Monthly Archives: October 2007

Spammers never stop amazing me. Their latest scheme to sell viagra (and others products): a Trojan Horse. But not an ordinary trojan horse, it is actually a very clever one that motivates its victims to decipher CAPTCHAs (Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) by displaying a model named Melissa, who will take articles of clothing off every time a CAPTCHA is typed in correctly. The deciphered CAPTCHA text is sent to a server in Israel, which in return sends back a picture of Melissa with less clothes.

I just finished writing 2 articles over at Digital Wise Guy. If you like gadgets (and you’re in the market for a new smartphone) head over there and check these articles out. Samsung’s New BlackJack2 – Officially announced by at&t. I summarize all the articles that have come out about the successor to at&t’s response to the Q. Hands on with the Tilt. I’m sad to report that I was disappointed at the Tilt when I got to play with …

Some are reporting that Tom (c’mon….you know who Tom is…your first Myspace friend) has always been lying about his age. On his profile, he claims to be 32, when he is allegedly 40. Yes. TOM isn’t in his cool 30′s….he’s in his boring 40′s!

[source: xkcd]

So this 24-year-old Nigerian Dude built a functional Helicopter using junk parts, because, and I’m paraphrasing here “it was easier to build a helicopter than a car”. A 133 hp Honda Civic engine powers it, its 12 feet long, has 4 Toyota car seats and flying it is as simple as: You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin,” he explains. …