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3 years, 10 months ago

Queen: The Musical (as in the Band not the Head of State)

Oh.
My.
GOD.

We need to get a group together to go see this. The BRAIN BABIES! THINK OF THEM!

From here:

http://vybr8r.com/news/show.php?id=1562

“Queen Rock Musical Makes North American Premiere
2004-06-23

Tickets are now on sale for the smash hit musical “We Will Rock You,” which will make its North American debut at Paris Las Vegas. With preview shows beginning August 16 and a September star-studded gala opening, the extended engagement at Paris Las Vegas marks the first run of the show in North America and the first time a musical of this caliber will debut in Las Vegas.

“We Will Rock You” is a lavish rock musical featuring 20 of Queen’s greatest hits - including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “We Are The Champions,” “Another One Bites The Dust” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” Every performance has played to sold-out crowds and standing ovations since it opened in one of the largest venues in London’s West End in May 2002.

“We are very pleased to host the first North American extended run of this world-class rock experience,” said Bobby Yee, president of Paris Las Vegas. “A production of this caliber choosing to debut at Paris Las Vegas is a testament to the quality of the Paris resort casino and to Las Vegas’ status as the true entertainment capital of the country.”

“We Will Rock You” will take the stage at Le Théâtre des Arts, an intimate 1,450-seat venue that is being customized to provide an extraordinary setting for audiences to experience the music and dance of “We Will Rock You.” In true rock-and-roll fashion, complex laser lights and special effects will be broadcast on six gigantic plasma screens.

Through auditions in major cities across America, the production has cast world-class singers and dancers for this high-energy rock theatrical experience. Principals now rehearsing in Las Vegas include: Douglas Crawford (Pop), Rich Hebert (Khashoggi), Aspen Miller and Kacie Sheik (Scaramouche), Ty Talor (Britney), Carly Thomas (Oz), Tony Vincent and Jason Wooten (Galileo).

Ensemble cast members include: Timothy George Anderson, Rosalind Brown, Joey Calveri, Venny Carranza, Abbie L. Cooper, Maria Davidson, Jennifer DiNoia, Derek Ferguson, Rona Figueroa, Nam Holtz, Jenny Jackson, Chris Klink, Jeremy Kocal, Mychael Ludwin, Tim McGarrigal, Sarah McLellan, Luke Merryman, Michele Micholas, Kristen Oei, Aaron Paul, Keven Quillon, Niki Scalera, Annette Simmonds, Jimmy R.O. Smith, Megan Stephens, Will Swenson, Amir Talai, Andrew Turteltaub, Marcia Urani, Jonathan Warren, Tonya Wathen and Paula Wise.

Ticket prices are $80.50, $97.00 and $113.50 (including tax and handling), available at the Paris Box Office or by calling (702) 946-4567 or (877) ROCK SHOW. The show schedule is as follows: Monday 9 p.m.
Tuesday 7 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday 7 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
Thursday DARK
Friday 9 p.m.
Saturday 7 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
Sunday 5 p.m. & 9 p.m.

“We Will Rock You” will be presented by Tribeca Theatrical Productions co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor and Phil McIntyre Entertainment in association with Paris Las Vegas.”

3 years, 10 months ago

Okay people….how many times….

Do I have to tell you people to STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER? Want to know why? Well read this people!

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php

“UPDATE (1930 UTC) - Several readers have responded and confirmed that this is a wide-spread issue. Here is what we know so far:

- An IIS server’s configuration is somehow modified so that “enable document footer” is enabled for various (if not all) files and linked to the new .dll file(s) in \winnt\system32\inetsrv. This might be done with the help of a program called agent.exe installed via one of the multiple known IIS vulnerabilities. (Thanks, Patrick and Ben!)

- When a visitor browses the site, all of the objects with their properties set to “enable document footer” are sent to the client browser with the JavaScript appended to the end of the file. If the visitor is running an updated version of AV software, the modified files (which include images as well as .html) are detected as being infected.

- The visitor’s browser is re-directed to the Russian URL listed below where a known Trojan program (msits.exe) is downloaded, along with some additional malware. Again, if the user’s machine is updated with current AV software, this malware is detected and blocked. (Thanks, Michael!)

- The earliest reported infection was on June 20th (four days ago).

What we DON’T know, and can use some help in figuring out, is how the malware is installed on the IIS server to begin with. Is there a zero-day floating around? Is it via a known vulnerability and the use of agent.exe as mentioned above? (Ed Skodis, one of our handlers, suggested that perhaps the IIS system admin used a local copy of IE to browse a site and pulled down hostile JavaScript. Does that jive with anybody’s findings?)

Our concern is that there might be an IIS zero-day floating around. We won’t list the sites that are reported to be infected in order to prevent further abuse, but the list is long and includes businesses that we presume would normally be keeping their sites fully patched.”

What does this mean? It means that just by VISITING a website in IE you could UNKOWNINGLY HAVE SPAMWARE INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER.

How do you stop this from happening?

1. STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER! Go download Firefox 0.9 from http://www.mozilla.org/ or download Mozilla 1.7 or get a copy of Opera 7 from http://www.operasoftware.com/

2. Turn off Javascript in the meantime just to be safe.

Every time you run Internet Explorer you run the risk of being infected with numerous kinds of malware, spyware, or spamware now through many well documented yet still unpatched security holes in it. DO NOT USE IT!

3 years, 10 months ago

More SpaceShipOne stuff

Some more video of radio chatter after the initial rocket burn:

http://www.nonmundane.org/~dspisak/media/rockets/MVI_2231.MP4

Have fun with it guys.

Oh and I no longer need a Gmail account invite, thanks to my friend Heather! Thanks Heather!

3 years, 10 months ago

Photos from SpaceShipOne are up!

You can see them all at my photo galleries at:

http://www.nonmundane.org/gallery/

3 years, 10 months ago

WOO HOOO!!

They made it!

You can see the contrail but it was right next to the sun depending on where you were standing which made it a bitch to get!

http://www.nonmundane.org/~dspisak/media/chaosmanor/ss1-1st-engine.wmv

3 years, 10 months ago

8 minutes…

Till SpaceShipOne is dropped from White Knight!

3 years, 10 months ago

Sleepy time for Dan

I have to be up by 4:30AM to be ready in time for the 6:30AM liftoff of the White Knight and SpaceShipOne. Wish them luck and wish me luck in getting some awesome photos for all of you people!

3 years, 10 months ago

So…Damn…Cool

I’m sleeping in a rocket hangar at the first spaceport with rocket scientists…this is so cool!

Oh we also had to put out a grease fire with liquid nitrogen today! This was not planned….heh. :)

We also made ice cream with liquid nitrogen…this was planned









3 years, 10 months ago

Off to Mojave

If anyone is looking for me I will be out in the Mojave watching the first privately owned spaceship reach the edge of space. Don’t know what I am talking about? Then here are some links to get yourselves educated:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/8969175.htm

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5251096/site/newsweek/

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=10&u=/ap/20040619/ap_on_sc/private_rocket

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/178691_spaceship19.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/721D7176-BB9D-461A-AF84-CC8DEDA25782.htm

It should be a blast!

3 years, 11 months ago

You’re going to hell!

And I’m driving the handbasket…

http://www.av1611.org/hell.html




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Daniel Spisak

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

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