Monthly Archives: August 2006

Reuters introduces great new Font Size Control

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Web usability is increasingly synonymous with accessibility, including text size controls. Many, like myself, prefer to use the CTRL+PLUS and CTRL+MINUS key combos on the keyboard to increase the display size, this works great, but all the ads and other content tend to get messy when everything’s font size increases.

Reuters has been making strong gains in their web presence, introducing their new beta business section this week, and today I noticed their integration of a great text size control as seen in the left of the image below.

Reuters has been making strong gains in their web presence, introducing their new beta business section this week, and today I noticed their integration of a great text size control as seen in the left of the image below.

Hats off to Reuters, who’s really doing it right – even though a little late to the game – they are using all best practices.
Legless man v Great Wall | Reuters.com

Facial Monitoring underway – at an Airport Near You!

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The TSA, handling the security at our nations airports, are not known to be the best, brightest and overly skillful individuals – they are honest people, trying to make a living, and get government benefits. So, beyond that, no one from corporate America is beating down their door. So, the US Department of Homeland Security has been training our men and women of the TSA how to be “Behavior Dection” specialists, utilizing facial clues as provided in training. One of such images is shown here, published by a well known doctor, ahead of his time in the 1860s.

Facial Recognition Training (Facial Expressions) 5

According to the New York Times, the story goes like this…
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Northwest and WikiHow Collaborate on Post-Termination Manual

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Long known for it’s continuing series of prison surviving, detection avoidance and child torture, it seems WikiHow has collaborated with Northwest on a recent manual handed out to soon-to-be-terminated employees, offering great words of inspiration, like this tip about how to save money and how exactly to start “Preparing for a Financial Setback.”

* Shopping can be a much less expensive if you shop at a thrift store.
* Dating does not need to be expensive when you can take “a date for a walk along the beach or in the woods.”
* What better way that to get something for free – there is no need to be “shy about pulling something you like, out of the trash.”

Yes, I said trash.
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Your 'Digital Dirt' can Hurt You

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While most of us use the internet for valid purposes and aren’t off trying to lure children, or purchase slaves, or trade in illegal imagery. But there are so many sites that we have signed up to over the years, it’s nearly impossible for anyone to remember them. Just recently, a business associate found a bizzare profile that was a hodge-podge of information they had seemingly cobbled together from different period of time – and I have no idea what the login or anything is.

But that’s nothing…

A recent survey conducted by ExecuNet revealed that 75% of 102 executive recruiters perform routine online searches as part of their background checks on prospective hires. The survey also points out that more than 25% of these recruiters have rejected candidates based on background information that was discovered via searches on Google, Yahoo, and Dogpile, as well as such social networking sites as Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, and Xanga.

The “incriminating” personal information – commonly referred to as “online personas” or “digital dirt” – found through informal, online searches is rapidly becoming a way for employers to screen job seekers.

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Madonna Under Surveilance in Duesseldorf

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This is the first concert in the recent years of Madonna that I haven’t gone to see the concert. Did I want to? Kinda, but I mean, she is incredible. But, according to reports,

prosecutors plan to keep an eye on Madonna’s weekend concert in Duesseldorf to see if the pop diva repeats the mock crucifixion scene that has drawn fire from religious leaders.

Johannes Mocken, a spokesman for prosecutors in Duesseldorf, said Tuesday that a repeat of that scene during Sunday’s concert could be construed as insulting religious beliefs.

I don’t know if I have seen any Madonna show lacking of an overt amount of religious symbols, crosses and the like… but she’s more mature now…. Continue reading →

Laptop Most Wanted in South Florida – The search goes Cold

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The Feds are quite embarrassed, again, after another notebook containing the sensitive personal information of nearly 133,000 Floridians was stolen from an agents car, and federal authorities didn’t find out as long as ten days after the alleged event.

According to wire reports, two weeks prior to the theft the notebook was ‘decrypted.’ Because of a major computer network upgrade, the unit was never re-encrypted. First of all, why was it decrypted? There is absolutely, positively no reason for it to be once it’s done, it’s done. There is no visual or procedural variances to the user – they would never know, it simply just works and no connection to any centralized network server for configuration or other tasks is necessary. But again, the burning question is why was it decrypted. Continue reading →

Cellular Tracking and Privacy

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Cellular Privacy. We all are concerned about it, but what does it really mean, and what can it really be used for. Oh sure, your girlfriend could potentially kill you for having detailed billing and your phone bill laying around. I can hear the shrieks now, but let’s talk about serious data that violates your privacy. Call records, of course are one, but there are others that are much more disturbing.
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We have all heard how the government is potentially gathering more and more data on it’s citizens and you all need to realize that it is possible to track an individual’s movements via their cell-phone, even if you can’t pinpoint their exact location. Continue reading →

VideoExposé – Conspiracy Surfing Efficiency

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Yet again a proud father, I am happy to announce that VideoExposé is now online, providing a quick resource to discover the latest conspiracy video or top video of the day – quickly and conveniently.
Video ExposÃÆ'© - (c)2006 OY9 Media Network
If you are like me, you can spend hours on Google Video, You Tube and the like, but the problem becomes watching the same video, or a portion of the same video, over again accidentally. There is no “filtering” yet employed for the listings of these clips on the major sites, and many get listed many, many times. Some in complete form, others snippets driving home specific points.

VideoExposé cuts through all that clutter, providing you topically arranged directories of the top related categories: 9-11 Conspiracy, The Illuminati, JFK, Religions like Scientology, and what kind of site would it be if there weren’t any exposés on celebrities?
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