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Our
Website Hacking Experience: And Why GoDaddy
Sucked
Anyone that
visits us semi-regularly knows that we hacked on Tuesday, November
6th. Here's the inside scoop. I was online
that morning, at 1:38 am, and I was working to upload new articles, I
began seeing things disappear from my FTP (the folder on the server
that holds all of our files). It was being wiped out
very quickly. How could this
have happened, I wondered? GoDaddy.com, my hosting company,
recommends that you choose a password for your website that is 7-14
characters, a combination of letters and numbers, with a variation of
capital and lowercase letters. I did have that. I never once
thought about the security of my site - never thought anyone would be
malicious enough to delete information on how to contact your political
representatives, alternative health methods, where to find breast cancer
info, tributes to Veterans, ways to stop animal abuse, civil rights
petitions, news and advice on important issues from A to
Z. Never
underestimate the true dark character of some people in this
world. As soon as I saw
the items being deleted, I got on the phone with GoDaddy. I quickly
explained what was happening, and the representative I spoke with could
see it being wiped out on his end as well - he marked it a security issue,
which he said waived the $150 "data restore" fee, since he saw it with his
own eyes and was unable to stop it from happening. We went in and
changed the hosting password right away, but it takes time for that change
to set in, and it didn't happen fast enough - I lost absolutely
everything. The rep was very
kind, and told me that the data would be restored to what was on my site
the previous day - Monday - within 24 to 72 hours. Four days later,
nothing was restored yet, so I called them.
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A Song
We Received About Nancy Pelosi
Thanks to Yikes McGee for sending us this original song about Nancy Pelosi... |
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News
Roundup: Other News You Don't Want to Miss Celebrity: You Can Buy Johnny Depp's Handprints Source: EsmereldaSays Crime: Gas Price War Takes Deadly Turn in Detroit Source: ABC News Crime: Barry Bonds Indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice Source: The Smoking Gun Green Living: Insulating Windows with Bubble Wrap Source: Build it Solar Politics: Bush Embarrassed by New Attorney General Source: U.K. Telegraph Politics: War Bills From Both Parties Fail in Senate Source: New York Times U.S. News: Feds OK Drought Deal Letting Georgia Keep More Water Source: CNN U.S. News: Thousands March Against Race Crimes in Washington Source: Reuters War: Soldiers Suffering Mental Problems Months After Return Source: Sun Sentinel War: Army Desertion Rates Up 80% Since War Began Source: Huffington Post World News: Train Strikes Continue in France and Germany Source: Wall Street Journal World News: Red Cross Monitors Barred from Guantanamo Source: Truthout |
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John
Travolta Sucks Face With Kirk Douglas
At the Santa Barbara Film Festival yesterday, being honored and such, John Travolta planted a kiss on Kirk Douglas - right on the lips. Look at Kirk's face, it's hilarious! Kirk, 90, had his eyes wide opened and looked terrified. This isn't the first time Travolta, 53, has tried to suck face with a dude...he was caught kissing his male nanny on the lips last year:
Just look at that stretch! John Travolta has dodged sexuality questions over the years, actually - and he married fellow Scientologist Kelly Preston shortly after the National Enquirer ran a story about a supposed two-year affair between Travolta and a male porn star. You know, I remember reading an article recently about how Kelly and John slept in different rooms at a hotel, and Kelly joked to a fellow guest that it's because of John's snoring. Hmmm... It's a slow news day when I'm talking about this. Click here if you want an even closer-up pic. |
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Animal Lovers Corner: Kitty Gets A Ride Home
Daily
Awww! Click here to read about a kitty that gets a ride home every morning. |
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Not
Kidding You: Immigrant Tasered to Death by Canadian
Police
Shocking:
Click here to read the article and see the incident on video. Was this man tasered to death? The CBC says up to 18 people have been in Canada since 2003. |
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Desperate Housewives Shut Down for Hollywood
Strike
Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria delivers pizza to Writers Guild of America strikers last week as Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy take to the picket lines. PopSugar and BuzzSugar tell is that the show 24 is delayed indefinitely and that there are only two more episodes of The Office before it goes into reruns - already! Just click here to go read the scoop. I can't help it, I still don't like Eva Longoria. 1) She wears fur, 2) She spends way too much money on her clothes, 3) She totally robbed the cradle, and 4) She just plain annoys me. |
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Speaking of
PopSugar...
As if we didn't love PopSugar enough, they just came out with a new sister site called PetSugar, a site about cool stuff for pets. Above? A micromini litterbox for small rodents like hamsters, gerbils, and mice. Yes, they have the coolest posts. Go check them out! |
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Does
It Bother You Where People Scatter Their Ashes?
Workers a Anaheim theme park had an attraction at Disneyland closed down and police alerted after they saw a guest on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride sprinkling something strange into the water. "A witness described the substance as a baby powder that quickly dissipated," a Disneyland resort spokesman said. "We reopened the attraction after determining that there was no hazard to our guests." It turns out, that it may not in fact have been baby powder - after all, who sprinkles baby powder off of the side of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride? - but in fact, human ashes. People scatter their ashes at sea, from the air, at national parks, even on baseball fields, despite laws in many states that forbid it. It's forbidden at Disneyland, but it's hard to enforce. The state of California has a law that forbids scattering human ashes even on privately-owned land.
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Nancy
Grace released from hospital after labor
complications
CNN headline news anchor Nancy Grace checked into the hospital last weekend over complications from giving birth prematurely to her twins, John David and Lucy Elizabeth, on November 4th. Grace, 48, developed pulmonary edema. Her husband, David Linch, told People Magazine that she had "a really bad bout of shortness of breath." Her condition worsened and she was brought back to the hospital. "I woke up at 5 a.m. and she was sitting at the side of the bed and really having trouble breathing," Linch said. "We were getting ready to go to church and Nancy asked me to take her to the emergency room instead." An X-ray and CAT scan revealed small blod clots and fluid in her lungs. She is now okay, and the twins' condition is steadily improving. Grace is back at home in Atlanta with her husband, and the twins are still under the doctor's care. Isn't she a little old to be having babies? When they're in high school, she'll be 63 years old...we're glad everyone is okay, though. |
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Video footage has been released in Canada
showing the last moments of an immigrant who died after being stunned
with a Taser by police. 
