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Facebook Monkey Prank

Submitted by chris on Sun, 12/28/2008 - 23:57
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I saw a Facebook user have his account hijacked recently, and used to spam a lot of contacts with wall messages pointing his mates to sites (DON'T VISIT THESE SITES) like -

  • sobgroan.com
  • scrambleweep.com
  • whipchime.com
  • floatfaint.com
  • slideleap.com
  • votebeep.com
  • singhoot.com
  • roargroan.com
  • clapspray.com
  • wavehum.com
  • gigglesail.com
  • thumpwish.com
  • spoilroll.com
  • spoilhike.com
  • ridepush.com
  • swinghiss.com

I don't know you people!

Submitted by chris on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 15:06

I logged into OldFriends for the first time in bloody ages, and they wanted me to walk nine miles through some crazy process clicking "I don't know this person" on all 5000 people who'd registered from any school I ever attended. This seemed like a really stupid thing to make people do, so I wrote a JS bookmark to skip the remaining 49 pages of bad UI.

Walter today posted a GreaseMonkey script which inspired me to make it more proper.

So now there are a couple of ways you can install it:

please be not alarmed

Submitted by chris on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:51

we are transitioning from glob v0 to glob v0.0

please enjoy the new poo-brown theme

cheerio

fails-at-po-boxes-too

Submitted by xurizaemon on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 14:31
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nz-post-continues-to-fail

Submitted by xurizaemon on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 14:02
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Seaview Road, Piha. Or Paihia. But not Waitakere. Thanks, NZ Post.

Submitted by xurizaemon on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 13:56
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In a flash of inspiration, NZ Post decided to change the postcodes for a lot of new Zealand's mail delivery. And to solve the confusion, they installed a Very Flash Postcode Finder on their website.
According to NZ Post's website, Seaview Road, Piha ... does not exist. Or rather, it is not located in any of the following towns or cities:

  • Piha
  • Auckland
  • Waitakere

Searching the very high-tech but not very accurate NZ Post PostCode Finder in order to get a correct address for your mail results in this:

you meant paihia

If you think you live in the cities of Auckland or Waitakere, you're sadly mistaken:

not in auckland

not in waitakere

Luckily for them, Brad - our marvellous postman - refuses to acknowledge their denial of our existence. We still get our mail.

Update: NZ Post only recognise this address if I state it as being in New Lynn, 30km away.

google map - piha to new lynn

If I give it correctly, stating the name of the actual town, NZ Post gets it wrong by 272km.

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About

Submitted by chris on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 19:20
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hey, this is our about page, it will tell you about us. so, what did you want to know again?

hunter, saira, tui and chris live in piha.

you can reach us on +64 9 812 8174

Raglan Transition Town on Campbell Live

Submitted by chris on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 10:17
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For more info, check out Transition Towns Aotearoa

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