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The Isle of Wight is The Island Classroom! We have dozens of visitor attractions perfect for learning as well as fun, supported by 704 expertly prepared curriculum-relevant resources!
Our local experts are ready to help you choose the best mix of venues and attractions to fill your itinerary - simply tell us what you want to get out of the trip either from an educational or pastoral point of view and we'll point you in the right direction. All of our itineraries are 100% bespoke so we won't rest until you're totally happy with your selection.
As well as our partner attractions shown above, we can include dozens of other great Island learning venues in your itinerary too at no additional cost:
Adgestone Vineyard
Go underground into one of the oldest commercial wine cellars in England. Enjoy the free-ranging chickens and treasure hunt. A 1-hour audio guide tour of the 10-acre site will leave you amazed at the process involved in turning a small plant into an award-winning wine.
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Alum Bay Glass
Art Studio£
The making of fine quality glass has always held a fascination. The glassmaker's art has resulted in some of the most beautiful objects mankind has made. The master glassmakers take Alum Bay coloured sands and turn them into glass objects right before your very eyes!
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A huge range of unusual rare and exotic animals - around 200 species spanning the entire animal kingdom!
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Appuldurcombe House
Historic BuildingFREE
The shell of Appuldurcombe, once the grandest house on the Isle of Wight, is an important example of English baroque Architecture: the 1701 east front has now been restored. It stands in 'Capability' Brown-designed grounds. An exhibition of photographs and prints depict the house and its history.
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Bembridge Fort
Historic Building££
Bembridge Forst has long been a subject of interest to both local people and holidaymakers - now you are able to see inside and discover its history.
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Bembridge Lifeboat Station
Emergency ServiceFREE
Bembridge lifeboat station is classified as a key station by the RNLI and is strategically situated in the Solent, home to the busiest shipping lanes used by over 100,000 commercial ships each year and countless pleasure craft.
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Inside you can climb the tower, learn how the mill worked and look for the secret millers. Outside there are walking trails and nature trails.
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Borthwood Copse
Ancient WoodlandFREE
Red squirrels, carpets of woodland flowers and plenty of trees will line your walk. Enjoy getting closer to nature.
Bouldnor Forest
Ancient WoodlandFREE
A 105 hectare peaceful nature reserve set within an AONB on the Heritage Coast. Accessible habitats include heathlands, ponds, a conifer plantation and mature woodland. Lots of red squirrels. Bouldnor Battery, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is also on site.
Butterfly World
Animal Attraction££
An opportunity to learn more about butterflies and visit Italian & Japanese gardens, koi ponds, fountains and jumping jets.
Calbourne Water Mill
Historic Building££
Set in 35 acres of stunning rural landscape, there is much to do once you are on site including exploring an ancient oak woodland and boating on the pond. Also home to a war museum.
Chessell Pottery Barns
Art Studio£££
Paint your own pieces under the expert instruction of potters.
Classic Boat Museum
From unique trophies loaned by Dame Ellen MacArthur to classic wooden boats of international renown, there is something of interest to both children and adults.
Combley Roman Villa
Historic Building£££
Set within the grounds of Robin Hill Country Park, the site of Combley Roman Villa is clearly marked out and is accompanied by an interpretation barn adjacent.
Dimbola Museum & Galleries
Dimbola Lodge is now a museum and gallery dedicated to Julia Margaret Cameron's life and work, and also showcases contemporary exhibitions from photographers around the globe.
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Fort Victoria Country Park
Built on the north shore of the Isle of Wight to guard the Solent, the remains of Fort Victoria now house a number of visitor attractions including an underwater archaeology centre ("Sunken Secrets"), Planetarium and Model Railway. Entry to the park is free but the attractions (and parking) are chargeable.
Hovertravel Ltd
Hovertravel provides the fastest Isle of Wight ferry service across the Solent and is the world's longest running and only commercial hovercraft operator in Europe.
Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum
The museum has a varied collection of vintage buses and coaches on display, the majority of which served a good proportion of their working lives operating on the Isle of Wight.
A family-run zoo with a special interest in tigers and lemurs. The zoo is set within the ruins of a Victorian fort built to guard Sandown's coast, facing one of the Island's best beaches. Once upon a time the zoo owners walked tiger cubs on the beach, and the zoo is still fondly remembered locally for this!
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Set in a picturesque location alongside the River Medina yet just a couple of minutes from all the facilities in Newport, Medina Valley Centre offers a wide range of educational activities from watersports to environmental studies.
Monkey Haven
Animal Attraction££
Monkey Haven is a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates and birds of prey who are in desperate need of care and attention. The animals housed at the Haven have come to us for various reasons; they may have been bullied within their original groups, or unsuitable for breeding programmes: some of our raptors are injured native birds that would be unable to fend for themselves in the wild.
Needles Old & New Battery
Historic Building££
Victorian coastal defences and secret rocket testing site perched high above the Needles rocks! Visitors can explore the worlds of the Old and New batteries, enjoying sweeping coastal views and family activities. Discover the vital role it played in Britain's defence history and the 'race for space'.
A Romano-British farmhouse constructed in 280AD and rediscovered in 1926 when the owners of a nearby house sank foundations for a new garage. Subsequent excavations revealed extensive remains of a farmhouse built around 280AD. These well-preserved remains provide a fascinating insight into country life in third century Britain.
Newtown Town Hall
Historic Building£
A 17th Century town hall with no town ... but a fascinating history! Newtown Old Town Hall was built in 1256 and is the town hall of the former mediaeval and later rotten borough of Newtown. Newtown is now a small village.
Parkhurst Forest
Ancient WoodlandFREE
At 395 hectares this publicly-accessible forest is a haven for wildlife including red squirrents and many species of birds and owls.
Puckpool Park
Historic BuildingFREE
The park houses one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it from invasion. As well as a fascinating tour of the battery, the park features many leisure activities including a play park, crazy golf, tennis courts, a woodland walk, access to the beach and much more.
Quarr Abbey
Place of worshipFREE
The Abbey of Our Lady of Quarr is a monastery which is home to a small group of Benedictine monks who strive to dedicate their lives to God, and whose day is characterised by prayer, work and community life. There is a fascinating visitor centre, walks of the gardens including fruit & vegetable plots managed by the monks, and animals such as pigs and sheep. Visit the monastery, its chapel and graveyard, and the ruins of the original chapel. Access to the beach.
Sandown Pier
Historic BuildingFREE
Victorian pier now featuring a range of indoor and outdoor amenities including a funfair, play area, arcade and cafes.
Shanklin Chine
Coastal Feature££
A leafy wooded ravine with waterfalls and abundant wildlife, plus arts and heritage centre. Shanklin Chine is one of 20-ish Chines of the Isle of Wight.
St Catherine's Oratory
Historic BuildingFREE
A tall medieval octagonal tower, allegedly a lighthouse, built here in 1328 as penance for stealing church property from a wrecked ship. Affectionately known as the Pepperpot, it stands on one of the highest parts of the Isle of Wight. A later lighthouse (St Catherine's) can be seen nearby.
St Catherines Lighthouse
Historic Building££
One of the oldest lighthouses in Great Britain, St Catherine's was established on the orders of the then Pope in 1323 after a ship ran aground nearby.
STEM Centre at IW College
Teaching Facility££
One of the UK's most advanced STEM teaching and resource centres designed to help meet the future employment needs of the Island's advanced engineering, electronic and aerospace employers. The centre opened its doors in summer 2015 and Education Destination are delighted to be able to offer activities and taster sessions to our groups!
See below for a menu of typical activities enjoyed by our visiting student groups, and for more information about the outstanding range of opportunities available here!
The Chink
Coastal FeatureFREE
A scenic rock cleft with steps descending from St Boniface Down to the Bonchurch landslips below
The Devil's Chimney
Coastal FeatureFREE
A scenic rock cleft with steps descending from St Boniface Down to the Bonchurch landslips below
The Needles: Landmark Attraction
Pleasure Park£££
Home to the world famous coloured Alum Bay sands and the birthplace of radio, The Needles Park offers a perfect trade-off between learning and fun.
See the glassmaking process from end to end - from the collecting and processing of the sands through to the skills of the blower. Or take a ride on the breathtaking chairlift down the chine and onto the beach to see erosion in action on a daily basis in the shadow of the Needles.
Learn about Marconi's very first radio broadcasts from the Isle of Wight and see confectionery being made.
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West Wight Alpacas
Animal Attraction££
Meet more than 70 alpacas plus lots of llamas and other animals! Now home to well over 100 animals including around 12 llamas. As well as petting and feeding, walks and treks can be arranged for groups.
