Category Archives: interesting

Making 5-star software with Notepad.

As an experiment, this guy opened Notepad, inserted several lines of text and saved the file as an EXE file before submitting it to some download sites. To his surprise, his “software” won some 5-star awards and even words of praise, effectively exposing how some of those download sites are really run. It’s a very interesting and humorous read.

How to make yourself ugly.

Check out Face of the Future for some seriously freaky fun. Here you can upload a picture of yourself and through the magic of Java, transform yourself into a baby, a child, a teenager or if you’re brave enough, a senior citizen. Seeing yourself with wrinkles all over your face is seriously spooky. Other transformations are available, including the above apeman I transformed myself into. Only my mother could love a face like this.

Something interesting on the Human Clock.

Next time you visit the Human Clock, take a moment to view the source code for the page as you’re viewing the clock. You will see the following text:

Welcome to the source code for this page. Not much here. The picture filenames all took a one-way trip to MD5 city to mask their true identity (if that is what you were looking for).

Since you are here though, we might as well tell you a joke since you took the time to look at the source code and you shouldn’t have to close this window empty-handed.

Following the text is a clean joke. The joke changes frequently, so be sure to view the page source again after the time changes. After a while you will have accumulated enough material to do your own stand-up comedy act.

Does Microsoft use warez?

Slow days at the office tend to yield to interesting discoveries.
I found some evidence online that suggests Microsoft’s employees might be using warez and pirated software on their computers. I present this evidence in two exhibits for your consideration.
Exhibit A has a screenshot from the documentation for a Microsoft program called DropMyRights. Check out the directory name in the screenshot.
Exhibit B is something you can try on your own computer if you happen to have Windows XP. It’s as easy as loading some WAV files into Notepad and observing some strange and suspicious text at the very bottom of the file. More details at the link.
It seems strange that the very software company launching an all-out war against software piracy has a few traitors in their midst.
Ah, the irony.