laptop and $10,000 from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative.
Three computers (A Macbook Air, a Vista box and a Ubuntu box) were set up in parallel at a hacker conference in Vancouver to challenge the hackers to have their way with them - with prize money and the boxes up for grabs as each machine gets compromised. The very amusing thing (almost ironic given Apples security claim to fame) was the first box to succumb… Thats right… the Macbook Air…
Being hacked at one of these things isn’t that big a deal; but being hacked before the Vista box went down? Thats got to be hard for the Apple apologists to swallow. I can just see the Mac vs PC parodies springing up on youtube :p
Stay tuned to DVLabs blog though to see who is next to fall out of the remaining Ubuntu and Vista.
“Male ‘World of Warcraft’ players are most likely still virgins”
So out of boredom I’ve thrown together a much much more insidious version of the “Rick-Roll’d” page. For those of you who don’t know what “Rick Rolling” is, it’s an Internet meme involving tricking somebody into visiting a link or site that contains the music video for “Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up” - an incredibly annoying song from the 80’s. A bunch of sites showed up with this video tied with some javascript to make it annoyingly move around the screen slowly.
So, I decided to modify the script a tad to make it move around much more and much faster 
Anyway, if your feeling cruel - free free to Rick Roll people by sending them to this link http://www.precariouspanther.net/amusing/… Just try avoid clicking on it yourself 
Yeck… Just stumbled on an entry on cracked.com with an entirely disgusting list of foods from around the world…. Baby mice wine??? Maggot cheese???
Incase your sick enough… here is the link
Haha had to post this video that I found on youtube today - a spoof of the Fiest - 1234 Apple iPod Nano advert that plays every 15 mins on tv at the moment. True though… Droves of people are still willing to stick with XP over upgrading to Vista (it’s hard for some to afford decent hardware), but all my Apple fanboy friends (save those who have shared bank accounts :p ) immediately have to purchase whatever the latest Apple product is as a matter of life or death at the risk of losing membership to their prestigious iClique.
Wait a second… which company was it again with the anti-competitive monopoly, price-gouges the market and leaves the consumer feeling like they have no control over endlessly forking over their savings for their next hit?
Seriously… Microsoft Fanboys, Apple fanboys and *insert company name here* fanboys all shit me (just as much as idiots obsessing over Holden Vs Ford). You’re all idiots. Companies exist for profit, none of them are altruistic (despite being the current marketing angle) and are only “innovative” when forced into it by competition. Want to be an iClone/MicroSlave? Lock yourself in for no other reason that feeling like you belong to some group that makes you special. Here’s an idea - if an iPod is the best mp3 player for what your looking for - buy it…. If Windows Vista or Ubuntu tickles your fancy, buy it/download + donate it. But don’t be a slave to these sleezy marketing staff simply because they have discovered the power of cultism. They all suck. That this is a newsflash to some of you is deeply disturbing.
Still, at least it provides Amy and myself with something to giggle over.