links for 2006-05-10

GameSpy: World of Warcraft Level 60 Quest Guide (tags: wow games worldofwarcraft guide warcraft gaming howto article entertainment mmorpg quest tutorials tips videogames Walkthroughs web) WoW Grind Spots A great listing of spots to grind. Much needed for level advancing in WoW. (tags: guide reference WoW howto)

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80’s Hit TV Show Coming to the Big Screen

Well it looks like the hit TV series that starred David Hasselhoff before he went on to Baywatch, Knight Ridder, is headed to the big screen. CNN: Series creator Glen A. Larson will write and executive produce the Weinstein Co. project, which he anticipates will begin production next year. The project had previously been in…

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Mt. St. Helens Building Something Big

You’ve gotta see these photos from the Johnson Ridge Obervatory that are posted on the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. Evidently a new dome is forming pushing up almost a meter each day and is now visible above the lip of the crater. APOD: A new rock slab is growing at more than one…

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Trojan Targets WoW Players. Wants Your Blue Items

A new trojan has been discovered that specifically targets players of the MMORPG World of Warcraft. The trojan transfers account passwords and information to another account where items can then be traded and sold on gray market sites for money and in-game gold. Information Week: MicroWorld, an Indian-based anti-virus and security software maker with offices…

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links for 2006-05-03

Using the XML HTTP Request object A very useful example of an XMLHttpRequest script. (tags: application design developer howto javascript xmlhttprequest Programming XML web http AJAX webdev xhtml) Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPasties – Step #1 to Step #4 An ajax tutorial that shows you how to dynamically update a city…

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Microsoft Hopes To Curb Piracy With New Campaign

Well it looks like Microsoft is taking further steps to curb piracy this time by using nagware. M&C Tech: Microsoft is enhancing its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) test tool to detect PCs that are not using a properly licensed version of the Windows operating system via an update patch. Alerts will be sent directly to…

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The New Age of Spam

If you’re a blogger you may have noticed spammers have figured out a way around us blocking them by keyword, don’t use keywords. Most of the new spam looks like a real comment until you look at the person commentings link or the links in the body of the comment. Almost all the time it…

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links for 2006-04-25

best-of-craigslist A most enlightening, enjoyable, hilarious, scoffable, risque collection of posts from Craigslist. (tags: funny humor fun craigslist craiglist blog)

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