What is the appeal of this post for trackback spammers? Particularly in light of the fact that all their trackbacks are automagically refused (thanks rakaz). The previous post targetted I could understand, it was about Jenna Jameson's biography, but what does cheap levitra, weight loss and the wacom tablet have to do with Windows Vista...

“Three dancers at a strip club are facing charges today for allegedly performing lewd acts onstage.

Police said that three nude dancers "crossed the line" when they performed sex acts on patrons while strip club employees egged them on, according to Charleston's Post & Courier.

The arrests culminated a two-month investigation using undercover officers at the Landing Strip club on Remount Road, a police spokesman said. Police began the investigation after receiving complaints about purported illegal activity going on at the club.”

AVN :: Articles - Strippers Arrested for Lewd Behavior

“Gentoo has issued an update for horde. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.”

Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for horde

“It's no secret that Posterwire.com is a big fan of the previous Saw one-sheets. Continuing with a variation of the "body parts" poster theme from the previous Saw campaigns, this "Meth Mouth" teaser poster key art incorporates the three (remaining) teeth of the victim as the numeral stand-in for the "3" in the Saw 3 poster title treatment.”

Saw 3 Poster << Posterwire.com

Messing with Vista and its lack of SATA drivers reminded me that I do in fact have room for four SATA drives in this rig. I didn't get one when I set it up because a) I had several spare IDEs and b) they seemed expensive at the time. However, prices seem to have dropped now, and I picked up a 250MiB drive for a mere £60.

But what to install..? I already had WinXP and Vista dual-booting, so how about Linux? I tried Fedora Core 5 because I had the DVD around from upgrading my existing Fedora box.

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The Fox I mentioned earlier came back last night. It was wandering around... caterwauling. Looking for a mate, maybe. I tried to take a pic, but all I got was this:

“INT. CAVE - DAY

SAWYER is washing his bare chest in front of a mirror that came from somewhere.

KATE, HURLEY and JACK enter the cave.

SAWYER
Hey there, Freckles. Hey there, Jumbo. Hey there, Rex Morgan, M.D.”

How to Write Screenplays. Badly.: On Writing for Television

I'm pottering about with Ubuntu when I hear a low crunching noise through the open window. Turns out there's a fox munching on a takeaway meal someone's thrown in the bushes below my window.

I grabbed my camera, but the battery was dead and by the time I'd replaced it, the fox had nonchalantly wandered off, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

“The Football League have won their professional negligence claim against their former legal advisers at the High Court on Friday - but were awarded just £4 damages instead of the £150million they were seeking.”

ESPNsoccernet - England - Football League wins £4 damages over TV deal

“BANGKOK (Reuters) - Buddhist monks in Thailand are too tired to receive early morning alms because they are staying up late to watch the World Cup, a Thai newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The Nation quoted a woman in the northern city of Chiang Mai who said her birthday celebrations were ruined because monks at a city temple were not awake to receive her morning offering, a mandatory religious ritual in the predominately Buddhist country.

The woman, who declined to be identified, said she was told by a senior monk that most of his young colleagues were still asleep because they had stayed up to watch the games which can go on well past midnight.”

Soccer-mad Thai monks too tired to take alms - Yahoo! News

Vista is now back on the partition, if only because deleting it doesn't remove the new bootloader, and only Vista comes with the command line utility that allows you to edit it and set Win XP as the default.

So I messed around a bit more, before I had to switch back to XP to fix a little stuff at work (cygwin doesn't seem to work under Vista, so I can't ssh to the servers to run VNC). Still haven't got the Audigy drivers working, though random dribblings on the Intarwebs indicate there is some way of doing it... though Bill alone knows which ones will work for me.

I get the feeling there's some sort of sexist Vista-celebrity comparison that could be made, along the lines of Vista being the Pamela Anderson of operating systems: from a distance it looks gorgeous, but up close you can see how many man-hours have been put into achieving this - and if you actually use it, you get Hep C...

(I posted that before seeing this...)

Interesting, if flowery, piece on some of the reasons why Windows Vista has slipped so much (I tried it yesterday - the partition has already been re-purposed, largely down to the very annoying UAC system):

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So, they've remade the Wicker Man... question is, will the ending be the same in these enlightened times..?

Apple - Trailers - The Wicker Man - Trailer 1

Douglas Coupland's new book “JPod” would have dropped through my letter box yesterday were it not for the fact it's too large to fit, so the postie just left it outside the door. I finished it this morning.

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I've been reading “Concerned, the hλlf-life and death of Gordon Frohman” for a bit now, and it is Good. But this one knocks it out of the park:

Concerned #157: Sunday, June 4, 2006

So... I have the RSS feed for Apple's movie trailers in the ol' Bloglines. And up pops the trailer for Barnyard which looks like yet another in the increasingly long line of CGI comedies - which isn't in itself bad, per se. And I make no criticism or otherwise based on the trailer... but I do note one oddity: the main cast of cows, named Otis, Eddie, Budd, Ben and Igg and played by Kevin, Scott, John, Sam and Maurice are, well, cows... with udders...

(Also, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest looks r0xorz.)