February 2008
8 posts
More surfthechannel goodies
So I started on this rambling email about how there’s two kinds of people, people who create work and people who consume work. It’s something I believe, but I got bored writing it so I’m sure it would bore you to read it. For those who know what I’m talking about, I’m a consumer, for better or worse. Moving on.. I told you how surfthechannel.com changed their...
WatchEric turned me on to this show. It’s really something else. Girl witnesses her mother’s murder at the hands of an abusive father, grows up, goes mental, turns into a cartoon and kills assholes. Really.
Frozen in Grand Central →
Found on linkfilter. See what happens when 200+ people go to Grand Central Station and suddenly stop what they’re doing and stand perfectly still.
surfthechannel.com update
I went in to look on our friends at surfthechannel.com today and it appears they’ve changed their encryption mechanism sometime yesterday. I will try to spend some time later today cracking that.
I did promise you some statistics on where I’m finding copyright violations. My script only monitors submissions marked as “new”, so the total numbers aren’t that high. ...
We blog for fun
For a startup, we don’t goof off much at blip. You won’t find a single razor scooter in our office, and the xbox has a thick layer of dust on it. Our latest trend for little goofing off that we do, has been to write insane tumblr blogs about each other, and even the office plant life. It’s a quick distraction between fires and code, and you don’t even have to leave your...
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Terrifying moments in global warming
From linkfilter. Hogen-Dazs has a big web campaign running to help “Save the Honey Bees”. From what you ask? From Colony Collapse Disorder, a rare phenomenon where worker bees simply disappear for mysterious reasons. The causes are unknown, but the occurrences have sharply risen in the last two years. Honey bees play a big role in pollination of many of the foods we eat, a full...
Hacking back at the pirates
Copyrighted material is a big problem on video hosts, and blip is no exception. One of the ways we keep tabs on copyright violators is by looking at link sites. Right now we only monitor one, surfthechannel.com. Their clean interface makes it sooo easy to crawl.
Recently they’ve figured out that we and possibly others are watching, because they started “encrypting” their...