Mixed Ability resources are suitable for all ability levels within the specified Key Stage.
You will notice that either ALL aspects of the resource are suitable for all abilities, or that the activities are grouped into sections so that you can direct students accordingly - these resources typically progress in difficulty or offer enrichment tasks for higher ability students.
Lower Ability resources are differentiated especially to appeal to less capable students in the selected Key Stage.
These activities are introduced using less challenging language and feature prompts which are not present in other versions of the resource. For example, in word-finding activities the lower ability version might include letter counts or other clues.
Where differentiated resources are provided, these are generally produced in two or three variants to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed year group, and are carefully designed such that they all take around the same amount of time to complete.
Mid Ability resources are differentiated to appeal to average students in the selected Key Stage.
These activities use carefully considered language and will often be simplified compared to high ability versions of the resource. For example, in mathematics activities numbers might be deliberately rounded to make calculations more straightforward or avoid fractions.
Where differentiated resources are provided, these are generally produced in two or three variants to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed year group, and are designed such that they all take around the same amount of time to complete.
High Ability resources are differentiated especially to appeal to the most capable students in the selected Key Stage.
These activities generally offer more challenging questions, or additional tasks to enrich the overall experience and learning available.
Where differentiated resources are provided, these are generally produced in two or three variants to cope with the range of abilities in a mixed year group, and are carefully designed such that they all take around the same amount of time to complete..


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- One of Rockford's mayoral candidates is jumping in on the spat over an ad campaign put out by Rockford's Police Union.
Today, republican candidate Michael Kleen called the dispute between incumbent independent Larry Morrissey and democrat Jim Hughes a distraction. Kleen told reporters he wants to focus on the issues facing Rockford. Mayor Morrissey is accusing Hughes of violating election laws by placing links to the Police Union's ads on his campaign website and Facebook page. Kleen called the feud petty and says it's time to move on.
"I think the voters need to hear the candidates talk about the issues that are important to them. Mayor Morrissey's feud with the Rockford police union is undermining the morale of the department and its making us all less safe," said Kleen.
Hughes and the Police Union have denied Morrissey's accusations, The State Board of Elections will decide if any campaign laws were broken.

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MT Comment SpamJanuary 12, 2004
So let's say you run a reasonably popular weblog that's open to comments from anyone and everyone. Let's also say in the same breath that you don't necessarily believe that turning off comments on older entries is a good way of squashing the comment spam problem, though it is terribly effective. For the sake of completeness, let's also say that you've bought into the idea that blacklists are inherently flawed, a losing proposition, and so you haven't bothered using them.
But let's also say that you have received a proportionately infinitesimal volume of spam despite it all, given how attractive a target your weblog must be.
What gives?
Well, I was going to tell you about the two days of battling spam I had this weekend. I was going to tell you how, by keeping on top of it, you could have eliminated the need for things like Blacklists and such. I was going to cover how spammers use Google to find open targets, and by reducing your spam profile you could have used other people's lack of security as a buffer to protect yourself.
But then I saw this (thanks Mark) and I realized that all bets are off. This is the same thing that happened to me this weekend. The free ride is over. Comments on older posts are getting turned off today, and comments on future posts will be scattered and available only for a short time. It was fun while it lasted.
I don't like it, but that's the sound of inevitability.
update: Six Apart released MT 2.66 on 01/14/04, which introduces new measures to combat comment spam.
Reader Comments
> MT's default comment form doesn't validate under XHTML Strict ('name' attributes not allowed in form tags).
Which XHTML? One site I administer validates with the name attribute in input tags (it's XHTML 1.0 Strict). In fact, removing the name attribute breaks it because browsers don't send the id attribute with the data, they send the name attribute.
My logware of choice now has comment moderation, but then the burden goes to the administrator in approving comments made.
I have advocated the platform-independent "register for a commenting handle" idea before, but I don't know how that doesn't scale without some serious bank behind it … and if Google did it, the tin-hats of the blogosphere would shit a brick.
I miss the bad old days when GreyMatter disabled comments after the entry slipped off the front page of your log. I really like the idea of disabling comments after N days–if folks really want to comment a year later, let 'em send you an email.
I maintain a very boring little personal blog that only a few of my friends and family bother to read, yet I've been the victim of plenty of comment spam. How I fought it was to introduce a robots.txt that denied requests from all. This may not be good for sites that want to be shown on Google, but I haven't gotten a spam comment on any entries made since I implemented the robots.txt
This might be useful information to people trying to fight comments spam.
i went through a period where i was getting spam every day. i went the closing comments route. because i don't get a ton of visitors and old entries don't usually get comments anyway. i also changed the name of the comments form. that's helped some. i've seen referrals from search engines looking for the mt-comments.cgi and all they get is my 404 page.
i still get some now and again, but i don't think it's from a spam bot.
Good idea, it won't harm to much but will help a lot to keep posts clean.
I SWEAR I wrote this and posted it already, but here we go again.
All in all, this is a very sad development. It pains me to see comments or entire weblogs driven away by spammers. How I address this problem now is an optional moderation, which I toggle occassional. The moderation allows me approve comments before they are posted. I can also approve/delete through one click from the notification email or do a bunch at a time online. The next step is to allow most comments through but only hold comments for moderation that have spam keywords or some other trigger.
My tiny tiny blog that gets very few hits or comments - I'm something like 150:100 posts:comments - has been deluged lately as well… 15 spam posts in the last few days. It's getting pretty ridiculous. Some of them aren't even attempts to raise google ratings, they're just idiotic, like one saying 'nice photo' in reply to an entry without a photo.
The best part of all is that my comments don't display e-mail addresses or website URLs, so it's even more pointless.
I've come up with a proposal that could help curb spam on blogs:
I don't know how well it would work, but it would have to be widely used to be effective.
I merely skimmed the comments, so forgive me if I'm repeating someone else.
I recently posted about the same problem and someone was kind enough to point me to this plugin for MT:
Haven't had time to try it out, but from what I read, it looks pretty promising…
I've put a little more thought into this whole thing, and here's what came out.
Because the reason for this spam is PageRank for the spammers' clients, Google really ought to come forward with a solution. They aren't to blame for the spam, by no means, and I really like the company. But, as the world's most popular search engine, and with such influence, they have the responsibility to make sure their technology doesn't cause problems for the web it depends on.
Saying that, here's what I would suggest if I were a Google insider.
Long ago, search engines used meta tags to index web pages. Unfortunately, these were abused, so most search engines don't take them into account. However, the reason the tags could be abused was because they were a means of *boosting* their search rank by telling robots what to index. What we need is something that does the opposite, telling search engines what *not* to index. I proposed a possible way to do that in the link on my last comment.
The gist of it is that you would surround your comments with some sort of identifier, thus telling indexing robots that the information shouldn't be indexed.
However, Dave pointed out (in the comments at that link) that telling search engines not to index your comments would mean they wouldn't be part of legitimate search queries. I too can attest to the fact that blog comments often have very good information, and that wouldn't be desirable.
We could have something telling robots to index the content but not the links. That way, spammers wouldn't improve their PageRank, and searchers would still find comments among their search results. However, I can't see how that would be a general standard, due to the fact that link indexing isn't used by all search engines (at least, not the same way Google does it).
So, perhaps Google could come forward with a way to let its bot know that certain content shouldn't be considered for PageRank linkage. Or, perhaps the bot could simply rate links in the section lower than the website's actual PageRank, as opposed to not indexing them at all.
Whatever the case, if a solution is to be had, Google will certainly have to play a key role in it (and perhaps in coming up with it).
All that said, I think the best way to keep spam from gaining PageRank is the redirect script mentioned earlier. The only problem is, not everyone's blog has means of using such a script (though since MovableType is dominant and is server-side, the majority blogs should be able to employ one). Some of those who do may not have the knowledge to put one forth.
Perhaps someone should write a MovableType plugin that automatically turns comment links over to the redirect script. That would make it easy for non-technical MT users to use. If a good number of blogs use it, there will no longer be a profit in comment spam because there will be no more PageRank to gain from it.
Of course, by "a good number of blogs", I mean almost every MT-powered blog out there. If the majority of a spammer's hit list still has unprotected comments, those with the plugin will still get spam.
Perhaps Six Apart would consider putting the plugin into the default package…
Besides all that, whether the spam stops or not, it's good to make sure that at least *your* site isn't giving out spam PageRank.
Whew… Sorry, that was kind of long and meandering… I'll continue to think about this, and hopefully come up with something feasible.
