Archive | July, 2009

Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability

Overall, these results suggest that bloggers do expect a degree of ethical behavior from the community at large, and they practice (or at least they believe they practice) ethical behavior at an even higher rate. There are a number of ways to reconcile this with the poor reception that the proposed formal code of behavior received. It’s possible that the loudest voices on the issue came from a minority within the blogging community, or their were objections to the specific aspects of this code. But the results of the survey suggest that people won’t necessarily demand that the rest of the community adheres to the standards they set for themselves.

via Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability – Ars Technica.

Accountability? What’s that? Screw accountability, I say.

Now attribution – THAT’S important. In Uni you learn that plagiarism is bad – to this end, linking back to where you found the original story is seen as proper ethics.

As I’ve always said – credit where credit is due, gentlemen.

Wrong Number Generator

wrong number generator

Feel like driving someone insane in a malicious way? Come on, everybody knows at least one person they’d like to drive bonkers. This Wrong Number Generator is a brilliantly simple way to do just that.

How’s it work? Well, you plug your victim’s phone into one end and run the other end into the wall jack and leave it to do its business. It’ll then intercept any numbers that they dial and replace them with wrong numbers. This will be annoying. But the real coup? It’ll let the right numbers through 25% of the time, making them think that the problem is with their fat, inaccurate fingers, not with the phone itself. All the while you can sit back knowing that you’re causing lots of stress for your poor victim. Sweet.

via VISGORIA.

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