Breakfast Links: MySpace, Cat Bus & Hamsters
Ok, ran across a couple stories about high schoolers making fake MySpace pages to get at their principals. Here’s one where the principal seems to have overreacted, although, I’d say understandably given that the page apparently suggested he had sex with students. And another that was probably more just generalized silliness that an outraged highschool student might post because of a school’s policy on piercings. None of these things are surprising, kids are going to use the tools at their disposal. Generous application of Tor and Mailinator (which has a stated no logs policy so he doesn’t have to deal with such things) might have even saved them a little grief. It’s things like this that make me worry about sites such as RateMyTeacher, you know? Not the site or the site’s goal, just kids will be kids, and it turns out they can get a little pissed at the authority figures in their lives.
Phew, maybe that should have been a whole post. Back to the good stuff, a cat that takes the bus! Apparently Macavity (the name they gave him) gets on and off the bus at the same stops several times a week. Now, normally I’d think this is the kind of thing that was a big of a hoax, but it’s in the paper so it’s gotta be true, right?
And at last the holy grail of the green and privacy movement. A hamster powered shredder that uses the shredding as the hamster bedding! No one’s going to reassemble your hamster peed and pooped documents now! No electricity, exercise for the hamster, it’s the perfect device. And the madscientist/artist’s name who built this? Tom Ballhatchet. Imagine growing up with that name.
