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Please reply immediately its very important..

from Ian Davies
reply-to [email protected]
to transmothra
date Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM
subject Please reply immediately its very important..
11:17 AM (18 hours ago)

I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a
subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private
equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.

I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to
assume the new
recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD

Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds
will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A
facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit
and
credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the
automated clearing house system.

Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice
will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account
within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD
as your
commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an
account
to
clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to
our
agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.

I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to
file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter
of the
financial fiscal year 2011

Looking forward to working with you.
Ian Davies
Accredited vendor
Alliot Groups PS
Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from Ian Davies
sender-time Sent at 2:34 AM (GMT+02:00). Current time there: 12:43 PM. ?
reply-to [email protected]
to transmothra
date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM
subject Hope to hear from you its very important.
hide details 2:34 AM (3 hours ago)
I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a
subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private
equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.
I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to
assume the new
recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD
Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds
will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A
facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit
and
credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the
automated clearing house system.
Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice
will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account
within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD
as your
commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an
account
to
clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to
our
agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.
I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to
file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter
of the
financial fiscal year 2011
Looking forward to working with you.
Ian Davies
Accredited vendor
Alliot Groups PS
Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from transmothra
sender-time Sent at 4:47 AM (GMT-05:00). Current time there: 5:44 AM. ?
reply-to [email protected]
to [email protected]
date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:47 AM
subject Re: Hope to hear from you its very important.
mailed-by transmothra.com
hide details 4:47 AM (56 minutes ago)
My Dear Friend Ian,

I am so glad to hear from you! Twice in one night! I very much hope that you will forgive my vapid insolence, as it has been well over 12 hours since your first email was sent. I can certainly understand why you would send me another message. You were probably worried about my health, knowing, as you surely do, of my dire condition.

As you may remember from our rendezvous the other night, I am not well. The bruise surrounding the warty area on my penis has started to emit a strange brownish-orange discharge. Most likely it is bloody pus from the infection, although I fear I cannot satisfactorily explain the color. Since you were the last person with whom I had a romantic liaison, I must earnestly beg for you to seek attention from your local medical facilities. You don’t want to wind up with what I’ve got, Ian. It hurts like hell.

And that’s nothing compared to the fissures I’ve been developing on my anus. I had my nurse check them out, and he couldn’t find how deeply they went, since he couldn’t fit his arm in any further. If it’s as serious as I suspect it is, you’ll want to check yours out as well, for sure. You’ll want to do it fast, too, since it seems to be getting worse almost by the hour. Hell, if you have to, just tear off your trousers, run out into the street and ask the first passer-by you see to put his or her hand in there and feel around. Bring a flashlight too. It might help to spot the maggots, although you might not even need it. I can feel mine squirming around in there just fine without one. In fact, I shouldn’t think you would even have need of checking at all, if your excrement is like soured milk, in sight, smell, and texture, as mine is. If that’s the case, get yourself a doctor pronto, and probably a lawyer too. The smell of doom is that of sour milk. Indeed.

But, on to business. It is obvious to me that, aside from your warm and loving affection, you sincerely trust me a great deal, which I appreciate most sweetly; and of course I trust you like I trust my own brother (although, between you and me, he can be a real asshole sometimes – and I am starting to suspect that he may be a faggot, besides… he’ll be walking with a limp for a month after I show him what he gets for that). However, I will need a few details from you before we begin this mutually-lucrative transaction. Since this is surely destined to be a completely legitimate transaction, after all, I trust you won’t mind providing these little details one bit. I’ll make it worth you while, believe me. Believe me. Oh, believe me, Ian. Believe me!

If you would so please, my old friend, send me the following details. Once I receive the proper data from you, I will begin the process of forwarding the information to my nurse, who will begin to distribute any and all information you have requested back to you and any partners you specify. I thank you for your patience with me during these troubling times. Hopefully we can get this process completely quickly, as I fear my time is not long for this world. I feel that I am fading fast, Ian!

Full name:
Aliases:
Government ID#:
Street Address:
Date of birth:
City of birth:
Mother’s full name:
Father’s full name:
Telephone number:
E-mail address:
Current IP address:
MAC address (this is important so I can send you whatever you need directly):
Credit card number:
Credit card issuing bank:
Bank account number:
Bank account routing number:

Again, thank you Ian, for offering me the opportunity to partake in the fortune with which you are currently involved. My best to you and your whore wife and worthless children.

