NexusTrade is still pre-Beta. It'll be a used book exchange for students.

http://www.nexustrade.com/

Jeff Nolan has some great advice for everybody; Let's Be Safe Out There. Remember, it's halloween and MY kids are walking the streets. On the other hand, I'm not too impressed with his secondary advice ;-)

Just because someone doesn’t answer the door, it doesn’t mean no one is home. Make sure to break a window and toss in a Molotov cocktail. If there is anyone in there, he’ll soon come out. 

http://www.imao.us/archives/006536.html

Oleg Dulin, author of I Would Rather be Blogging, is expanding his LinkedIn network. He's looking for software devs and managers who live and work in NYC. And don't forget to link me up as well. Anybody, from anywhere, for any reason.

http://www.iwouldratherbeblogging.com/2006/10/i_am_expanding_.html

Price: $24.95 USD

I'm confused on why I'm not the author of this book and wonder if I have a trademark lawsuit on my hands. In fact, why did I name this blog iBLOGthere4iM and not BecauseIsaidSO? My favorite saying. Just ask my kids.

http://www.r-mail.org/shopping.aspx/0060598786

NASA: Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/oct/HQ_06343_HST_announcement.html

Why you must know who is on the other side of the line before you do something like this.

... and never ask for directions. It's a new world.

Gluttonous Stars are "Stars fattened by stealing matter from their neighbours get trapped in the centre of the star clusters they dwell in."

click here for pic

Thanks to Joseph A Nagy Jr for the link [play tag with me].

Got my first entry into the KBCafe homepage re-design contest from Joe Critchley. This looks pretty awesome. I'll give it a few more days to see if I get any other serious entries. In the meanwhile, check-it-out and tell me what you think.

http://www.netterbox.co.uk/kbcafe/

Dell's supreme ad.

Rumour is that JibJab did this for Dell.

John Lam: At some point in your life, you realize that you have an opportunity to affect some real change in the world.

Randy: What every geek says when they accept that offer from Microsoft.

I'm working on a better homepage for the KBCafe Blog Network. I've put up the initial content and now I'm looking for some artscies-fartscies to give it some style. Send in HTML and I'll pick a few and we'll have one of them vote thingies. Design this page -> www.kbcafe.com. You have to keep the content pretty much as-is, although a little creative leverage is given. Winner gets $25 USD at Amazon.

from Jay Leno.

NewScientistSpace: Researchers now say that one of the landers’ experiments was not sensitive enough to find organic molecules in the soil, despite signs of life shown by another test.

Thanks to Sterling for the link [play tag with me].

Courtesy Google and Lifehacker comes the perfect Napster. Go to Google and type...

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Supertramp"

...changing the band name to that of your favorite band. Start downloading before all these kids get DMCA notices.

You know a community is prime time when they have their own dating service.

http://www.lonelybloggers.com/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

This is a Mac vs. PC parody commercial about Christianity. I'm a disillusioned Christian, but I was hoping for something funny. Still, it's worth a blog entry.

To my darling husband,

Before you return from your overseas trip I just want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pick up truck when I turned into the  driveway. Fortunately not to bad and I really didn't get hurt, so please don't worry too much about me.

I was coming home from Wal-Mart, and when I turned into the driveway I accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. The garage door is slightly bent but the pick up fortunately came to a halt when it bumped into your car.

I am really sorry but I know with your kind hearted personality you will forgive me. You know how much I love you and care for you my sweet heart.

I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again.

Your loving wife.

XXX

click here for attached image of Crash

Thanks John!

Thanks Kevin!

Ten things to stop global warming
Originally uploaded by karibien.

Visit Climatecrisis.net for more info | download the .pdf.

Simbad is a Liger, a cross-bread of a female tiger and male lion. Ligers are much larger than their parents, weighing 900 lbs.

http://www.badchix.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=43

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Very Funny Ads is a website dedicated to very funny ads.

http://veryfunnyads.com/

Nextfest / Taste / Navy Pier
Originally uploaded by bobslav.

A Moller Skycar is selling on eBay for $2,500,000, which is still below the reserve. I'm looking for video of the Skycar in action. The company is selling a prototype in order to fund itself.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

The Miller Lite Man Law commercials are awesome!

http://www.manlaws.com/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

CBS: Children at the Willett Elementary School in Attleboro are not allowed to play tag, touch football or any games involving contact during recess.
Prinicpal Gaylene Heppe cited the safety risks and the school's liability in case of injury as reasons for the recess ban.

Randy: The kids are bored. The kids bring guns to school. The kids are bored to death.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

OK, this one is obviously fake, but it's way funny!

