Netcraft reports that several web hosting companies have disabled Movable Type comments because comment spam is putting a serious drain on their servers. The ensuing Slashdot discussion speculates on the problems within MT that allow this to happen, and it has some good ideas for ways to fix (or switch) your blog to secure it. (As for me, I haven’t had any spams since I implemented the “More than five links” rule. This doesn’t happen til after they post, though, which means it’s still tying up my server a bit. Now I’m thinking about a blacklist that would keep them from accessing the script…)

Gingerbread Laptop and CPU. That’s pretty neat! I’ve never tried making any gingerbread sculptures before. (Mostly because I know the Snook would insist on making all the gingerbread from scratch, and I’d get bored and lazy halfway through and quit.) Has anybody else ever done it? Is it really hard? (Link courtesy of not martha.)

Since we got camera phones a few months ago, our biggest use of them has been taking pictures of ourselves and sending them to each other. It was especially helpful at Halloween when we were both costume-shopping separately. Anyway, I just cleaned it off and found a couple funny pictures of me. (Just mouseover for the captions.)

It’s all Greek.
The Snook: “It’s easy. Quicktime is to AVI as Sorenson is to DIVX.”
Me: *hysterical laughing* “Fleurgen is to schneurgen as gmergen is to geflorgen. You didn’t make it any easier.”

Note to self: Check out this book club recommended to me by a customer today…

Oh my god. This Mario quilt is the Coolest. Quilt. Ever. I feel my patchwork urge returning. But how to top this?

I don’t think I could personally hang my eyeglasses off a nose piercing. I just have this feeling that it would, like, tickle me between the eyes, and I’d go cross-eyed from staring at the lack-of-bridge all the time. (Didn’t that sorta happen in The Jerk?) That said, I got terribly frustrated while shopping for new sunglasses tonight. All the styles were wraparound, which my Korean face completely rules out. (My nose has very little bridge so wraparounds end up sitting on my cheeks, which I hate.) Maybe “Blue Blockers + Piercing” would be just the ticket?

It’s been a stressful week at work, but I wanted to let all the knitters know that on Saturday Tapestry Craft will be having an official product launch for Noro yarns. I know! How sweet is that? We’re finally getting them. I also heard through the grapevine that “Don from Prestige Fibres” is also going to be giving some of this cult-favorite wool away, so be sure and stop in if you’re in town…

John thinks you’ve probably already seen them, but I for one think these freaky Cartoon Character Skeletons are worth a double-take. Hello Kitty looks scary, yo.

Okay, so I managed to lose all the ratings and playcounts in my iTunes music library. I still had that data on the iPod, but it wouldn’t update iTunes (since I had the iPod set to manually update because out library is bigger than the iPod). I did some desperate Googling tonight and discovered iPod-iTunes Data 1.0.1. It’s not the prettiest application in the world, but I’m happy to report that it copied all my metadata back to my Mac. (Tip: I had trouble getting it to work at first because I didn’t read the fine print about setting the “update” dates at the bottom, which default to the current date. It only checks songs that you’ve played since that day, so if you’re doing it for the first time, you need to click the down arrow about a million times to get back to the first day you used the iPod. That was easy in my case, but it could be a bitch if you’ve had yours a long time.)