Movable Type seems to be easy to spam… you're not the only one with this particular problem…
Oh my word. Automated blog spamming…but just for MT (for now).
I bet that's another reason to move over to another cms…
But still, couldn't someone write a anti-MTspam plugin. Doesn't the auto-spam have some way to be identified, a certain watermark or anything?
That's the problem with popularity. Once your tool reaches a certain level of acceptance it becomes a target for others to use/abuse. Switching to another CMS might work for awhile until that CMS becomes popular or some jerk-off finds a way to make a more generic blog spammer that encompasses many CMS/blogger tools.
What ever happened to the 'not displaying the posters url/not auto-linking urls' method? It may not be ideal but it's a far greater method than just turning comments off.
I think the best route would be to develop a MT plugin that asked a simple question (as opposed to using an obfuscated image). It doesn't even have to be a facts database, per se ("What is three times five?").
Hrm. Perhaps its time for me to learn Perl.
zlog – I wouldn't leave it to spammers to be so discerning. It's not worth the effort to spam a site that's turned off comment poster's URLs if you're doing it by hand, but if you're using automated software who cares? Obviously as the site owner I do, but it's not like I have a say in this.
Josh: wow. That's a terrific idea. I am reminded of a quote by Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"That is really amazing," he said. "That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it."
And I will, if you won't mind. ;)
Dave: You have a point.
Wouldn't spammers waste (ermm use?) resources in a more advantages way? E.g. that site isn't sending anyone our way, move on to the next site (there's plenty to choose from). My method would be at least a deterrent.
(For the record: zlog has never received any comment spam. Not once. Honestly.)
Just a thought, I don't know mt at all and this could be interpreted as a bit of a hack, but what about having a piece of text (no images, real text) that has to be either typed in or cut and pasted into a box located with the personal information?
Check the text vs. a textfile or database and if it's there the comment goes up, if not they get three swings, third strike their ip is banned for x hours.
Have 20-30 strings of text that rotate, so it's never the same. Or even generate a random string and check against the random string so it's 'never the same'.
This would be an accessible approach (I think), and relatively easy to set up. You'd be setting yourself apart from the masses again, thereby 'reducing your spam profile'…
(apologies in advance if this idea is way out to lunch).
Sure, but it won't stop real humans from spamming:
Of course, you're talking about little potential profit from non-automated spamming, but perhaps a combination of the Extremely Simplified Turing Test and MT-Blacklist might prove fruitful.
Well I have been turning off comments on older posts since I started my site and it helps kill two things: spam and forgotten comments. Stopping spam is the greatest advantage, but the other is when someone posts a comment on an entry that is a couple of months old. Sort of like does a tree make a noise when falling if no one is around to hear it?
If you use MT with MySQL as the backend, check out this script to automatically disable comments after a week:
Might solve your problem until a new version of MT comes out that automates this.
I haven't yet had this problem (not since I restarted my weblog a few months ago at least), but I'm hoping that the comment registration that was announced for the next version of MT will help…
Does this sound feasible: a service for blogs commenting authentication.
Of course, there are users who will shy away from posting, because they do not want to divulgate too much personal information just for a comment (as opposed to a forum). Still, this service must work for all interested blogs for it to be successful. A user will only have to register once; but authenticate for a new session. There should be some sandbox to make it difficult for spammers to join this.
Moreover, a blog administrator can lower every visitor's security clearance to a minimum. By this, a user will have restricted access to the blog's extra features (such as posting comments). One must be registered to earn the right to gain more features.
Hmm, how about this? If you have played an RPG (role-playing game) before, you will be aware of the experience points a player acquires by doing certain actions. Perhaps this can be useful in this blog service as well. Let's say a subscriber to this blog service has been registered for over a year without posting something considered as spam, the subscriber will gain some experience points. After a determinate amount of points, this subscriber will "level up" and gain more privileges. At anytime, posting spam will make the subscriber lose experience. If you want to be ruthless, you can use a three-strikes-you're-out method. But, what happens if some veteran used an account up to level 50, and then some evil genius compromises that account and wipes it clean by spamming three times?
What do you think? I think it sounds complicated to implement, since not every blog owner uses MT. Anyone adventurous enough to try this? ^_^
Okay people, time to get thick-skinned… Every man for themselves! Make your own CMS. j/k of course. :D
Boy does this suck. I rather like Josh's idea and enjoyed the gratuitous Adams quote so I say try it and see how users respond! Maybe I'll try it myself…
"Joey has 5 apples. Susie has 3…" Oh the fun.
I'm not worried about humans manually spamming my comments. That's more-or-less a fair fight. It's the robo-posters, like the one that hit Dave over the weekend, that are the real threat.
And, as I said in the above-mentioned post (the third in a series on Comment Spam, the first two being
) the robots can be beaten.
The only thing that surprises me about the attack that hit Dave's blog over the weekend is that it took until now for it to happen. These spambots have been around for months.
And there are plenty of things Dave could do besides shutting down old comments, though that certainly is a start…
Really, all, there's not much you can suggest that hasn't been suggested long ago. Drop 'movable type comment spam' into Google and get 200k results. From image- and question-based challenging, to global/local authentication, to Goldbergian-type chain reactions of Javascript and Perl/PHP/whatever, it's all been covered. This is the e-mail arms race all over again, and last time I checked I'm pretty sure the spammers are winning that one.
Turning off comments on old entries is easy and effective. If Six Apart releases MT3.0 with significant, and I mean significant security updates that make batch deleting spam easy, individual spam posting harder, and don't piss of the commenters themselves, I'll look into it. Until that point I won't be applying patch upon patch to stay one step ahead, when I've got a clear way out. It's not worth my time (or yours).
There are many solutions for fighting email spam which have become pretty effective. Why do you think the spammers are winning that race?
This is really sad to hear.
In my opinion comments are about 75% of what makes blogs (and related sites) valuable. I know it would be very hard for me to keep my site going if I didn't have that sense of community and building a connection with my readers.
There was a day a few months back where I thought seriously about killing the whole site because of comment spam. I felt like turning of the comments would make the site no longer worth maintaining.
The Web is about people and making connections and it fucking kills me that there are folks out there who have no problems killing everything the Web is about with things like spam.
Email spam is a tough case. After all, you're saddled with the SMTP protocol, which you can't go about breaking.
Comment-spam is totally different. The only thing that makes robot-posting of comment spam feasible is software monoculture. There may not be a de jure Standard for spambot writers to code against, but there is a de facto one.
Break the mold, and the spambot writers are at a distinct disadvantage.
Or you could say, "I'll just wait for Six-Apart to come up with a solution, which I probably won't implement on my blog, anyway, because I don't want to replace my existing templates …"
So whats up with Blacklists Dave?
I can see a problem where users merge their blacklists with others, but not when used 'solo'. I've been using Jay Allen's Blacklist plug-in for months now, and its worked amazingly well. Only 2 comment spams have 'got in' in 3 months. When I check the activity logs, I can see all the refused comments, and feel that (for now at least) they're being held back well.
Summing up a lot of my thinking on patchwork hacks:
If I were armed with a MySQL back-end and a ton of canned SQL statements I could adapt to clean up after attacks, maybe I'd feel differently. But a) I'm not / I don't, and b) that would still require time and energy I really would rather spend elsewhere if you don't mind.
Yes, I'm aware of all the things I can do now:
See point b) above. Don't even dare dismiss it as laziness, because I'd genuinely do everything I could to keep on top of this if I felt it was an effective use of my time. I use Movable Type because I am not interested in building my tools, but using them.
Would it be possible to build an add-on for MT that would write out the name of "posted by" in javascript, similar to the output from hivelogic's hiveware enkoder?
Your latest decision is the best one you can make for now. That's what I've been doing for several months. I've only had one comment since then that looked like a setup test for automated spam, but nothing ever came of it. Nothing else since.
I've come to several realizations:
1. After a post is more than a week or two old, the number of new comments drop significantly, unless it's something that's evergreen and is getting linked to from all over. Those might merit staying open for comments a little longer.
2. The number of people interested in reading comments significantly dies down immediately after the number of new comments taper off.
3. Anyone making a comment more than two/three weeks after the original post is – 95% of the time – not adding anything significant or worthwhile for the site's author or any of the readership. At that point, comments would be best directed directly to the site's author(s) via email or a contact form.
4. Closing off comments after a period eliminates getting those weird ones from people who found a particular post from a Google search, but are not familiar with a site, and have no idea as to the typical content, its audience, or its etiquette and tone.