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

I'm giving these affirmations 6 months.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/affirmations.html

Another great Star Wars fan film.

Peter Dawson: Oh well, Randy is 100% right on this.

http://peterdawson.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/bloggers_are_su.html

AP: Canadian software maker Open Text Corp., which acquired smaller rival Hummingbird Ltd. earlier this month, said Monday it plans to cut 15 percent of the combined company's work force, or about 525 out of 3,500 jobs.

Randy: So just how unique am I? Am I 1 of 525? Or am I 1 of 2975? I guess we'll find out.

I gotta say, this Edelman-Walmarting fiasco is about the stupidest I've seen bloggers act to date. Trying to make up an issue where there is none. Of course, Edelman and Walmart are apologetic because they don't want to inferiorated the blogosphere. Anybody dumb enough to think this wasn't sponsored by Walmart should not be blogging because their I.Q. doesn't merit that responsibility. I'm gonna bet 99% of the bloggers commenting didn't know about the campaign until they saw the lynch mob. Common dumb asses. Wake up!

Digg it! Splicemusic, an online audio sequencer+community! Share songs and samples!

http://splicemusic.com/music

http://www.vidlit.com/cbs/

Check out this sexy dude. I created two dozen imeem accounts and voted for him with each account. I suggest you do the same before I get my hate on you.

Red Nano
Originally uploaded by evadedave.

Red products are those that give a portion of their revenues or earnings to fight AIDS in Africa. I'm thinking about getting a Red American Express. There's also a Red iPod. I think this is important. So reblog this. No source link required. They also have Website banners.

http://www.joinred.com/

Another great Star Wars fan short film.

Episode 1 of Chad Vader, Nightshift Manager. Life is hard when you're Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store. This is awesome!

All four episodes.

Episode 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0
Episode 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPVlljVWqBg
Episode 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh8u6nTx8wY
Episode 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogIqayRDr4w

http://www.splu.net/

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Thumbelina is the world's smallest horse.
Originally uploaded by se1danp.

17 inches high. Read More.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

I was just chatting with Scott Kingery of TechLifeBlogged about how I get news faster than TechMeme and the like. My answer is, of course, Gtalk. People are constantly sending me links via Gtalk (userid:randymorin), Skype (userid:randymorin), MSN (userid:randy@kbcafe.com) and del.icio.us (for:randymorin). Whatever network you are on, add me as a friend and start sending me crap. Please!

If the news is current and it's urgent I post it immediately, then send me a link via Gtalk or Skype, I'm almost always online. If the news can wait, then send me the link via del.icio.us for:randymorin tag. I send a free book to the person who tags me the best link every month. It's a game I call Play Tag with Me.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

These guys have created an intuitive sketching design environment. Very cool!

This episode was too cool!

Watch the entire episode online.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Eric Chien: Over the weekend, the Google blog was hacked and someone made a fake post stating Google was discontinuing their Click-To-Call service. A few weeks ago, Randy Charles Morin's blog was reportedly hacked using a new unknown and unpatched exploit by Jason Schramm known as the Host Overflow Application eXception. Now, some people are putting one and one together and assuming Google's blog was hacked via the unpatched Host Overflow Application eXception.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html

Blog Network List current values my little KBCafe blog network at $926,010. They only include 13 of my more than 100 blogs, although they are counting the most valuable of those 100+ blogs. They rank KBCafe 25th of the 80 blog networks they are tracking. Here's the top 10.

Rank Network Name Sites Value

1 9rules 212 $72,789,400
2 Weblogs, Inc. 95 $44,491,400
3 Pajamas Media 89 $32,597,200
4 Gawker Media 13 $31,099,200
5 Web 2.0 Workgroup 29 $24,193,100
6 b5media 159 $15,131,800
7 Techcrunch Network 9 $8,055,720
8 Project DU 30 $7,898,180
9 Gothamist LLC 16 $5,340,930
10 Niche Blogs Network 19 $4,443,150

http://www.blognetworklist.com/networksbyvalue.php

Coolz0r is spreading link love. Me too! Sorry, if I left you out.

Near misses of guys getting hit by cars, women and bullets (ok, the bullets hit).

Jim and Tony, Ponicelle brother's family business, Brake in and Entering Service.

Thanks Coolz0r! [play tag with me]

Here's step-by-step instructions on making me unsubscribe from your blog.

1. Read an article on blog A.
2. Digg the article on blog A.
3. Post the same news on your blog and fail to link to any sources.

If you do it in that order, then I know where you sourced the news and I know you didn't link to the source. That's just pathetic. Unsubscribe. The thing is, people know exactly who I'm talking about and they continue to pander to these bloggers. Give up! It doesn't matter if he's an a-lister. He just proved he's never gonna link to you.

