funny bits of april 2011

1.  Re: Did Skynet destroy zone us-east-1c?

With amazon`s cloud service going down in late april, there was a little wondering wether there was something special going on... like: skynet going active ;))

Please see:
* https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=238872#238872
* http://technorati.com/technology/article/skynet-goes-active-terminator-judgment-dayapril/


Well, that meme isn`t uncommon:
* http://thedailywtf.com/gsearchresults.aspx?cx=007080070087309103660%3Au1mb5rvqdbu&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=skynet&sa=Search#986

Especially the following section:

* http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ImportantFunction%28%29,-IsNumber%28%29,-and-More%28%29.aspx

"
"I found this in the middle of a Ruby on Rails project that I'm working on," writes Matt Grande, "I'm tempted to set it to true..."

class Skynet < ActiveRecord::Base
  # DO NOT SET TO TRUE!
  def self.is_aware(aware)
    if aware
      return "Must DESTORY John Connor!"
    else
      return "2:13am EDT August 29, 1997..."
    end
  end

"

end

2. animals care for each other: a blind dog is lead by a goose


* http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2011/04/seeing-eye-goose-befriends-blind-dog.html



3. Security by Post-It: thedailywtf
* http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Security-by-PostIt.aspx