5. MT's default comment form doesn't validate under XHTML Strict ('name' attributes not allowed in form tags). If you remove the name, use ID instead, and modify the .js file to account for the changes, making such simple changes inhibits those who've written auto-spam scripts to target MT installs. One-off scripts aren't worth the trouble. Even more so when only 3-5 entries at most are still open for comments.
And finally: By avoiding writing anything about comment spam (and email spam in general) your site will show up in exactly 0 Google searches for any "spam" queries made by spammers looking for publishers who've written about the spam problem, are annoyed by it, or think they're now immune to it because of some new trick they've implemented. Defense by silent anonymity.
I'm in the process of creating my own (highly simplified) CMS to avoid this problem. After being such a fan of hand-coding, it seemed awful to use a system such as Movable Type to do my dirty work for me.
For me, comments have become one of the coolest aspects of blogging. On sites such as this one, the discussions that accompany posts can often be insightful and interesting, so it would be awful to see the spammers get the upper hand.
It's unfortunate that this has to happen, but you have to do what you can to stop I say. With a site with such large amounts of traffic, I would expect alot of spam…
Maybe it's just a problem with Movable Type now?
Hello all,
Here's an interesting (and slightly disturbing) story for you all. I work with a design and new media group who use a company to provide 'online publicity' services for them and their (quite big name) clients. I was chatting with one of the directors to other day and we got onto this subject.
It turns out that the online publicity is actually a bunch of convicts (I kid you not) who are paid a very small amount of money by an enterprising individual to trawl the web and make posts in places which will increase traffic to the site they are being paid to promote. Now according to him, they only post in valid places - such as a hi-fi enthusiasts BB for an audio equipment manufacturers website. But he didn't sound entirely convincing on this. And I can see them just littering the web with links pointing to the site in question.
All in all quite disturbing, and it doesn't bode well for being 100% successful in blocking comment spam. I was going to make a remark about being pleased about not using MT for this reason, but when I saw Josh's post 'Sure, but it won't stop real humans from spamming' I realised it made no difference.
fwiw: I think the asking a question idea is excellent. It reminds me of the authorisation schemes I remember from a few old computer games. They would prompt: Enter the 5th word from the 2nd line of the 3rd paragraph of page 23 of the manual. Very difficult to get around that one :-)
I'm working on something like what a few here have suggested - a simple system that draws words from a user's entry database and creates simple questions based on them. It's entirely accessible (doesn't use images) and should be very easy to use.
There are just a couple of issues to work out and then it'll be ready to go!
If anybody's interested in alpha testing, please drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I thought about a similar thing as well. It will certainly stop the current bots, but I'm sure it will be changed soon.
The thing is, there can only be so many questions. Even if you were to generate the questions randomly, the bot could parse them. A couple steps you could take include user-definable questions and obfuscation of the question and the word.
Well, the way I'm going to do it is to select words from each person's entries, so there won't be a specific "bank" of words. I suppose a bot could learn to parse the questions, but one could phrase them in any number of ways; it'd be quite difficult to do.
I know I'm late to the show here, but I've skimmed most of the comments on this. I have to laugh at all the discussion on comment spam.
I liken comment spam to the problem of having you car stolen. Bare with me. When you buy a car, you'd like to protect it. So, you go out and get one with an alarm, or have one installed. Whatever. Its the newest and best alarm system out there. Lets call this great alarm system the "Blacklist Alarm", if you follow… Its the best and greatest alarm from the greatest company so EVERYONE gets one.
So, now the car thieves have a new enemy. But, to their advantage, they have a common enemy: The Blacklist Alarm. So all they have to do is crack it once, and they gain access to every car with it. In essence, the new advanced, and more expensive (money can equal time developing here), alarm system has been reduced to basically the equivalent of putting a normal keyhole on a door of your car. Basically useless.
What do you do to protect your car then? Do you solder up all the doors and trunk, board up the windows, and cut out the engine, so even if they can get in, they can't get anywhere? No, cause that renders the car useless.
But, you can center on that fact that a car engine is the main reason they will be able to steal your car. They will drive your car away after they break in. So, what you have to do is find your own unique and secret way of cutting the engine. A kill-switch, in car terms.
And, while theives of course will eventually find your method out, only a few will be willing to invest the time into your car when there are many other, dumb ones right down the block.
So, I'm trying to get at this. Stop ganging up on spammers with common methods like blacklists or whatever else…. AND THEN DISCUSSING YOUR METHOD OF STOPPING THEM. You're handing the car thief the crowbar, screwdriver and hacksaw.
Whatever you're doing, make sure to at least punish the spammers:
meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"
I dont really have mind breaking solutions for such a thing.. i think you should see it as all teasing.. ignore it, and they'll move on.
it would be such a shame, to see such a popular site, as mezzoblue die..
[Quote]Okay people, time to get thick-skinned… Every man for themselves! Make your own CMS. j/k of course. :D[/Quote]
No, seriously, do it. This is no joke. I made mine 3 years ago and I'd be foolish to use MoveableType now. It takes some time to do it but you'll be rewarded in the end. Sure, it's not the best thing since sliced bread but I don't get any spam. Comments are essential to communication on the web and while disabling comments after a week will work today, the spammers know this and will make it possible for them to spam entries that are less than a week old. It's easy to give up and say the spammers have won and "It was fun while it lasted". The point many people have been making (if you still don't want to make your own CMS) is that there are things you can do. Change your field names. Do something - just don't give up.
I couldn't help it:
A long winded attempt at a solution. Like every other solution, it isn't perfect, but I think it should give 'em a run for the money.
I early November I submitted the following suggestion to beat comment-spam in TypePad. As far as I can imagine, the same must apply to MovableType
I was reading some past news articles on Wired - and came across this one about blogs being spammed.
Spammers Clog Up the Blogs
Ben, had two solutions:
- bulk deletion of comments generated by a particular IP address
- the ability to delete comments directly from notification e-mails sent every time a user posts
Neither of which solves the problem - It only provides you with a way to react after the spam is posted. What we need to do is to stop the spam from ever arriving in the first place.
A possible solution. Use Referrer info.
I might be wrong, but if we look the amount of blog-spam mentioned in the article - I would say that the spam comes from an external server - sending form data to e.g. "http://www.typepad.com/t/comments". It is unlikely (but again I could be wrong) that the spammers submit spam manually. It is a very inefficient approach - with a very low ROI.
What you have is a hidden field with an entry-ID. This field must be linked to a specific site in your databases. So you have the entry-id and what site it is on.
You can then block spam completely by validating (on the server - not client) if the referrer domain is the same as the domain where the entry-id is linked to. This way it will be impossible to post anything, unless you are standing on the specific domain.
To strengthen it even further, you can validate if the full referrer info is the same as the full blog page URL. This way not only do you have to be on the specific domain, you also have to be on the specific page.
This should prevent any external system from submitting data.
Just a suggestion - it might work?
It would be a matter of a half hour to modify robots to hit the entry page first. So, it would thwart current bots, but you can never expect them to remain current. The link I posted above includes this as the necessary first defense against spam robots. Other steps must be taken to make it many times more difficult, but nothing is air tight.
I'm not 100% up to speed on the comment spam thing, what is the primary motivation for a spammer to do it? If its old comments I'm guessing that it is just to bump the google rating, right? Isn't this benefit eliminated with a simple redirect script? So instead of the page linking to:
it links to
Google wouldn't see this as a link, and you lessen the incentive for spamming, then you just have to deal with the spammers who want people to actually read the message.
I've done a bit of reading about this problem since I've had my MT blog spammed… There are a lot of options, but there are ways around each of them.
For now I've been saving my email notifications of the offending comments (for the record), blocking the ip, and delete the comments. I noticed that if I didn't follow those steps and just removing the comments, they'd almost immediately be replaced with whatever was there before.. 0_o
I recently installed this:
Granted, it's not fool-proof, but so far I haven't received anymore spam…
Also, I emailed Google about this situation. If it's helping the spammers abuse the pagerank system, then they should be notified about it.
So far Google has been understanding. They're actually pretty gracious and quick to reply. <3 Google.
Originally they told me to report any abuse via their form, but this situation doesn't exactly apply to it. I explained it to them. They replied back saying that they've passed my message along to their QA team.
My hopes is that maybe they'll create another form for this situation where you can report blog spammers, and if enough people's blogs are spammed even just once from the same spammer (for levitra.com, migrane-relief.com, etc.), Google will remove them entirely from their directory.