Your loving compagnon-au-nuit,
Thaddeus “Tad” Ghostal

P.S., I am most serious about getting yourself looked at. I have been throwing up what looks like partially-liquefied pig’s liver for the past 12 hours now. It smells almost exactly like the rotten corpse of a severely inebriated rotgut wino – about four days in, I surmise. There’s even a sort of stringy, thread-like substance running all through it that causes me no end of duress throughout this ugly process. So please, for the love of all that is sweet and pure, see your doctor ASAP. It appears to be catching, as my daughter is starting to take ill with it as well. I couldn’t give two shits about her, but I don’t want to lose you, Ian.

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Please reply immediately its very important..

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

from Ian Davies

reply-to daviesian12

to transmothra

date Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM

subject Please reply immediately its very important..

11:17 AM (18 hours ago)

I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a

subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private

equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.

I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to

assume the new

recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD

Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds

will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A

facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit

and

credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the

automated clearing house system.

Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice

will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account

within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD

as your

commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an

account

to

clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to

our

agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.

I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to

file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter

of the

financial fiscal year 2011

Looking forward to working with you.

Ian Davies

Accredited vendor

Alliot Groups PS

Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from Ian Davies

sender-time Sent at 2:34 AM (GMT+02:00). Current time there: 12:43 PM. ?

reply-to daviesian12

to transmothra

date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM

subject Hope to hear from you its very important.

hide details 2:34 AM (3 hours ago)

I am Ian Davies ;an accredited vendor of Alliot Groups, a

subsidiary firm of Emirates International Holding (EIH); A private

equity funds holding company that focuses on hedge funds.

I have contacted you in the hope that you can be my associate to

assume the new

recipient of a Fixed-Income deposit, valued at 25MUSD

Once I file your details as the new recipient to the funds, the funds

will be approved through the AUTOMATED CLEARING HOUSE (ACH) – A

facility used by financial institutions to distribute electronic debit

and

credit entries to bank accounts and settle such entries. Under the

automated clearing house system.

Once your details is approved as the new recipient; a Credit advice

will be issued in your favor and the funds will clear in your account

within three banking days. I am willing to give you 40% which is 10MUSD

as your

commission out of the 25MUSD for your assistance in providing an

account

to

clear the funds. I am confident you will be honest enough to adhere to

our

agreed commissions in spite of the 25MUSD coming through your account.

I will need you to forward me your legal names address and phone to

file your details on the fund as the new recipient in this first Quarter

of the

financial fiscal year 2011

Looking forward to working with you.

Ian Davies

Accredited vendor

Alliot Groups PS

Awaiting your legal names,address and telephone number

from transmothra

sender-time Sent at 4:47 AM (GMT-05:00). Current time there: 5:44 AM. ?

reply-to fuckyouiandavies

to daviesian12

date Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:47 AM

subject Re: Hope to hear from you its very important.

mailed-by transmothra.com

hide details 4:47 AM (56 minutes ago)

My Dear Friend Ian,

I am so glad to hear from you! Twice in one night! I very much hope that you will forgive my vapid insolence, as it has been well over 12 hours since your first email was sent. I can certainly understand why you would send me another message. You were probably worried about my health, knowing, as you surely do, of my dire condition.

As you may remember from our rendezvous the other night, I am not well. The bruise surrounding the warty area on my penis has started to emit a strange brownish-orange discharge. Most likely it is bloody pus from the infection, although I fear I cannot satisfactorily explain the color. Since you were the last person with whom I had a romantic liaison, I must earnestly beg for you to seek attention from your local medical facilities. You don’t want to wind up with what I’ve got, Ian. It hurts like hell.

And that’s nothing compared to the fissures I’ve been developing on my anus. I had my nurse check them out, and he couldn’t find how deeply they went, since he couldn’t fit his arm in any further. If it’s as serious as I suspect it is, you’ll want to check yours out as well, for sure. You’ll want to do it fast, too, since it seems to be getting worse almost by the hour. Hell, if you have to, just tear off your trousers, run out into the street and ask the first passer-by you see to put his or her hand in there and feel around. Bring a flashlight too. It might help to spot the maggots, although you might not even need it. I can feel mine squirming around in there just fine without one. In fact, I shouldn’t think you would even have need of checking at all, if your excrement is like soured milk, in sight, smell, and texture, as mine is. If that’s the case, get yourself a doctor pronto, and probably a lawyer too. The smell of doom is that of sour milk. Indeed.

