August 21: "offering a reward of 2 million dark chocolate M&M'S for the return of [The Scream], which was stolen on August 22, 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway."
August 31: "Norway Police Recover `Scream,' `Madonna' Paintings"
Interesting rendering of the Locust concept folding bike. I'd love to see a swarm of these coming down the street.
About six years ago, I needed to test some third-party AOL Instant Messenger software so I created an AIM account. I didn't think I'd use it all that much. But over the years it became my primary form of communication with some people.
Although I often wished I had chosen a less random screen name (drjellyfish - I was reading an oceanography book at the time), I never went back to change or update anything.
About a week ago, I could suddenly no longer log into AIM. I tried various computers and devices with no luck. I could log into other accounts with no issues. But for the drjellyfish AIM account, I was told either the name or password (or both) were invalid. Trying to login via the AIM website reports my password is invalid.
So I'm thinking that either AOL did something and zapped my account for some reason; someone hax0red my account and changed my password (which seems unlikely, and no one else has logged in with my screen name), or AOL somehow messed up m password. (If I'm missing any other possibilities please let me know).
The problem is, either I never associated another email address with this screen name, or the email I did use is long gone. So all attempts at password reset/recovery via the AIM/AOL websites send emails off to nowhere. I've chatted online with support and talked to folks on the phone. They send me to each other and thank me for allowing them to help me. Very polite, but not helpful. Plus, I never had an actual AOL account, so anything they advise around AOL keywords does not help.
Everything I've found via Google says that if you don't have an email associated, you are out of luck. Anyone in the AOL world that can offer any other advice?
I had so much fun making the bikr stickr, I ended up making a few more bike stickers. I've set up a sticker shop for them, and I'll be adding more designs as I think of them. Feedback welcome.
In related bike news, I've just passed the 500 mile mark for biking since rescuing the bike from the basement this summer and using it to commute to work. Feels good! Next summer I'm going to try one of those charity rides where you do 60 miles per day, so I have to start exploring some longer routes.
I came across this interesting video project over at Nike's ever-changing soccer website (nikesoccer.com). They are soliciting videos from users, where each video must be fifteen seconds or less, and feature a ball entering from the left and exiting on the right. In the middle, players show off their moves. Then they are stitching them all together into one long video. They are up to 500 players and 48 minutes so far.
Getted sucked into their viral campaign and watch the video, if you dare (warning, Flash site with sound).
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
news.google.com gives me an at-a-glance view of what's happening.
In striving to make last Friday's game a bit challenging, perhaps I went too far. Since no one has attempted any answers yet, here are some clues:
- the list consists of characters
- two of them are robots
- one is a computer
I hope these four clues help out! Fabulously random prizes await!
I'm walking around the Lewiston/Auburn area of Maine. They used to be
big milltowns. Due in part to a recent wave of immigrants from Somalia,
they have been experiencing a bit of economic revival. There is a lot of
amazing architecture to be found.
Nice night to stop and watch the pyrotechnics.
Biked into Portland for dinner. I have 3 more sushi places in town to
try out before I can verify the claim made in the sign pictured, but it
was quite good.