Jason Schramm has created a Wordpress patch for the Host Overflow Application eXception.

http://www.jasonblogs.com/2006/10/03/patch-for-host-overflow-application-exception/

Alec Saunders: IMSafer is an unobtrusive IM monitoring tool for parents.  It lurks in the background on any PC, discretely monitoring IM traffic, and uses lexical analysis techniques — the same techniques used by law enforcement – to look for the telltale signs that your child is having an exchange with a sexual predator. If it finds those signs, it alerts you, the adult, so you can intervene before it’s too late.

http://www.imsafer.com/

Digg this story please! This is important. And pass it onto 10 friends and ask them to Digg it too! Or I hate you.

http://tech.netscape.com/story/2006/10/02/hacking-into-blogs-is-your-blog-safe

A Washington Post article this weekend stated...

Bloggers are "completely unregulated in that there's no fact checking,"

Mark Pincus, one of the sources in the article, wrote a response I got screwed. Don Park then did no fact checking and posted his completely uninformed opinion on the subject, highlighted with the following quote...

Mark, I am disappointed by your reckless blogging behavior.

In the end, bloggers are proving by themselves that the Washington Post article is correct. It's pretty obvious from Don's reply that he didn't bother reading the said blog entries on Mark's blog. Contrary to Don's thought, it was the cheater cover-up of the situation that led to the Google juice, not the original article. In fact, that seems pretty clear in the Washington Post article. Additional, I'm confused on why people shouldn't be held accountable for their past actions? The cheating is a sign that the cheater lacks character.

I've been able to h4ck 5 blogs today with the Host Overflow Application eXception vulnerability in RSS and discovered by Jason.

1. http://www.jasonblogs.com/2006/10/02/host-overflow-application-exception/
2. http://saunderslog.com/2006/10/02/2767/
3. http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=573
4. http://www.techlifeweb.com/2006/10/host-overflow-application-exception.html
5. http://dannyayers.com/2006/10/02/pwned

The blog I was not able to h4ck was (name removed) blog, as (name removed) has written a Typepad widget called Shield that protects her blogs from the h4ck. I'm unsure how this widget detects the invasion, as the attack resembles a normal blog post made by the blog authors themselves.

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story on blogger ethics. In the story, they acknowledge the blogger's (Mark Pincus) reporting was indeed correct, but then suggest that bloggers have a lack of quality. Some quotes follow.

"This is a cautionary tale that things live on in cyberspace regardless of their accuracy."

"But unlike the traditional media, it's completely unregulated in that there's no fact checking, no editing. It has all the potential for creating a lot of damage to someone's or something's reputation very quickly, and it's almost impossible to eliminate it. Any unsubstantiated rumor has a very good chance of getting out there."

The next paragraph is the highlight of Mark's follow-up blog post.

Mark Pincus: wow. one might think i made the whole murry story up. i guess the point of this story is that business people are now in danger of bloggers fabricating stories that ruin their sterling reputations.  let me help mr's collender and o'hara rest better. there are plenty of real stories out there about business people acting unethically. we can barely talk about all of those. so we really dont have time to make up stories attacking innocent victims.

http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2006/10/i_got_skewered_.html

This is one of my favorite commercials of all time. You remember it! Wassup! The lame version.

There's a collection of Darth Vader playing Violin videos on YouTube. The videos are from Victoria, BC, Canada.

More...

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7yG5CX5hg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2i3e3LhZQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFrE4Wq9nR4
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quoNMafq3aU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN6iHRnlTEw

PR: Open Text [cut] today announced that they have closed the transaction pursuant to which all of Hummingbird's common shares were acquired.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2006/02/c3911.html

OK, I figured out how Jason h4x0red my blog. It's actually pretty easy and would work on any blog that supports RSS and MetaWeblogAPI, but there's no reason why this technique couldn't be ported to blogs that support other syndication and publishing technologies. Basically, Jason took advantage of an RSS unchecked buffer problem to post to my blog using MetaWeblogAPI. You can do the same by simply finding out what IP address a subscriber of yours is using and stuffing the buffer overflow code into your own RSS feed. When the subscribers native RSS reader polls your feed, the buffer overflow code causes blog entries to be posted on his blog. I'm not going to give specific samples because I don't want people exploiting this problem, which exist on any desktop with Firefox, IE7 or other native RSS reader. But, what I will do is cause the following code to be posted on several blogs across the blogosphere as proof that the technique works.

This blog h4x0red using Host Overflow Application eXception.