But, on to business. It is obvious to me that, aside from your warm and loving affection, you sincerely trust me a great deal, which I appreciate most sweetly; and of course I trust you like I trust my own brother (although, between you and me, he can be a real asshole sometimes – and I am starting to suspect that he may be a faggot, besides… he’ll be walking with a limp for a month after I show him what he gets for that). However, I will need a few details from you before we begin this mutually-lucrative transaction. Since this is surely destined to be a completely legitimate transaction, after all, I trust you won’t mind providing these little details one bit. I’ll make it worth you while, believe me. Believe me. Oh, believe me, Ian. Believe me!

If you would so please, my old friend, send me the following details. Once I receive the proper data from you, I will begin the process of forwarding the information to my nurse, who will begin to distribute any and all information you have requested back to you and any partners you specify. I thank you for your patience with me during these troubling times. Hopefully we can get this process completely quickly, as I fear my time is not long for this world. I feel that I am fading fast, Ian!

Full name:

Aliases:

Government ID#:

Street Address:

Date of birth:

City of birth:

Mother’s full name:

Father’s full name:

Telephone number:

E-mail address:

Current IP address:

MAC address (this is important so I can send you whatever you need directly):

Credit card number:

Credit card issuing bank:

Bank account number:

Bank account routing number:

Again, thank you Ian, for offering me the opportunity to partake in the fortune with which you are currently involved. My best to you and your whore wife and worthless children.

Your loving compagnon-au-nuit,

Thaddeus “Tad” Ghostal

P.S., I am most serious about getting yourself looked at. I have been throwing up what looks like partially-liquefied pig’s liver for the past 12 hours now. It smells almost exactly like the rotten corpse of a severely inebriated rotgut wino – about four days in, I surmise. There’s even a sort of stringy, thread-like substance running all through it that causes me no end of duress throughout this ugly process. So please, for the love of all that is sweet and pure, see your doctor ASAP. It appears to be catching, as my daughter is starting to take ill with it as well. I couldn’t give two shits about her, but I don’t want to lose you, Ian.

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Some great legal FREE music download sites

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

Recently, a friend asked me (me: the master of all things electronical) for some recommendations for downloading free music legally. Although i was hard pressed to name any legit source of free major label music, i have enough links to some really amazing sites that feature and host very good free music. Much of it is licensed under various Creative Commons licenses, and most is both free (as in beer) and free (as in free speech). As always, read the fine print for exact details for each site and every download. Additionally, check your local laws if you’re unsure about the license (personally, i have not found any gray areas here, since most of the music is either offered by the artists themselves as free, or is licensed freely, or is in some cases even public domain).

Since many of these are blogs, i highly recommend getting to know RSS feeds, and adding their feeds to your favorite feed reader. If you have no favorite feed reader, Google Reader is a great place to start.

So, without further ado, here are my top picks for really cool free, legal mp3 sites, in no particular order…

Amazon.com

Here are some free albums and some cheap albums. A whole lot of really good free stuff. At the top right you can select “Price: low to high” to get all the free stuff listed first, but the default setting is “bestselling, so that one shows the most popular free stuff, mixed in with some good cheap deals too. You can also go to single songs, too, and browse the links on the right by price and genre, etc.

Archive.org’s free music and netlabels categories

I could spend days without sleep sifting through some of these really amazing collections. You can drill down by keyword and genre and popularity. Very little big-name artists, but some serious gems (also a lot of duds, too, but if you look at the download counters you can tell which ones are liked – or at least downloaded – the most).

BlocSonic

This netlabel has tons of free samplers and whole albums by nobody you’ve heard before but every minute is really good, and they have an excellent mix of genres. I guess you could call them a metalabel, since their compilations frequently feature artists on other netlabels. One of the best free music sources around.

Note: these next two exemplary sites, despite my egregious lack of better-apt descriptions, are among my very favorite resources, not only for the wonderful personal touch you can find, but also for the incredible variety and sheer scope of their blogs and the insight gleaned from reading their notes on each feature, which are like meta-liner notes. These are both, as they say, earnest labors of love for their respective curators. As i’ve noted in a comment below, the best possible thing to do in lieu of giving you a lengthy and drooling description, is to implore you to go and dig deeply and feel the fresh cool sand between your fingers, and linger, and wonder at how new and interesting things can truly be when experienced with fullness and vigor. And maybe leave a note of thanks whenever you see something really cool that you enjoyed.

Free Albums Galore

This site frequently features avant-jazz and minimalist techno, but you can also find some fantastic alternative, pop, rock, folk, et cetera. Another great resource.

Catching the Waves

Another great free music source. See Free Albums Galore above. Same thing applies here.