I've seen your updated news from the MT 2.66 realese on this one, postin' this anyway, in case somebody didn't notice it:
I was thinking about building a weblog with MT, but this spam thing makes me think it twice, before I even download it. What's your opinion, should I wait until 3.0 comes out?
What about a image verification plugin for MT. I've seen a lot of pages with that technology, and it works pretty well. If someone wants to post a comment, it should write the alphanumerical string written inside an image (p.e. http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/register.php). I think is very difficult for an automated spamming process to bypass this.
What about a image verification plugin for MT. I've seen a lot of pages with that technology, and it works pretty well. If someone wants to post a comment, it should write the alphanumerical string written inside an image (p.e. http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/register.php). I think is very difficult for an automated spamming process to bypass this.
The upcoming release of bBlog ( www.bblog.com ) has a novel approach to comment spam;
Comments with links in them are put 'on hold' in the moderation queue. Other comments get through fine.
Also it can automatically disable comments on a post after a set period of time. This could be expanded to test for things apart from links, such as drug names as well.
Now, here's why I don't like the redirect method:
Is a redirected link to some drug site that much better than a straight link?
It will still say www. drug site .com on your blog, so really the only option is to not have the comment there. Either by deleting it, blocking it or automatically putting it in a moderation queue based on certian factors.
These methods for preventing Google from following spam links (redirects, robots.txt) also prevent it from following legitimate links. There is a cost in PageRank and indexing for legitimate links in comments. The tradeoff may be worth it, but if possible I would prefer solutions that don't reduce the number of non-spam links that Google can index.
What's worse than spam? Random jerks posting just for the hell of it: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000291.html p
I recently put together a method for automatically closing older posts in Movable Type:
While I haven't had much of a problem with comment spam, I know it will happen to us all sooner or later.
A little late perhaps - but worked this possible solution out. If you can use the Hiveware Enkoder to hide your email addreses why not your comment link. If you have your comments form pop up in a new window encode the address from <a href=… up to the point where you enter your <$MTEntryID$> (you can include the ? or not up to you). Place the rest of the URL after the </script> including the <$MTEntryID$>and all your javascript to make the pop-up comments form and as far as I can tell no spammers will be able to find your comment script, and if you have changed the name of your script (you really should) they never will find it using spam bots. At the end it should look something like this:
<script>… your encoded link text … </script><$MTEntryID$> onclick="…javascript…"> …Comment Text … </a>


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New tool removes guns from domestic violence suspects
In the days before Cynthia Jean Goodrum's slaying Dec. 27, her husband purchased several firearms, an ominous sign in a relationship that long had been tumultuous.
The devoted mother and nurse had filed for divorce to end her second marriage to Narada Goodrum. The looming threat from her husband was laid out in her court petition: Narada began to amass an arsenal after Cynthia, 34, asked for a divorce.
Bexar County deputies investigated a disturbance between the Goodrums a week earlier. No arrests were made, but deputies did remove a handgun that was in plain view.
"She was very scared, and she wanted to know what to do," said Mark Thompson, Cynthia Goodrum's lawyer.
This deadly mix of guns and domestic violence is all too common, and was behind at least 10 of the 88 city homicides last year. Courts long have recognized the peril, and assailants who are convicted of domestic assault are prohibited by federal law from possessing or purchasing firearms.
Now local courts are employing a new tool before trial by confiscating guns from some arrestees in domestic violence incidents.
Cynthia, who was pregnant at the time, had sought a temporary restraining order against Narada, 33. But before he could be served with papers, Narada dragged Cynthia by the hair into their house on the west side of Bexar County and shot her to death in the kitchen.
Last week, Narada took his own life while on the run in Las Vegas.
The new court strategy, adopted in June, is just one step — but an important one — in confronting the problem. National and local experts say that if an abuser has access to a firearm or weapon, the chance of that person killing someone increases dramatically.
So far, Bexar County Magistrate Judge Michael Ugarte said he's signed about 10 of those orders, but he added that not every domestic violence call involves a weapon.
"We use it on a case-by-case basis," Ugarte said. "Sometimes, family violence situations get out of hand and people get injured. If you remove the instrument that can escalate it, it may not get worse than it already is."
Thompson, Cynthia Goodrum's lawyer, said removing firearms from a potentially violent person makes sense, though it is clearly not a panacea in every case.
Narada Goodrum had yet to be arrested, so the courts wouldn't have intervened under the new policy.
"If someone's ready to kill his pregnant wife, then he's going to do it no matter what," Thompson said. "Maybe not having weapons would slow him down, but I've even seen a case of a man killing a woman by setting her on fire."
PEACE Initiative executive director and co-founder Patricia Castillo said the effects of the firearms surrender order have yet to be seen.
"It will be awhile before we see the impact, but the fact that we're even pursuing it, to me, is groundbreaking," said Castillo, whose local nonprofit is dedicated to fighting domestic violence. "I'm excited, I'm glad we're there. Domestic violence and weapons is a deadly combination."
While the order is relatively new here, it's long been in practice by other Texas judges.
Travis County Judge Michael Denton implemented similar procedures a decade ago, and last year, El Paso County Judge Patricia Macias completed a protocol that's easily adoptable by others.
Nationally, judges are trained to adopt firearms surrender, and order weapons removal for those named in protective orders, as best practices in decreasing family violence, but the tools aren't widespread.
"You don't see these kinds of restrictions in place on a broader scale as a condition of bail," said Professor Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. "This is a different kind of scenario — it could be a lifesaving measure to keep guns away from domestic violence perpetrators."
Bexar County family court Judge Monica Gonzalez got the idea after she met Macias at a domestic violence seminar last year. She quickly got to work on the initiative, with the support of the other local family court judge, Genie Wright.
"Firearms in a family violence case are the No. 1 weapon used if someone is murdered," Gonzalez said. "When you start looking at the statistics, you see the number of fatalities because of a firearm, and so I initiated that something be done in these cases."
New tools to fight abuse
Over the years, local authorities have adopted several measures to try to curb domestic violence, and Police Chief William McManus said the changes have led to a 3 percent decrease in family violence cases overall this year.
"We're all over this, simply because it's a very serious issue that has to be taken seriously," McManus said. "We place great emphasis on preventing and responding to family violence incidents."
A turning point came in 2007, when police changed the way they address the initial domestic violence call. One policy change was that, instead of filing a warrant for a suspect at-large, police began actively looking for the person who had fled the scene. Then in 2009, the San Antonio Police Department added several two-person teams dedicated to such cases. Recently, detectives were added to the department's family violence unit.
Homicides in San Antonio tied to family violence are up slightly, from nine in 2011. Of the 2012 victims, six were men reportedly killed by a son or a partner's son, and three were children. The sole female victim, Tammy Lydia Hernandez, 25, allegedly was slain by her boyfriend. Cynthia Goodrum's death occurred outside city limits in Bexar County, where totals from 2012 weren't immediately available.
When a domestic violence incident is reported, officers responding to the call can remove weapons if they are involved in the crime or if they're seen in plain view. Victims meet with SAPD's crisis response team, McManus said, and through interviews with them, officers evaluate the "lethality factor," or the chance of a homicide occurring.
A protective order may be issued, and judges may order firearms removal in that order, officials said.
If an arrest is made, judges can ask the arrested person to voluntarily surrender firearms, Ugarte said, adding that so far, no one has volunteered to give up their weapons. If the person refuses, Ugarte will order the firearms surrendered as a condition of the arrest.
But trusting suspects' words isn't enough: If they say they don't have weapons, they must sign a sworn affidavit stating so, Ugarte said.
To comply with the order, an arrested person must designate someone to take the firearms to police or the Sheriff's Office. The weapons will be held and can be retrieved once the case is closed, pending the outcome of any criminal charges.
Domestic violence cases can be very volatile and emotional, said First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg, whose office simply approved Gonzalez's proposal. Judges independently set the conditions of someone's bail, he said.
"It's an effort to prevent future violence," he said, "and we'll do anything that we can do to help people in these types of emotional situations. We certainly think this is a good idea."
While Macias and Denton agree the order is helpful in addressing domestic violence, no one is quite sure how well that measure alone has worked. Stopping abuse is most effective when done collaboratively, they and experts say.
"It's hard to give a performance measure, and hard to pick out one factor," Denton said, "but there's no question that having a gun in the house increases the potential for domestic violence homicides."
Family violence homicides are down in Austin, Denton said. And twice, the FBI has called him when someone who was prohibited from buying a firearm tried to do so, he said.
