When work doesnt happen..

..Then a whole black whole of internet amazingness swallows everything.

I have no recollection of how I found processing.org but my god did it hold my attention. Had I found Processing about 1/2 years ago I probably wouldn’t know my cloaked redirects from my cloaked directors.

Just one of the amazing outcomes of what seems to be such a phenominal platform for good video and multimedia ideas - Micheal jackson Glove tracking!

This is also a cool idea although I can see either me running off into the desert away from 5px by 5px zombies or me running into a solid wall as I have no other escape. Still simply genius!

All Credits to processing.org for being so phenominal.

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Filed under Room 101 : Comments (0) : Jul 17th, 2008

When advertising doesn’t pay

Sometimes its just better to not get that ad revenue for the hot area banner. This is one of those times:

directly under “inspiring” - its almost like the company planned it!

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Filed under Advertising : Comments (0) : Jul 6th, 2008

Off Topic Drunken SEO ramblings

So I figure a good drunken dribble to standard seo ratio is about 1:9, its important to know your drunk to sober ratio so you can work out how fun, alcoholic or mediocre your life has been - have you ever noticed how drink enduces “drink” related convo?

In fact if you see this it means I logged in tomorrow morning/afternoon and actually didnt deem it that offensive enough to delete, so horrahhh Im even more fantastic than I thought I was.

Lets get down to it, I am pretty bored of reading the same old seo crap and havent seen any solid seo posts for weeks so what a good time to throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks. Autonomy is a website I happened across, or rather a company which serves the purpose of what it calls “knowledge management” it does this in the corporate sector, but you see a pretty awesome picture of a jet on the page which shows you they mean business. It lead me to thinking in a rather lengthy manner about the Security services, big brother and about ten other conspiricy theory like conundrums.

Now I don’t tend to neigh’say anything that is thinking, without creative thought I wouldnt be able to type this here today, but as the big G (I restrain myself from further publicising them!) and others (is there really many mainstream se’s we need to include anymore?) refine there algorhythyms and SEO finds its place in webdesign I cannot really see the two being seperated. In a years time will anyone purchase or hire a web developer to end up with a website which is not search engine optimised? once you refine a pages on page factors once, then consiquently spend a few minutes once a month is there really any more you can do on page?

Given the spotlight in a networking environment in a years time will anyone be-able to say SEO as a job role without realisation that in fact that is either a munipulative art or simple on page factor editing. Optimising a website for a search engine is in fact a weak role, something of a small percentage of a good pages time, should you have created an excellent content page the seo work on that page should be a fraction of the time spent creating the content - so either an SEO operates above board but needs a ton of pages to be worthy of their cost or some sort of engine munipulation is required, namely offsite.

The development of the big G algorithm (or perhaps this is all Gspin) should as it progresses divide the lines of the above if you ask me, with the munipulatory being the more skilled, risk apt or at least black hat wearing of the two - but the days where SEO is a meaningful title without either the knowledge that white hat stuff is limited and black hat is essentially evil filters down to the plankton that you talk too are numbered - we need to develop (or perhaps it will show itself) a new role, one that is corporate networking friendly but unknown by the masses.

By god I intended to add value but then all i do is talk SEO CRAP.

The fact that I end up talking about my predictions for seo irratates me, as it is not my concern and so many others do it “where will seo be in 10 years”, “how long will it take for my nan to understand seo”. If SEO dies I couldn’t care less - Ill just find another title to hide my black hat under.

Live well people, in ten years time you’ll be moaning about google banning you from public transport not the serps.

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Filed under Big G : Comments (0) : Jun 28th, 2008

Firefox love you long time clicky clicky?

As the interwebs slapped me in the face with the release of a stable version 3 of firefux I sat here and began to wonder why google push it so much, but then firefox = googlesearch as standard = google dollars +google toolbar = all gravy combo company pushing.

Either way I supppppose firefox has served me fairly well despite its memory issues, I do like how when I move computers I don’t have to do sod all other than copy bookmark files etc and I do like tab abuse and the huge collection of fairly well made plugins. I mean lets face it firefox trumps microsofts dishwasher anyday.
In appreciation, and because they are trying to get more people using it so googlezilla becomes even more of a monopoly and gets more dollars per household heres some random photo firefoxage. If you want credit for these images mail my ass @ seounderworld.com

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Filed under Big G, software : Comments (0) : Jun 17th, 2008

IP’s - Need a bit of anonymity? Get anonymous with your router

It is fairly often that when doing mischievous things on the internet that anonymity is an essential requirement. I have just been reading shady’s lost art of proxy scanning, an excellent read if your concerned with who’s looking over your shoulder.

Traditionally proxies fit this bill - adding a barrier between yourself and your deeds much like the infamous “glove box” that stops scientists spilling nuclear stuff all over their fingers. If you are doing a ton of stuff and need a lot of different IP’s second to second, in an automatic style this is probably your best bet, as proxy’s are easy to mess with in code.

Something I have always done though that as I see it has been widely missed or unacknowledged at least, (I am not sure if this is a uk specific thing or whether it counts for all ISP’s) is abuse my ISP.

What I mean is that unless you pay extra with your broadband for a static ip address (likely if your hosting your own) then you are automatically assigned an IP address when your router connects to the ISP. So literally to get a fresh IP address (and I mean completely different - if your with BT for example they have millions to hand out) just disconnect your router and reconnect.

It is physically that simple. I haven’t bothered automating this (although sure a little router hack script would do it simply) but it does work for me - perhaps theres limitations I can’t see - and it doesn’t help if your doing really naughty shiz cos your ISP will still know you.

Still - Widely underused if you ask me ;)

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Filed under Anonymity, IP Related : Comments (5) : Jun 14th, 2008

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