Bandcamp

Bandcamp has tons of music from indie bands. Some free, some not. It’s fun to sift through, and you can find some real cool stuff here, sometimes even some up-and-coming bands that are just beginning to fly above the radar. Try this link for free stuff. I don’t use bandcamp that often, since i’m usually directed there by one of the other sites above.

The Peppermill

I have not heard anything from this label that i didn’t fall in love with immediately. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. And try The Box: I cannot tell you anything about this record, except that it is freaky and weird and quirky, and yes, you DO recognize that tune.

I would be not only remiss, but probably also shamed before my peers, and quite possibly also drawn and quartered, if i didn’t point you to

Phlow

…who have awesome compilations and records, covering all kinds of genres, though a lot of it is maybe more techno and hip-hop and trip-hop oriented. Their massive year-end best-of mixes last year were pretty amazing.

Free Music Archive

Possibly the granddaddy of all free music sites, the FMA is a project of WFMU, “the most renowned freeform radio station in America”. They feature music of all kinds. This is one amazing resource that is just as much fun to sift through as it is to listen through.

Lastly, here’s one i just found out about:

Thomas’ Posterous

Having no experience with this one, all i can say is that it comes highly recommended from Catching the Waves.

Other great sites, archives, and blogs to check out

Oddio Overplay

The Silent Ballet

Netlabel Index

largehearted boy: daily downloads

RedFerret’s wikidump

3hive

FreeIndie

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:mp3s

Netlabels Noises

Ektoplazm: free music portal

FrostClick:Audio

Jamendo (the King of free music sites)

Lastly (ok, really lastly), here’s my Google Reader bundle: Free Music et cetera (OPML)

Happy sifting!!

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comments

Comments are generally closed here due to the WordPress plugin that i use (ljxp), which, when connecting to LJ to update a post, basically deletes the entire post and recreates it as an entirely new post. I’ve known about this for a while, and i’m not real happy about it, but either the LJ API is not well understood over there, or it’s not easy or possible to update a post without destroying it.

So if you’ve commented on anything i’ve crossposted here from my blog, and i’ve updated that post and lost your comment(s), sorry.

That is all.

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Cool and Useful Stuffs

Here’s a list of some cool and useful stuff i’ve compiled for Holly’s brother. I thought i’d share it here.

You never have to worry about spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, worms, or other malware, because i’ve already used this stuff, plus i only use apps and sites that are already well-known to be pretty friggin’ excellent. Every one of these sites and apps come with a solid reputation.

All of this stuff is 100% free, except for a few that you can optionally pay for, like Reaper (audio recording). Naturally, i do not recommend downloading pirated software or media content.

Awesome free stuff you have to have, or at least need to know about:

System utilities and just plain excellent basics

Cool, useful stuff for your desktop

Audio, video, media

  • Audacity (audio)
  • Reaper (audio)
  • foobar2000 (music)
  • VLC (media player)
    • http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    • Great video player. Looks daunting, but all you have to do is play video or audio files. It’s one of the few that can open almost any file type. Can also convert, stream, save, etc.
  • GIMP (images)
    • http://www.gimp.org/
    • Like Photoshop, but a little scarier-looking. A couple of hours playing with it and you’ll get the hang of it. Powerful.
  • Irfanview (images)
  • DVDFlick (DVD authoring)
    • http://www.dvdflick.net/
    • Put your legally questionable downloaded movies on DVD with menus and everything! Not the best, but really easy to use.
  • uTorrent (downloading)
    • http://www.utorrent.com/
    • Download anything you want with this.
    • Best sites for searching are:
      • Obviously, use at your own risk. Read comments, look at details, and install anti-malware apps first. BTjunkie even has icons for # of ‘good/bad’ reports per torrent, so make sure to check them out.
        • You can use Peer Guardian to hide your IP address while you’re downloading legally questionable content. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
          • http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
  • TVersity (media center)
    • http://tversity.com/
    • Like Windows Media Center, but free and better. Download podcasts and videocasts and share your video across your home network.
    • If you have an Xbox or some other device for your TV, you can even watch your hard-drive movies/music/photos on TV. Super awesome.

Web sites that you will presently become completely, slobber-mouth addicted to, because they are awesome and will make you WIN.