Macias said an abuse suspect recently was arrested in El Paso in a domestic violence incident, and a protective order was issued against him. She found out that he'd given his arsenal to his mother upon learning his firearms would be removed, so Macias summoned the man's mother to testify in court.
"She said there were 15 weapons, and said they were under her bed," Macias said. "She was an older woman. I ordered the weapons surrendered, and she brought them into the Police Department within 48 hours."
'A good thing'
Experts say the multifaceted approaches have been effective, and that keeping abusers away from firearms helps.
"Research does show that making it more difficult for abusers to get firearms leads to a reduction in inmate partner homicides. With this coming out of Texas, that definitely seems a little bit surprising," said Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor, a professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
The National Rifle Association did not return three phone calls seeking a comment for this article. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, there were 518,625 active concealed handgun license holders in the state on Dec. 31, 2011.
Judges here and elsewhere say they haven't had much backlash to firearms surrender from people concerned about gun owners' rights.
"I really salute Judge Gonzalez, because she just ran with this," Macias said. "It's difficult in Texas to talk about removing firearms, but you have to be clear that it's not an anti-gun initiative. For us, it's been well-received."
Sixty-five percent of women who are killed by their significant others in Texas are killed by a firearm, Castillo said, and three women die daily in the United States as a result of domestic violence. An American Journal of Public Health article from July 2003 stated that the biggest effect on domestic violence homicide rates is accessibility to a firearm.
"Everybody agrees this is a good thing," said Wright. "If we can get to these people before it escalates, maybe it will never escalate. What we're trying to do is avoid fatalities."
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How UK Police Attempted To Misuse Official Databases To Smear Disaster Victims
from the if-they-can,-they-will dept
A recent scandal in the UK concerned the country's worst sporting disaster, when 96 football/soccer fans were crushed to death at a stadium in Hillsborough in 1989. Prime Minister David Cameron issued an official apology to the families of the victims for the fact that the safety measures at the ground were known to be inadequate, and that police and emergency services had tried to deflect the blame for the disaster onto fans.
One way the police did this was by falsifying statements made to them after the disaster, to remove negative comments about how they had handled the situation. But another way involved trying to suggest the deaths were caused in part by the drunken behavior of fans. One attempt to bolster this view apparently involved the use of the UK's main Police National Computer system. Here's what the Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel (pdf) wrote about new evidence that had come to light:
2.5.112 The document indicates that a Police National Computer (PNC) check was conducted on all who died at Hillsborough for whom a blood alcohol reading above zero was recorded. It includes a handwritten list of the names, dates of birth, blood alcohol readings and home addresses of 51 of the deceased and provides screen-prints apparently drawn from the PNC. A summary of the results appears on the front page, establishing the number 'with cons' (convictions).
The idea was clearly to point to previous convictions as evidence that many of those who died were in some way responsible for the deaths of themselves and others because of drunkenness. As TJ McIntyre emphasizes in a blog post on this revelation:
This illustrates an important point that privacy campaigners have been making for a long time: centralised databases of this type can and will be abused, and the power to trawl databases for information on individuals -- in effect, to manufacture a case against them -- is a dangerous one. It's not hard to imagine how data retention records might be abused in a similar way in future.
Although the UK government's proposed "Snooper's Charter" foresees the creation of distributed databases of information about every citizen's online activities, it will be possible to carry out "filters" -- searches -- across them, unifying them into a single, virtual centralized database. As McIntyre notes, it's easy to imagine these hugely-detailed records being trawled for information and then used by the police to cover up their own blunders in the future, or to support a flimsy case against someone, in exactly the same way that those involved in the Hillsborough disaster tried to do with the existing PNC database. The latest revelations of database misuse are another compelling reason not to bring in the intrusive and ineffective approach that lies at the heart of the UK government's plans.
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I love permaculture! To help others learn a bit more about permaculture, I have built a blog to support other peoples efforts and provide links to useful resources that are online.
I always link my posts [at the bottom of each post] to the content's source as I do not write the material provided. I just gather useful permaculture content for others to use in their own research.
I only ask that you please respect the source/owner of the original work where possible.
I hope it can help you in your permaculture quest!


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Tickled Pink
Here in the good 'ol US of A, pretty much everything gets its own holiday. Got a toothache? February 9th is your day! Like air? So do I! Let's celebrate together on November 11th, National Air Day! And if anybody needs me on September 16th, I'll be enjoying National Stay Away From Seattle Day by, uh, continuing to live in Florida.
So anyway, today is National Pink Day, and by gosh, we're going to celebrate it - both the color *and* the singer. Why, you ask? Same reason we climb mountains: too much free time and we're crazy. DUH.
I don't know where it went.
Good thing I have this necklace
And lots of pink fondant:
That's not even real fondant. (Ha!)
I got a brand new airbrush
I hope I'm using it right:
I'm still a Wreck Star
I got my wreck moves
And I don't need yooouu.. except to buy my cakes.
And maybe not complain to my manager.
[scuffing toe and avoiding eye contact]
Next verse!
The shower cake's on the table
I'm sure it'll be a hit:
This one may look like a sphincter,
But what else rhymes with "hit?"
Na-na-na-na na-na na
Something that rhymes with "hit!"
Meh, so what?
That'll buff out:
Happy Pink Day, y'all.


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Kurt Cobain Biographer Confirms Courtney Love Wrote Note in Wallet
As reported, a note found in Kurt Cobain's wallet at the Nirvana frontman's death scene surfaced last week, and there was question as to who wrote the letter. Now, it's been confirmed that Courtney Love did in fact pen the sarcastic missive.
Charles R. Cross, the Seattle-based author who penned several books on Kurt Cobain, has stated that Courtney Love emailed him to let him know that she wrote the note and that she gave it to Cobain before their wedding in 1991.
The text of the note read: "Do you, Kurt Cobain, take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife even when she's a b-tch with zits and syphoning all your money for doping and whoring. Will you promise to f--- her at least once a week, o.k."
A partial photo of the note released by Seattle police initially made it seem as though Cobain was sarcastically ripping on Love, but once the full note surfaced, it appeared as though Love had penned the message.
According to The Guardian, Cross stated that the couple often wrote each other sarcastic notes, such as the one found in Cobain's wallet at the time of his death, and he confirmed that the handwriting is indeed Courtney Love's.


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Male anti-masturbation device, United Kingdom, 1871-1930
During the late 1800s, masturbation was considered to be not only morally wrong, as it is a form of self-gratification, but also harmful to health. This device was hooked on to a waistband and covered the penis and testicles. The device was worn underneath clothes but the resulting bulge must have looked quite odd!
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Umm, character discussion for each major character? Seeing the Clannad sub-forum has it, I think this should be included, because there are too many posts about characters in other threads(Gundam 00 ep 10 forum has a whole page dedicated to Tieria's sexuality -_-
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I feel that character thread for every major character would be an overkill (Depends on what we define as "major" character though). The Clannad comparison does not work because the title is a fully character driven show. That said i have nothing against creating a thread for each of the Gundam meisters, and one thread for all the other characters. Will get to it in a little while.
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'Drilling up' into space for energy
While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.
The annual meeting's corridors can be a sounding board for unlikely "solutions" to climate change from filling the skies with soot to block the sun, to cultivating oceans of seaweed to absorb the atmosphere's heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
Unlike other ideas, however, one this year had an influential backer, the Pentagon, which is investigating whether space-based solar power beaming energy down from satellites will provide "affordable, clean, safe, reliable, sustainable and expandable energy for mankind."
Tommy Remengesau Jr. is interested, too. "We'd like to look at it," said the president of the tiny western Pacific nation of Palau.
The Defense Department this October quietly issued a 75-page study conducted for its National Security Space Office concluding that space power collection of energy by vast arrays of solar panels aboard mammoth satellites offers a potential energy source for global U.S. military operations.
It could be done with today's technology, experts say. But the prohibitive cost of lifting thousands of tons of equipment into space makes it uneconomical.
That's where Palau, a scattering of islands and 20,000 islanders, comes in.
In September, American entrepreneur Kevin Reed proposed at the 58th International Astronautical Congress in Hyderabad, India, that Palau's uninhabited Helen Island would be an ideal spot for a small demonstration project, a 260-foot-diameter "rectifying antenna," or rectenna, to take in 1 megawatt of power transmitted earthward by a satellite orbiting 300 miles above Earth.
That's enough electricity to power 1,000 homes, but on that empty island the project would "be intended to show its safety for everywhere else," Reed said in a telephone interview from California.
