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November 24, 2006
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Parking Spot
Posted on November 24, 2006 at 3:55 PM • 13 Comments
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Isn't it obvious? The squid is waiting for his friends to arrive for a tailgate party. Go Huskies!!
Posted by: Anonymous at November 24, 2006 5:24 PM
If one follows the "mystery solved" link, there's an explanation:
"The photo is from the Japanese newswires. The squid was in the parking lot of a wholesale fish market somewhere in northern Tohoku Japan. The image was labeled “tohoku_shijou .jpeg��?, which means the ‘Tohoku [district] wholesale [fish] market’."
Posted by: &rw at November 24, 2006 6:17 PM
somebody put it there to reserve the space. this doesn't work in all instances, people like me will just park on top of it.
Posted by: another_bruce at November 25, 2006 10:38 AM
Some caution advised on work machines if you are following the "Mystery Solved" link. Theres a number of references to "Tentacle Sex" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_sex (also possibly NSFW). "Odd" doesnt even begin to describe it ...
Posted by: Rob Mayfield at November 26, 2006 3:09 PM
@Rob M.
Caution also advised when using this link
http://www.schneier.com/blog/newcomments.html
The comments section on "Keyboards and Covert Channels" is turning into a real scum-magnet, attracting all the worst kinds of comment spam.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/...
Can the site admin take care of this, please?
Posted by: Anonymous at November 26, 2006 4:03 PM
"The comments section on 'Keyboards and Covert Channels' is turning into a real scum-magnet, attracting all the worst kinds of comment spam."
I know. I've been cleaning the spam out every day for over a week. I finally got fed up and turned off comments on that thread.
I don't like doing that -- sometimes people leave good comments on old threads -- but I didn't see any practical alternative.
Posted by: Bruce Schneier at November 26, 2006 6:37 PM
"I know. I've been cleaning the spam out every day for over a week. I finally got fed up and turned off comments on that thread."
There must be an interesting paper in "What blog topics attract the most spam". I wonder if it's the 'keyboard' or the 'covert' that's attracting it.
Still holding out against captchas?
Posted by: Rich at November 27, 2006 11:06 AM
Askimet. http://akismet.com/
Very effective on my WordPress blog.
Posted by: altjira at November 27, 2006 8:04 PM
Well, I spelled it wrong, but in my defense, so many other people must also do so that it was the first link from Google. Not even a suggested spelling correction.
Posted by: altjira at November 27, 2006 8:08 PM
@Rich
>Still holding out against captchas?
Already been cracked.
Posted by: bob at November 28, 2006 6:44 PM
bob> [captchas] Already been cracked.
Not sure what you mean. Just because someone can point a bunch of cheap labor at them that doesn't mean they won't dramatically reduce the amount of comment spam.
Posted by: antibozo at November 29, 2006 1:40 AM
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