Light rail to the airport bitches. I know, welcome to the 20th century Seattle. Still, I'm excited.
I know the pic is kinda lame, but it's early and I'm not feeling creative.
Anyway the point is, I didn't have to wake anyone up and ask them to drive me to the airport in rush hour traffic. It's like living in a real city.
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While walking the dog this morning, the dog started getting really excited. My sleepy eyes finally focused on a Coyote stationed at the entrance to an alley about 40 feet away. I stopped and pulled the dog back toward me but all he wanted to do was say hi to the new dog. I started yelling and all the coyote did was stand there and stare. My dog was now freaking out so I started to back away and the coyote started following us. Talk about terrifying!
More yelling, more hand waving and we had a stand off. Someone came out of one of the apartments on to her deck and I told her what was happening. She suggested a call to animal control which I found kind of unhelpful since I had no phone and an emergency situation on my hands and NOTHING at hand to throw.
She found something small on her deck to throw and I finally found a tin can which got him to back off a bit, but not much. As she called Animal Control, I kept yelling and stomping in the direction of the coyote who pretty much held its ground.
Finally I found a large rock and as I got ready to heave it, the coyote seemed to understand that I had something with weight in my hands and bolted back down the alley. I backed back up my street to keep an eye out and went back inside with my poor terrified dog.
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Anti-virus maker AVG is warning of a new worm spreading on Facebook via user’s walls.
According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive photo that is being placed on their walls by infected friends.
Here’s how it works:“For those unfamiliar with FacebookFacebook
(is there anyone other than me in that set?) the thumbnail of the worm’s infective page is a link to the page. The worm’s objective, of course, is that others viewing the victim’s wall will click the link, and as they are logged into Facebook, the worm will propagate its link to that victim’s wall, and so on…
This worm uses what is technically known as a CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery, also called XSRF) attack. A sequence of iframes on the exploit page call a sequence of other pages and scripts, eventually resulting in a form submission to Facebook “as if” the victim had submitted a URL for a wall post and clicked on the “Share” button to confirm the post.”
While this attack seems to cause more embarrassment than it does damage to your computer or account, it also seems like one of the easier ones to fall for since all it requires is “clicking da button, baby.” The long and short of it seems to be: avoid the booty.
Facebook worm. Much as you want to, DON’T click on the naked woman pics.
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Lindsey Hoshaw for The New York TimesA spotted gray trigger fish was just big enough to fit inside a caulking tube, and became highly protective of its tiny habitat, snapping at approaching fish. Researchers removed the tube from the garbage patch in September and placed it in an aquarium for observation.
I’m obsessed with the horror that is the Pacific Garbage Patch. It disgusts me that we, as a species, has created this. So, building on my post from last weekend about the dead birds there, I give you this.
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