  • Google Calendar
    • http://www.google.com/calendar/
    • You can even remind yourself of appointments via email or SMS to your mobile phone! You can also share calendar events and add other people’s events to yours.
  • Lifehacker
    • http://lifehacker.com/
    • Learn how to make life easier, cooler, better, and awesomer. Comes in many flavors, from real-world DIY projects to digital shortcuts
    • I really cannot say enough good about this site. Some of the best tips, tricks, and suggestions i’ve ever found for all areas of life, both digital and in meatspace.
    • Seriously. Wicked awesome.
  • Facebook
    • http://facebook.com/
    • Find old friends. Avoid others. Lots of dumb widgets, and you can “poke” people until their brains bleed. Annoying, but awesome too.
  • Picasa
  • Flickr
  • Gmail
  • Google Reader
  • Twitter
    • http://twitter.com/
    • Like a micro-sized blog. Send “tweets” from your cell phone or via web.
  • WordPress
  • Indeed
  • LinkedIn
  • Craigslist
  • BoingBoing
    • http://boingboing.net/
    • “A directory of wonderful things” – weird, cool stuff, plus news you might not hear about elsewhere.
  • Digg
    • http://digg.com/
    • Social news site. Most popular submitted stories rise to the top. Addictive, interesting, and easy.
  • last.fm
    • http://last.fm/
    • Social networking, music-style. Also download their desktop player. With that you can play music tagged with descriptive keywords. For fun, try typing in “unlistenable.”

If you’re ever looking for killer software (or a web site) that does ‘X, Y, and/or Z,’ just let me know and i’ll point you to something good, safe, fun, and useful.

My username is “transmothra” on most sites – if you run into me online be sure to say hello!

Find me on: jeremy jarratt.com | FaceBook | MySpace | MySpace music | LiveJournal | Flickr | Last.fm | LinkedIn | Jobster | Digg | Google Reader | Netflix | Twitter | YouTube | FriendFeed
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Cool and Useful Stuffs

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. Please leave any comments there.

Here’s a list of some cool and useful stuff i’ve compiled for Holly’s brother. I thought i’d share it here.

You never have to worry about spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, worms, or other malware, because i’ve already used this stuff, plus i only use apps and sites that are already well-known to be pretty friggin’ excellent. Every one of these sites and apps come with a solid reputation.

All of this stuff is 100% free, except for a few that you can optionally pay for, like Reaper (audio recording). Naturally, i do not recommend downloading pirated software or media content.

Awesome free stuff you have to have, or at least need to know about:

System utilities and just plain excellent basics

Cool, useful stuff for your desktop

Audio, video, media

  • Audacity (audio)

  • Reaper (audio)

  • foobar2000 (music)

  • VLC (media player)

    • http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    • Great video player. Looks daunting, but all you have to do is play video or audio files. It’s one of the few that can open almost any file type. Can also convert, stream, save, etc.

  • GIMP (images)

    • http://www.gimp.org/

    • Like Photoshop, but a little scarier-looking. A couple of hours playing with it and you’ll get the hang of it. Powerful.

  • Irfanview (images)

  • DVDFlick (DVD authoring)

    • http://www.dvdflick.net/

    • Put your legally questionable downloaded movies on DVD with menus and everything! Not the best, but really easy to use.

  • uTorrent (downloading)

    • http://www.utorrent.com/

    • Download anything you want with this.

    • Best sites for searching are:

      • Obviously, use at your own risk. Read comments, look at details, and install anti-malware apps first. BTjunkie even has icons for # of ‘good/bad’ reports per torrent, so make sure to check them out.

        • You can use Peer Guardian to hide your IP address while you’re downloading legally questionable content. Not perfect, but better than nothing.

  • TVersity (media center)

    • http://tversity.com/

    • Like Windows Media Center, but free and better. Download podcasts and videocasts and share your video across your home network.

    • If you have an Xbox or some other device for your TV, you can even watch your hard-drive movies/music/photos on TV. Super awesome.

Web sites that you will presently become completely, slobber-mouth addicted to, because they are awesome and will make you WIN.

  • Google Calendar

    • http://www.google.com/calendar/

    • You can even remind yourself of appointments via email or SMS to your mobile phone! You can also share calendar events and add other people’s events to yours.

  • Lifehacker

    • http://lifehacker.com/

    • Learn how to make life easier, cooler, better, and awesomer. Comes in many flavors, from real-world DIY projects to digital shortcuts

    • I really cannot say enough good about this site. Some of the best tips, tricks, and suggestions i’ve ever found for all areas of life, both digital and in meatspace.

    • Seriously. Wicked awesome.

  • Facebook

    • http://facebook.com/

    • Find old friends. Avoid others. Lots of dumb widgets, and you can “poke” people until their brains bleed. Annoying, but awesome too.

