Mental Droppings

And, that's all I've got to say about that!

Until now, most people would have believed that only living, breathing HUMANS could make it to fame and fortune.  Huh!  In Japan, a new pop star is selling out venues and she isn't living or breathing  at all - because she's a hologram.  Her name is Hatsunhe Miku and she's selling out concert halls. 

In some ways, I guess this is no different that paying good money to go see a movie length cartoon in the theatres, where the actors are nothing more than mere figments of a creative mind. 

Check out one of her performances below 

 

That's the truth....

The Governors office announced this afternoon that it will be laying off 50 employees early next month to adjust for budget shortfalls.

The layoffs are spread among eight departments.  The employees will be work their last day on Friday and receive up to ten days of paid leave before the layoffs take effect on October 8.

Read more here

Richard Smith is tired of the look of our greenbacks and is trying to do something about it.  He's holding a currency redesign project and some of the entries are quite impressive. 

In particular, I like the vertical design submitted by Gardiner Moody shown below.  You can check out all the submissions here.

 

 

The spear phishers are still at it.  Here's the latest attempt to trick our users into sending their username and password back to the phishers:

Dear Staff/Student

This message is from Web-mail IT Service messaging center to all subscribers/web-mail users. We are currently upgrading our database and e-mail center due to an unusual activities identified in our email system. We are deleting all unused Web-mail Accounts. You are required to verify your web-mail account by confirming your Web-mail identity. This will prevent your Web-mail account from been closed during this exercise.

 

In order to confirm you Web-Mail identity, you are to provide the following data;

First Name:
Last Name:
User-name/ID:
Password:
Date of Birth:

*Important*

Please provide all these information completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.

We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners and this is the last notice/verification exercise.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your Web-mail Account. We apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards,
IT Service

Based on the things I've seen over the years, it appears that Indiana has a larger population of idiots than would be expected based on it's overall population. 

Most of us woke up to find frost on our windshields this morning, leaving us to either start our vehicles and run the defrost on high or resort to scraping.  However, it would seem that not everyone thinks that clearing their windshield of frost is a prerequisite to getting in and driving down the road.

This morning as I'm driving up fifth street taking my son to school I noticed a car coming towards me in which I can't see in the front windshield.  As the  vehicle gets closer, I notice that the driver of this vehicle has scraped a 6" X 6" (roughly) area on his windshield and is using this as a portal through which he is driving. 

Law enforcement should have the right to immediately and permanently revoke someone's driving privileges based on the fact that they're too stupid to exercise the right without putting others in harms way. 

This appears to be a chinese version of America's Got Talent.  This is Lin Yu Chun who sings Whitney Houston's "I will always love you", and hits every note.

 

It turns out, there really is something at the end of a rainbow.  But, it aint gold...

All I have to say about this is "what the heck?!?".  If you're so easily offended by your pets's behind, maybe you should stick with pets like turtles and fish.

Also, what keeps this thing in place, a cork?

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