Pittsburgh driver's test -- A funny joke...

"Pittsburgh driver's test

(5) Your car's horn is a vital piece of safety equipment.  How often should you test it?

    (a) once a year.
    (b) once a month.
    (c) once a day.
    (d) once an hour.

The correct answer is (d). You should test your car's horn at least once every hour, and more often at night or in residential neighborhoods."


From DSLReports.com's random fortune.

Muffins!

Cartel's DSLReports' post shared an amusing and sad captcha image showing muffins. Uh, wait...

Privacy, Anonymity, and Individuality The Final Battle Begins HQ - HOPE XI 2016

Therube mentioned a very long YouTube talk presentation video showing "Privacy, Anonymity, and Individuality The Final Battle Begins HQ - HOPE XI 2016 -- (175 mins) Steven Rambam -- First came the assault on privacy. Name, address, telephone, DOB, SSN, physical description, friends, family, likes, dislikes, habits, hobbies, beliefs, religion, sexual orientation, finances, every granular detail of a person's life, all logged, indexed, analyzed and cross-referenced. Then came the gathering of location and communication data. Cell phones, apps, metro cards, license plate readers and toll tags, credit card use, IP addresses and authenticated logins, tower info, router proximity, networked 'things' everywhere reporting on activity and location, astoundingly accurate facial recognition mated with analytics and 'gigapixel' cameras and, worst of all, mindlessly self-contributed posts, tweets, and 'check-ins,' all constantly reporting a subject's location 24-7-365, to such a degree of accuracy that 'predictive profiling' knows where you will likely be next Thursday afternoon. Today we are experiencing constant efforts to shred anonymity. Forensic linguistics, browser fingerprinting, lifestyle and behavior analysis, metadata of all types, HTML5, IPv6, and daily emerging "advances" in surveillance technologies - some seemingly science fiction but real - are combining to make constant, mobile identification and absolute loss of anonymity inevitable. And, now, predictably, the final efforts to homogenize: the 'siloing' and Balkanization of the Internet. As Internet use becomes more and more self-restricted to a few large providers, as users increasingly never leave the single ecosystem of a Facebook or a Google, as the massive firehose of information on the Internet is 'curated' and 'managed' by persons who believe that they know best what news and opinions you should have available to read, see, and believe, the bias of a few will eventually determine what you believe. What is propaganda? What is truth? You simply won't know. In a tradition dating back to the first HOPE conference, for three full hours Steven Rambam will detail the latest trends in privacy invasion and will demonstrate cutting-edge anonymity-shredding surveillance technologies. Drones will fly, a 'privacy victim' will undergo digital proctology, a Q&A period will be provided, and fun will be had by all." Scary and interesting. What else has changed and improved since then? Yikes. :(

Blog #2...

It is sure cold, wet, and busier after the quiet Thanksgiving 2018 week and before it even if this insect is still unemployed for almost a couple years (in six/6 days). Also, this ant had been sleeping and waking up too late! :(

Weekly frequently updated funny YouTube video playlists that your overlord checks each Tuesday...

True Facts -- "True Facts About Everything. Science. And Science."

Epic NPC Man makes fun of role playing games (RPGs).

Honest Trailers -- "Trailers that tell you the TRUTH about your favorite movies and TV shows: Honest Trailers. These are the hilarious trailers the producers don't want you to see..."

Limited snail mails for Americans, tomorrow (12/5/2018).

United States Postal Service (USPS) (#1 and #2 (seen on Reddit)) will be mostly closed tomorrow declared by the current President Donald J(ohn) Trump to mourn President George Herbert Walker (H.W.) Bush who passed away at the age of 94 years old.

MonkeyUser's Comic Strip on Information Technology (IT)

MonkeyUser has funny comic strips with "... an effort of two inappropriate developers trying to make others laugh. MonkeyUser was created out of a desire to bring joy to people working in IT by making life a little less boring, but mostly because it’s a lot of fun..." Thanks to Mousey who shared this web site many weeks ago.

CarbotAnimations' Hilarious Animated Blizzard Video Game Parodies

Old CarbotAnimations' YouTube channel has tons of funny animated videos based on Blizzard's games. Recently, they added their Diablo game videos.