  • Picasa

  • Flickr

  • Gmail

  • Google Reader

  • Twitter

    • http://twitter.com/

    • Like a micro-sized blog. Send “tweets” from your cell phone or via web.

  • WordPress

  • Indeed

  • LinkedIn

  • Craigslist

  • BoingBoing

    • http://boingboing.net/

    • “A directory of wonderful things” – weird, cool stuff, plus news you might not hear about elsewhere.

  • Digg

    • http://digg.com/

    • Social news site. Most popular submitted stories rise to the top. Addictive, interesting, and easy.

  • last.fm

    • http://last.fm/

    • Social networking, music-style. Also download their desktop player. With that you can play music tagged with descriptive keywords. For fun, try typing in “unlistenable.”

If you’re ever looking for killer software (or a web site) that does ‘X, Y, and/or Z,’ just let me know and i’ll point you to something good, safe, fun, and useful.

My username is “transmothra” on most sites – if you run into me online be sure to say hello!

Find me on: jeremy jarratt.com | FaceBook | MySpace | MySpace music | LiveJournal | Flickr | Last.fm | LinkedIn | Jobster | Digg | Google Reader | Netflix | Twitter | YouTube | FriendFeed
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Not no news

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

  • Just got back from the Emergeny Veterinary Clinic in Moraine. I had hit Speck full-force in the eye with his latest favorite toy, a Kong tennis-ball dumbbell. He likes daddy to throw it and bounce it off the wall at the top of the stairs so it goes bouncing all the way downstairs. So i threw it hard, but he’d gotten a head start and i popped him right in the eye. No permanent damage, just blunt trauma to the eye – mainly just discomfort. He seems fine now, but we’re out $164 – which digs into our rent, unfortunately. I feel like such an asshole right now.

  • I’ve just started playing Anarchy Online. It’s pretty cool, and you can play the non-expanded version for free. I’m a froobie.

  • I’ve STILL got that damn cough. It’s just not going away. It’s a little better now, though. And when i take my antibiotics, which i’ve been on for a couple of weeks now, i get nauseated and sleepy. I hate this.

  • And i’ve been depressed as hell lately about my life. I’m trying so hard, but i’m going nowhere. I’ve applied at so many places in the last few months that it’s not even funny. I rarely ever seem to get any response. I’ve had a single interview in the last couple of months. It went well, but it looks as if that employer is going to be extending an offer to an earlier candidate.

  • My voter registration has FINALLY been processed. I’m all set to help Obama get elected to the Presidency of the United States.

And, if you haven’t seen it already, check out the Sarah Palin prank call:

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MTVMusic.com

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

Harkening back to the legendary days of old, i present to you… MTVMusic.com

Queen |MTV Music

Peter Schilling |MTV Music
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Revision3 bites it.

Martin Sargent (from Unscrewed, Infected, Web Drifter and Internet Superstar, also formerly of TechTV’s The Screen Savers) and Sarah Lane (from popSiren, also formerly of The Screen Savers and later on Attack of the Show) have been canned by evil Revision3 execs, along with their respective shows. Several others were also let go. (Here’s Martin’s heartbreaking Tweet.)

Revision3 just went down to Revision2 in my book, and maybe not even that. Those shows had a lot of heart, a lot of soul. I loved Martin’s shows, and popSiren has no doubt influenced a generation of young women to take up careers in technology, geekology, or to otherwise become visionaries like the bold, talented, and fun women on that show. It’s a sad, sad day for Internets.

But hey – Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht still get to giggle hysterically while drunk and looking at Kevin’s ATM.

For my own records, here are some comments/posts i’ve made about this tragic malarky, most of which are just ranting and whining about this crappy, crappy turn. You can skip them, i just want to go back and see if anyone wants to fight me or anything.

http://revision3.com/forum/showpost.php?p=454311&postcount=13

http://revision3.com/blog/2008/10/27/changes-to-revision3/#comment-10623

http://blog.sarahlane.com/2008/10/look-ma-im-a-fr.html#comments (moderated)

http://louderback.com/2008/help-im-infatuated-with-my-fable-2-avatar/#comments

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Revision3 bites it.

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

Martin Sargent (from Unscrewed, Infected, Web Drifter and Internet Superstar, also formerly of TechTV’s The Screen Savers) and Sarah Lane (from popSiren, also formerly of The Screen Savers and later on Attack of the Show) have been canned by evil Revision3 execs, along with their respective shows. Several others were also let go. (Here’s Martin’s heartbreaking Tweet.)

