The New PE, letting your kids get dominated later in life.

Child being bulliedWhat happens when you take the competition out of sports? You have The New PE. There are schools where kids are not allowed to play ta, but instead they play shadow tag. These same kids are forbidden to touch each other at all, and when they hug they “air hug”. The idea behind The New PE is to “guide youngsters in the process of becoming physically active for a lifetime”. That is a nice idea, but in practice it removes any chance of a child failing at something.

I have a major problem with this new method of teaching kids physical fitness. Kids need to be shielded from things early on, but competition and intensity isn’t it. Sports is where kids learn the drive to be better than they currently are. If you don’t learn that early you are destined to not want anything better, and we will be left with a nation of average or below average people. Personally, that would not be good for this country. (more…)

URL shortners, the best way to infect computers.

I have been thinking about internet security a lot lately and I can’t help but think that sites like TinyURL, BitLy, Twitter and Facebook are a perfect way to get hordes of people infected with exploits. If you think about it, it’s not that hard to do at all and I think you could get this implemented in an afternoon. The only trick would be getting someone with significant reach to tweet your site link.

So, how would one do this? Well, you could take an XSS approach like this kid, Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, or you could just brute force someone’s account. After you get in you can simply post a shortened URL and ask for the repost. At this point, on the internet, people are so mindless that they will probably retweet blindly if the subject is compelling enough. Then you can use good ole Mikeyy’s technique to proliferate your malware across the network.

The obfuscation of the target site using TinyURL is so beautiful that you could do this on a host of sites. But, what if someone goes to the url preview of the TinyURL? Well, that is a problem, but with all the twitter tools out there that do not implement this feature it’s not a problem if some do go to the preview. See, it’s pretty easy to do this type of hack and quite frankly the brute force attack on the account is the only real annoyance in the hole process.

Here’s the deal, I am writing this article to keep people thinking about what they are doing online. It’s easy to get a firewall and an anti-virus and think that you are safe, but if you are clicking tinyurls and bitly links all over the place you can get hammered just as easily. Just be careful with your internet.

Why Don’t Shoe Manufacturers Like Toddler Sizes?

I personally don’t think that shoe manufacturer like toddler sizes. I have been on a mission to find a particular kind of shoe for my 2 year old who wears a size 9. The only reason this mission began was because I saw pair of white eyelet ballet flats for an infant that would go perfectly with her Easter dress. I don’t necessarily need them to be ballet flats, but I wanted a pair of semi-dressy shoes covered with the white eyelet fabric. I found them in infant, girls’ and womens’ sizes. All sizes for females with the exception of toddlers!! Why?!?! I might understand a little better if I only found them in one category of sizes. But I found them in all except toddlers. Ugh!!!!!

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Please people, stop the rubber-necking already!

Every time I see an accident on my way to work I notice horrible rubber-necking that causes severe traffic. I can’t understand why people continue to do this crap during rush hour. Seriously, if you were in the accident would you appreciate people gawking at you and wondering what happened to you? Would you enjoy the stupid drivers around you slowing down to get a glimpse of yourself on the ground or in your car? I bet you wouldn’t…so stop doing it. It’s a stupid habit and it contributes to traffic every day. Stop being stupid people!