Fox walking is the "proper" way to walk:

http://www.writerbynature.com/2006/04/12/survival-technique-learn-to-fox-walk/

--K

Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail.

Not really true. Good engineering involves thinking about both.

In any case this is just another way of referring to the mindset of a hacker, whose instincts and motivation are to determine how things work and by extension how they might be exploited.

--K

On a related note, I made a web site that generates random fake James Bond movie titles and plots:

http://www.kmoser.com/jamesbond/

The titles and plots are random remixes of existing Bond titles and plots.

--K

Muvico has been doing this for years: http://www.muvico.com. I don't think you can reserve the premium services online but their web site does show what they offer.

--K

I type quickly, with what I would consider medium pressure, and I have experienced something similar on my Micron keyboard that is about 7 years old. The down-arrow key looks somewhat melted, and the left-shift key has a hole worn right through it.

I'm positive this has less to do with frequency of use or finger pressure than with some chemical reaction, since the plastic on the left-shift key (the one with the hole) is fairly thick. Also, keys that get just as much (if not more) use, such as the spacebar and letters, show virtually no sign of wear.

However, the labels on some of the keys have worn off, making it hard for a non-touch-typist to find which keys are which. Keys hit hardest by this syndrome are A, S, D, F, L, C, V, N, M, comma, period, slash, and Ctrl.

--K

Sounds a lot like A.P. Herbert's Misleading Cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._Herbert#.22Misleading_Cases.22

On a similar topic: CT scans of cars and motorcycles.

Hugo Drax wanted for questioning.

Most of the links are dead but you can find more whimsical criminal nicknames here: http://www.kmoser.com/aliases.htm

In the first Gulf War, when Saddam lit dozens of oil wells on fire, firefighters extinguished them by creating an explosion that blew out the flame without reigniting the oil. Similar concept, but not new.

Here's a more practical commercial version that survived well into the 1980s and which my father actually used in his business:

http://www.kmoser.com/rotary-phone/

--K

Realcatholicmen wrote: "Someone should make a "phish spammer" program..."

I did this a couple of years ago; it's called "Phish Phood" and so far I have used it to "pheed" bogus data to over 550 phishing sites. I haven't released it for public use because it requires occasional manual intervention, but more importantly it could be used maliciously by a spammer who wants to, say, fill in a form repeatedly with spam for their web site.

Realcatholicmen wrote: 1. I've never seen a phishing website employ "bot protection"."

Very few of them do. Some of them use various methods to ensure they're not being spammed by the same person. I won't go into details, but let's just say the majority aren't that smart.

You'd also be surprised what you can find by altering URLs of phishing sites. They aren't always so good at hiding things.

Unfortunately the red umbrella logo reminds me of the logo for Citigroup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup

Looks like a new variation on these old themes:

http://www.kmoser.com/commodore/?id=capture
http://www.kmoser.com/commodore/?id=ambush

YouTube doesn't allow gratuitous violence? I posted a video nearly 9 month ago titled "Gratuitous Violence" and they haven't pulled it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfjr8G89DsM

Many of the inflatable decoys were made by the Patten Company:

http://www.pattencompany.com/pt_history.htm

They look like a stiff breeze could twist them enough to get caught in your chain. Oh, the irony.

Here are some excerpts from a 1981(2?) issue of Turtle News, from the Young Peoples' LOGO Association (YPLA).