Revision3 just went down to Revision2 in my book, and maybe not even that. Those shows had a lot of heart, a lot of soul. I loved Martin’s shows, and popSiren has no doubt influenced a generation of young women to take up careers in technology, geekology, or to otherwise become visionaries like the bold, talented, and fun women on that show. It’s a sad, sad day for Internets.

But hey – Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht still get to giggle hysterically while drunk and looking at Kevin’s ATM.

For my own records, here are some comments/posts i’ve made about this tragic malarky, most of which are just ranting and whining about this crappy, crappy turn. You can skip them, i just want to go back and see if anyone wants to fight me or anything.

http://revision3.com/forum/showpost.php?p=454311&postcount=13

http://revision3.com/blog/2008/10/27/changes-to-revision3/#comment-10623

http://blog.sarahlane.com/2008/10/look-ma-im-a-fr.html#comments (moderated)

http://louderback.com/2008/help-im-infatuated-with-my-fable-2-avatar/#comments

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Heheh

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

Here’s a funny card i sent to my good friend Greg earlier today. I think it’s a minor fucking masterpiece.

It's been too long since we threw up on each other.

Thought about you while on the toilet today, directly after touching myself in an inappropriate and medically questionable manner, and right before i scrambled downstairs to find those pills that i take to help me forget that i am secretly a raging homosexual. Forgetting my prior enterprise, i neglected to wipe and left a warm, gooey trail all the way down the hall, which will henceforward always remind me fondly of you, and your inadvisably unaltered face.

Have decided i’m going to dedicate my life to Jesus. Do you know him? He’s that Mexican guy who lives at the end of my block. I just found out that he was the one who “stole my innocence,” back in my prison days. That’s a euphemism for fist-raping me in the man-twat while wearing rawhide work gloves and strangling me erotically with a bicycle chain his sister sneaked in for him.

Anyway, wishing you a happy whatever-it-is that you people celebrate today. Oh, wait, i forgot – you’re white. In that case, just have a regular, mediocre day. I’m sure you’re used to having nothing much to look forward to by now. Remember, the Bible says that the meek will inherit the Earth, and that the Bible has been all but proven to be completely full of lies. So don’t get your hopes up, lest they be pointlessly dashed against the rocks like so many empty-headed salmon. Fortunately for you, the inevitable Heat Death of the Universe will ultimately render us both paradoxically equals. So you have that going for you anyway.

I sincerely hope your cries for help do not remain unheeded for much longer, especially seeing as i’ve placed a rather large wager that you’ll survive until at least the end of the year. I do try to keep up with whether or not you’ve died; in the future (once my foolish but potentially lucrative bet has paid off), i’ll try to take a more active role in this regard.

See you at the comic book store with all the other clammy, pale losers and underwear-fetishists.

With greatest vague ambivalence or something,

your well-heeled, superior-bred Estonian advocate,

jeremy

p.s., oh, and give my best to M, and keep whatever’s left over for yourself. I think you deserve it, even if no-one else does.

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Trunk Monkey video

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Funniest ads i think i’ve seen in a long, long time. I hope they’re actual ads from a real car dealership. (Not enough energy to check right now.) My favorite is the car thief one. Brilliant and hilarious!

The Trunk Monkey

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Accessibility rules!

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

Want an argument for accessibility?

Here you go! (via Ma.tt)

Uber-cool Glenda Watson Hyatt, aka the Left Thumb Blogger, shares her perspective on how WordPress has improved her ability to communicate effectively on the internets.

Whether you are 100% able-bodied or not, accessibility is important. Because no matter who you are, the future is coming. Some day many of us may have devices assisting us, whether we need them or not, and completely removing all barriers between humans and machines will be an important first step in enabling us to proliferate on the digital grid – on a truly level playing field.

I’ve committed to making my upcoming theme be as accessible as possible. You should too, especially if you want to meet the Future head-on. Keeping all variants of humanity and machinery in mind when designing user interfaces of any kind will be important there.

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CSS tricks: Styling parent elements with :hover

[EDIT: this site no longer supports the features described in this article. Sorry.]

You may have noticed in my sidebar that there are a few elements which are nested in an obvious hierarchical order. For example, at the time of this writing, i have a list of books which i am either reading, planning to read, or have already read, listed under the “now reading” heading.

You may also have noticed that the heading for each of these menu items is highlighted whenever you hover your cursor (pointer) over it.

What you may not have noticed is that the headings for these items’ parent elements is also highlighted when its descendant is hovered over. In other words, when you hover over the “planned books,” “current books,” or “recent books” list, the parent element, “now reading,” is highlighted as well.