Reed said he expects his U.S.-Swiss-German consortium to begin manufacturing the necessary ultralight solar panels within two years, and to attract financial support from manufacturers wanting to show how their technology launch vehicles, satellites, transmission technology could make such a system work. He estimates project costs at $800 million and completion as early as 2012.
At the U.N. climate conference here this month, a Reed partner discussed the idea with the Palauans, who Reed said could benefit from beamed-down energy if the project is expanded to populated areas.
"We are keen on alternative energy," Palau's Remengesau said. "And if this is something that can benefit Palau, I'm sure we'd like to look at it."
Space power has been explored since the 1960s by NASA and the Japanese and European space agencies, based on the fundamental fact that solar energy is eight times more powerful in outer space than it is after passing through Earth's atmosphere.
The energy captured by space-based photovoltaic arrays would be converted into microwaves for transmission to Earth, where it would be transformed into direct-current electricity.
Low-orbiting satellites, as proposed for Palau, would pass over once every 90 minutes or so, transmitting power to a rectenna for perhaps five minutes, requiring long-term battery storage or immediate use for example, in recharging electric automobiles via built-in rectennas.
Most studies have focused instead on geostationary satellites, those whose orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth keeps them over a single location, to which they would transmit a continuous flow of power.
The scale of that vision is enormous: One NASA study visualized solar-panel arrays 3 by 6 miles in size, transmitting power to similarly sized rectennas on Earth.
Each such mega-orbiter might produce 5 gigawatts of power, more than twice the output of a Hoover Dam.
But how safe would those beams be?
Patrick Collins of Japan's Azabu University, who participated in Japanese government studies of space power, said a lower-power beam, because of its breadth, might be no more powerful than the energy emanating from a microwave oven's door. The beams from giant satellites would likely require precautionary no-go zones for aircraft and people on the ground, he said.
Rising oil costs and fears of global warming will lead more people to look seriously at space power, boosters believe.
"The climate change implications are pretty clear. You can get basically unlimited carbon-free power from this," said Mark Hopkins, senior vice president of the National Space Society in Washington.
"You just have to find a way to make it cost-effective."
Advocates say the U.S. and other governments must invest in developing lower-cost space-launch vehicles. "It is imperative that this work for `drilling up' vs. drilling down for energy security begins immediately," concludes October's Pentagon report.
Some seem to hear the call. The European Space Agency has scheduled a conference on space-based solar power for next Feb. 29. Space Island Group, another entrepreneurial U.S. endeavor, reports "very positive" discussions with a European utility and the Indian government about buying future power from satellite systems.
To Robert N. Schock, an expert on future energy with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, space power doesn't look like science fiction.
The panel's 2007 reports didn't address space power's potential, Schock explained, because his team's time horizon didn't extend beyond 2030. But, he said, "I wouldn't be surprised at the beginning of the next century to see significant power utilized on Earth from space and maybe sooner."
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If i remember correctly, don't we already have a thread dedicated to the Gundam game franchise?
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In essence the thread as it is now is dealing with the historical, current and future speculation of the factions, not specifically dealing with how they or any other country is run; so a political thread could still be viable.
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I wonder if it's too early to have Gundam 30years thread, since it's almost 30years that Gundam came out (1979). Or something like speculation for 30year anniversary thread or something along that line.
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When asked by Jim Lehrer, the host of Newshour on PBS, if Hosni Mubarak was a dictator, the US vice president, Joseph Biden, said: 'Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things and he's been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interests in the region, Middle East peace efforts, the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalising the relationship with Israel… I would not refer to him as a dictator.'
Here are some excerpts from the rest of Lehrer's interview with Biden, containing more of the VP's candid assessments.
On Darth Vader: Look, I know Darth fairly well, and Jim, I just want to mention that Darth has overcome asthma, some serious, serious asthma, and it's just a really inspiring story, he's written a children's book about it, I gave a signed copy to my granddaughter for Christmas. Anyway our position is that before Darth blows up the planet Alderaan with his so-called Death Star, which is really just a large weather satellite with a few dual-use components, Darth should, you know, take some of that planet's concerns into account
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect and designer of both the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. My interest in Mackintosh began many years ago when I learned about the furniture and interiors that he and his wife Margaret Macdonald created for The Willow Tearooms in Glasgow. I haven't made it up to Glasgow (yet) to see The Willow Tearooms, but I was fortunate enough recently to have been invited to see 78 Derngate in Northampton – the site of Mackintosh's only domestic commission in England.
The modest house at 78 Derngate was a wedding gift in 1917 to Northampton businessman W. J. Bassett-Lowke from his father. Not entirely to his liking, Bassett-Lowke hired Mackintosh to help with a renovation. The end result took portions of the house from modest to remarkable – a hybrid mix of geometric Mackintosh (the hall/lounge) and cosy Mackintosh (the dining room, below) – which is the Mackintosh style I favour.
I highly recommend a visit to 78 Derngate in Northampton. The staff are very friendly and accommodating, and the house tours are led by knowledgeable guides. Exhibits, special events, and educational activities are held there, and you will also find a gift shop. More importantly, I am happy to say, is that there is also a place for Afternoon Tea.
The Dining Room restaurant at 78 Derngate provides home cooked fresh food for breakfast, lunch, dinner – and Afternoon Tea. The space is very welcoming: lots of windows with a simple but classy ambiance.
But the real attraction of The Dining Room is the food. I have had many an Afternoon Tea – and the tea food here ranks tops.
The full Afternoon Tea at The Dining Room is served on two – yes, two! – separate cake stands. The first arrives with savouries. On the day Mr. Tea and I visited, the first stand had sandwiches of egg; ham; and cucumber on the bottom tier; warm tarts and cheese scones on the middle tier; and coronation chicken filo cups on the top tier. All savouries – one of each per person – were freshly made and contained plenty of flavour and plenty of filling. We consumed it all, and it was superb!
At this point, we didn't think we could eat another morsel, but when the second cake stand arrived – laden with warm scones; cakes (including a cupcake topped with mini-marshmallows which had been lightly toasted – scrumptious!); tarts; macarons; and truffles – we couldn't resist giving it our best shot. Perfection on a plate is the only way I can describe it all. There truly is more food here than two people can eat, but fear not – a takeaway box will gladly be provided.
At £16.50 per person, which includes unlimited tea or coffee, Afternoon Tea at The Dining Room has to be one of the best – if not the best – Afternoon Tea values in England.
The designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh at 78 Derngate aren't everyone's cup of tea, but tea at The Dining Room, 78 Derngate is certainly mine.
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The corn-fuel mandate has been an invitation to mass fraud.
Ethanol is losing political steam on the left and right, but the fuel retains a powerful patron in the Environmental Protection Agency. On Wednesday the EPA retroactively reduced the 2013 gasoline-blending mandate for cellulosic ethanol to 810,185 gallons from six million. If that sounds like a big cut, 810,185 gallons is precisely every last drop the industry managed to produce. The 2014 mandate is nonetheless pegged at a preposterous 17 million gallons.
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At first blush, it seemed, most Americans haven't gotten too exercised about the revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly tracking everyone's phone data, in the name of protecting national security.
That was the take-away from a Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. But two new polls out Wednesday – one by Gallup, another by YouGov taken for The Economist – paint a difference picture. Both find that a majority of Americans disapprove of the NSA data-mining programs.
In the Gallup poll, conducted June 10 and 11, 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the programs, while 37 percent approve. YouGov found that 59 percent disapprove of the programs, and only 35 percent approve.
Americans are also skeptical that the snooping is doing much good. Per YouGov, only 35 percent say it's likely the information has prevented a terror attack, while 54 percent doubt it has. And while President Obama insists that "nobody is listening to your phone calls," it turns out only 17 percent of Americans think that's true, according to the YouGov poll, taken June 8 to 10.
"Reading your emails, listening to your phone calls, examining your phone or computer without a warrant – those are intrusions rejected by large majorities approaching the 93 percent who insist on seeing a warrant, subpoena, or national security letter before they'd consent to allowing government to enter their homes without permission or probable cause," YouGov says in its report on the poll.
In another small hint at how some Americans are reacting to the data-mining stories, Bloomberg News reports that sales of George Orwell's book "1984" have spiked on Amazon.com. The 1949 classic, a staple of high school reading lists, depicts a dystopian society marked by near-saturation surveillance at the hands of Big Brother.
Others have taken to putting their name on a "We the People" petition at WhiteHouse.gov. As of 3:41 p.m. Wednesday, 63,532 people had signed on to a petition demanding the pardon of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who says he leaked top-secret documents about government surveillance programs to The Guardian and The Washington Post. The petition needed 48,000 to merit a White House response.
"Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs," the petition reads.
Mr. Obama prides himself on running a transparent government and says he welcomes a public debate about where to draw the line between protecting public safety and safeguarding civil liberties. But given that the antiterror surveillance programs remain largely secret, it's not clear just how much will be debated in public.
Many members of Congress, from both parties, are defending the surveillance programs. But even some of the president's allies are calling for more transparency.
"The president or his people need to be more forthcoming," Sen. Mark Begich (D) of Alaska told Politico. "Look, we understand the need for secrecy, I get it, but the fact is we also need a lot more transparency on the process."
Senator Begich is in a bipartisan group of eight senators that is calling on the White House to declassify legal decisions that have allowed widespread phone and Internet surveillance, as revealed in the recently leaked documents.
Speaking at a congressional hearing Wednesday, the director of the NSA, Gen. Keith Alexander, said that the secret surveillance of phone data has helped prevent dozens of terrorist events. He promised that records about those thwarted attacks would be made public within a week.


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Growing up in Egypt as one of three children, Marwa Al-Ansary enjoyed collecting unused old items from around her neighbourhood and repurposing them to make gifts for her family and friends. To her, it was the foundation of what she does today – inventing new uses for waste materials.
Initially, her parents didn't agree with her dream of becoming an engineer. "I had other plans, though," she says. "I knew they wanted me to become a doctor or a journalist, so I studied engineering in secret for two years. But when the truth finally came out, I explained my passion to my parents and they understood and surprisingly were very supportive afterwards. They were really proud when I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge."


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New Jersey native Jim Norton is best known for his unique point of view and outspoken humor. As a comedian he has toured the country performing in front of sold out crowds. He is a New York Times best-selling author, radio personality, and television host. Each day Jim is listened to by millions of devoted fans on the Opie & Anthony Radio Show for Sirius/XM Radio, which began over a decade ago in 1999. Jim is a re-occurring guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and frequents the late night talk show circuit as well with credits including The Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Jim's first book, HAPPY ENDINGS: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch was published in July 2007. It spent several weeks on the bestseller list, which serves as a testament to his growing popularity. This New York Times best-seller is a collection of Jim's personal journal entries, raunchy sex stories, embarrassing star sightings, and pathetic childhood memories. Jim's second book, I Hate Your Guts, also became a New York Times best-seller upon its release in November 2008.
On television, Jim hosts HBO's Down and Dirty with Jim Norton. Down and Dirty is a four- episode series showcasing new stand-up comedians. Jim was most recently seen in Monster Rain, his one-hour HBO stand-up show. He also starred in HBO's Lucky Louie as well as in Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. As indicated above, he has performed on many of the late night talk shows and had a half-hour special on HBO's One Night Stand, and has been featured on both Jimmy Kimmel Live and Last Call with Carson Daly. Jim has several comedian friends as well, which is evident in his work and personal life. Artie Lange and Louis C.K. are friends and he was featured in Jerry Seinfeld's 2002 documentary, Comedian, as well as a participant in The Roast of Bob Saget.
In addition to radio, books, TV and touring, Jim has released two CD's of his stand-up comedy: 2002's Yellow Discipline and 2003's Trinkets I Own Made From Gorilla Hands.
Jim's first inkling and inspiration to becoming a comedian came at age 12 when he saw Richard Pryor's special Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. He wound up in rehab at 17, dropped out of high school the next year, then started signing up for open-mic nights at local bars at 21. Often pegged as an 'angry comic' because of his raunchy brand of humor, Jim argues the only labels in comedy that truly matter are 'funny,' 'original,' and 'hack.'
Jim has a very extensive career, but when he isn't touring the country and performing at well-known comedy clubs, Jim is an admitted literature lover with Irish Poet and author Samuel Beckett. He is also an avid autograph and celebrity photo collector. He is an on-air personality quickly becoming a famous face behind the voice.


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Method Man Interview Says Hip Hop Has Somewhat To Do With Violence In America! (Speaks On Hip Hop, Redman & Him Working On New Album)
BlackTree TV reports "Monday Night Conversation with Method Man Its the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip hop and wafting with the sweet aroma of marijuana. The newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. The Wackness centers upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck)a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley), a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression. Propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, The Wackness captures the spell of 1994--a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when Tupac and Biggie were alive but Kurt Cobain had just died. Funny and moving, The Wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity."
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Download the Linux kernel sourcecode from http://www.kernel.org/. For example, the current kernel version is 2.6.23, a direct link would be http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-188.8.131.52.tar.bz2
We will build the Linux kernel in a different directory:
cd /usr/local/src
tar xvjf linux-184.108.40.206.tar.bz2
mkdir -p /mnt/build/linux-2.6
cd /usr/local/src/linux-2.6.23
make oldconfig O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6
Next, make the kernel a bit easier to debug:
make menuconfig O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6
And enable the following options: In the "Kernel hacking" menu enable both "Compile the kernel with debug info" and "Compile the kernel with frame pointers".
Now, we'll fire up Eclipse with the CDT plugin. You can download Eclipse with the CDT plugin from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. You'll need to download "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers".
Get rid of the intro screen.
You'll get an empty workspace as shown in the screenshot. First disable automatic building, by using the "Window->Preferences" menu, selecting "General->Workspace" and deselecting "Build automatically". Eclipse will perform a time consuming indexing operation which you can disable by using the "Window->Preferences" menu, selecting "C/C++->Indexer" and switching from "Fast C/C++ Indexer" to "No Indexer".
Then select "C Project", "Makefile project", "Empty Project".
Now enter a project name and specify a specific directory for the project sourcecode. To do this, first uncheck the "Use default location" checkbox.
If you hadn't disabled indexing, Eclipse will now start indexing the Linux kernel sourcecode. This will take a long time.
You'll see a progressbar which might give you an indication on how long it might take to complete.
Eclipse finished indexing the kernel sourcecode. Now, we're ready to configure our debugger. Right-click on the project-name in the left pane (Project explorer) and select "Properties".
We want to modify the default build command and the location where the build files should go.
Uncheck "Use default build command" and enter make CC=gcc-3.4 O=/mnt/build/linux-2.6
Modify the build location by clicking the "File system..." button and browsing to /mnt/build/linux-2.6
Through the menu-bar select "Project->Build all" or press "Ctrl-b".
After some time the Linux kernel build will be completed and you see "bzImage is ready" appear in the Eclipse Console output.
Next, we'll run our kernel binary using the Qemu system emulator. The nice thing about Qemu is that besides the normal virtual HD, floppy and ISO image booting, it can also boot Linux kernels directly. And, Qemu provides a GDB-stub to which we can connect from our Eclipse debugger. The "-s" switch activates this GDB-stub. The "-S" switch makes sure Qemu doesn't start running before we're ready (it freezes the CPU at startup).
Because the CPU is "frozen" at startup, the Qemu window won't show anything useful yet.
Through the menubar, select "Run->Debug Configurations...". Double-click "C/C++ Local Application". Modify the "C/C++ Application" textentry to point to the actual Linux kernel, being /mnt/build/linux-2.6/vmlinux
Click on the "Debugger" tab, and in the "Debugger" listbox select the "gdbserver Debugger". Next, modify the "Stop on startup at:" to "start_kernel". Below this, you'll notice a frame named "Debugger Options"; click the "Connection" tab in this frame and modify the "Type" to "TCP" and the "Port number" to 1234. Continue by clicking the "Debug" button.
Eclipse might compile and link a bit, but will finally launch the debugger and ask if you want to switch to the debugging perspective. Say yes.
The next screenshot shows the debugging perspective. Just like with normal applications, you'll see that the line it is about the execute is highlighted.
In the Qemu window, you'll notice some output already. This is the output which happened in functions preceding the start_kernel() function.
By using "Run->Step over" or pressing the "F6" key, you can execute the kernel code line by line and examine what's happening.
If you want to see the assembly instructions which are being executed, you can add a view which displays this by selecting "Windows->Show View->Disassembly".
There's a register view too, as can be seen in the next screenshot. Registers who's contents has been altered by the previous execution step are highlighted in yellow.
You can add breakpoints, inspect variables, inspect memory and much more, but as you keep running the kernel you'll run in trouble as we did not specify a true harddisk image for Qemu. So, you'll get the following output in the Qemu window, because the Linux kernel could not find a root filesystem on our fake harddisk image "/dev/zero".
That's it. Hopefully the above is useful (and fun) for anyone :)
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