July 19, 2008
Comic Con... dear god...
Where I can found for Comic Con this year.
THURSDAY
12:00 - 1:00 Signing at the Dark Horse (Booth #2615)
3:00 - 4:00 Signing at the IDW booth
FRIDAY
4:30 - 5:30 Vertigo Panel (Room 5AB)
SATURDAY
11:00 - 12:00 Hellboy Panel (Room 8)
SUNDAY
Aimlessly walking around Artist Alley
In other news...
Could Comic-Con leave San Diego?
"As the event has exploded in popularity over the past decade, organizers have found it increasingly hard to ignore the logistical limitations presented by wrangling more than 125,000 attendees into the San Diego Convention Center, where the show is booked through 2012. From fire-code violations to body-odor issues, overcrowding is the complaint on everybody's lips."
Click here for the full story... Crowding an issue as L.A, Vegas try luring event.
July 03, 2008
July 02, 2008
Nemesis Required
From the job's postings section of Craigslist entitled, "Nemesis required. 6-month project with possibilty to extend"...
"...in short, I need a nemesis. I'm willing to pay $350 up front for you services as an arch enemy over the next six months... British accent preferred." [sic]
Full posting here
July 01, 2008
FBI Charges Blind Phone Phreak With Intimidating a Verizon Security Official
Matthew Weigman, a blind hacker who has been under investigation since he was 15 years-old has been arrested just two months after his 18th birthday.
The article (linked below) is fascinating. However, even more interesting are the two recorded phone calls you can listen to on the sidebar. One is of Weigman making an inter-company call to a Verizon phone operator and posing as a fellow phone employee to fish for data. The other is of Weigman making a 2005 "swatting" call that sent police to the Colorado home of Richard Gasper, a TSA screener whose daughter refused phone sex with Weigman.
Fascinating stuff.
Click here for the article.
Up until now Weigman, who was taking in by FBI already once in December of 2007 (while still a minor) has, up until now, been known only as "Li'l Hacker" by the press. As of turning 18, he's no longer protected by juvenile civility laws.
Here's the article from last December.