(If you’re still not sure just what the hell i’m talking about, check out the demo first, and then come back.)

This is a cool trick that you rarely ever see on the internets, and it’s remarkably simple to do. You don’t need no fancy JavaScripting to do it, either! No server- or client-side scripts are used at all, just good old CSS, and a properly nested hierarchy of elements.

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CSS tricks: Styling parent elements with :hover

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

[EDIT: this site no longer supports the features described in this article. Sorry.]

You may have noticed in my sidebar that there are a few elements which are nested in an obvious hierarchical order. For example, at the time of this writing, i have a list of books which i am either reading, planning to read, or have already read, listed under the “now reading” heading.

You may also have noticed that the heading for each of these menu items is highlighted whenever you hover your cursor (pointer) over it.

What you may not have noticed is that the headings for these items’ parent elements is also highlighted when its descendant is hovered over. In other words, when you hover over the “planned books,” “current books,” or “recent books” list, the parent element, “now reading,” is highlighted as well.

(If you’re still not sure just what the hell i’m talking about, check out the demo first, and then come back.)

This is a cool trick that you rarely ever see on the internets, and it’s remarkably simple to do. You don’t need no fancy JavaScripting to do it, either! No server- or client-side scripts are used at all, just good old CSS, and a properly nested hierarchy of elements.

First, create a nested list, with headings. For example:

<ol>
 <li>
 <h1>text</h1>
 <h2>more text</h2>
 <ol>
 <li>
 <h3>subtext1</h3>
 </li>
 <li>
 <h3>subtext2</h3>
 <ol>
 <li>
 <h4>subtext2.1</h4>
 </li>
 <li>
 <h4>subtext2.2</h4>
 </li>
 </ol>
 </li>
 <li>
 <h3>subtext</h3>
 </li>
 </ol>
 </li>
 <li>
 <h2>text again</h2>
 </li>
 </ol>

Now create the following style rules:

li:hover>h2, /* matches the H2 element when its parent list-item is hovered over */ li:hover>h3, li:hover>h4, li:hover>h5
 {
 background: #000;
 color: #fed;
 }

(Note that the H1 element is not styled and thus does not actually participate in any fancy hover effects.)

Now save your page and test it out. You can adapt this technique to work with just about any set of nested elements. (Just make sure your nest validates!)

See the demo

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back to the drawing board!

I’m working on a project for a friend right now involving WordPress, which has got me excited enough to go ahead and overhaul this site once again.

So i will FINALLY be upgrading my WP installation and fixing my ACTUAL theme once and for all! I hope to have this completed by the end of the summer.

I promise to make it a whole lot cleaner, too, in layout if not in language.

That is all.

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Askmen.com’s Top 10: Worst Male-Bashing Ads

“These worst male-bashing ads will get you riled up…”

Not me, man. Men really ARE idiots. And some of these ads are funny as hell.

Ok, i pretty much only associate myself with people who meet my admittedly high standards. So, present company definitely excluded, dudes. But other than my close friends (ok, even some of my close friends) and my online guy pals, most of the males i have known have been boorish dicks, mindless oafs, and knuckle-dragging morons. I’m talking about the “beer+fuhbaw+chicka-wings” crowd of Maxim-reading gargantuan-pickup-driving dolts. You know them. I know them. They’re imbeciles, and they’re inevitably the ones who spring to mind when Europeans think of Americans. I’ll say it right now, out loud, in a very public place: i hate those retarded jackasses. They can all go straight to shit.

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“Fanatical Ignorance”

Exploring The Creation Museum – America’s New Mecca of Fanatical Ignorance
Excellent article on religious super-fundamentalism!

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Compelling anti-war video

Former U.S. soldier droppin’ some Truth about this bullshit war in Iraq. Do your self and your conscience and your country and your fellow human beings a favor by watching this and then doing something about it.

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Ben Stein: apparently, biggest idiot ever

Ben Stein, who we no doubt all know and love from his appearances on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Win Ben Stein’s Money, has made a little movie. It’s called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (my thoughts exactly), and it’s a cute little rickroll of an adventure flick with Pro-Nazi Chuck Darwin leading the hoary brigades on a fell mission of genocide and eugenics. Only problem is, it’s a big fat fart-sucking lie. Unfortunately for Mister Stein, he got all of his facts wrong. Well, nearly all, as the credits (both opening and closing) do appear to be accurate.

Here, then, is Scientific American’s John Rennie and Steve Mirsky, reporting on the pitiful, outright lies perpetrated in this ridiculous movie.