In case you’re wondering what phishing (wikip) is all about How Stuff Works has a good article on it.
In case you’re wondering if you know what phishing is all about, McAfee has a pretty good test. Hint: don’t hurry through the examples, unless they’re obvious.
“Websites around the world are getting a new computerized visitor among the Googlebots and Yahoo web spiders: The taxman. A five-nation tax enforcement cartel has been quietly cracking down on suspected internet tax cheats, using a sophisticated web crawling program to monitor transactions on auction sites, and track operators of online shops, poker and porn sites.
The “Xenon” program — a reference to the super-bright auto headlights that light up dark places — was started in The Netherlands in 2004 by the Dutch equivalent of the IRS, Belastingdienst. It has since been expanded and enhanced by international group of tax authorities in Austria, Denmark, Britain and Canada, with the assistance of Amsterdam-based data mining firm Sentient Machine Research.“
Recommendations to David Arquette’s directorial debut The Tripper. An 8 in my book. His own words from a Fright exclusive interview:
“[…]I learned a lot from Wes as I have already mentioned but I also watched him closely. I love how he made a whole audience jump. I wanted to do that. I had been thinking about “The Tripper” for years. I grew up in L.A. when Reagan was the governor and president and my parents hated his politics. I remember the day I saw homeless people everywhere and my mom let me know it was because of his tax cuts to mental health. I also became a Grateful Dead parking lot crasher and made it up to an amazing concert Reggae on the River and it was there that I thought it would be great to see all these hippies massacred.“
“Michael Shanks’ Ten Things class at Stanford - which looks like a brilliant application of anthropological and archaeological thinking to design and technology - generated a very interesting project by William Choi and Antoine Sindhu analysing the architectures of control (psychological and physical) designed into both slot machines, and casinos themselves.“
Here’s a mini-bio/interview worth watching. Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) on CBC The Hour. Although I have been a fan since Fight Club, I didn’t know his personal history. Explanatory.
Also Chuck is very involved in work shops, and as always shares some good writing tips and anecdotes.
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