(From Sam Terrapin's Blog at Skinartistry)  The next time you post a picture to the world wide web, you may want to ask yourself if that's all your posting. There's all that METaDATA that is attached to it as well.  For Windows only comes JPEG & PNG Stripper an extremely small portable application that strips the metadata out of JPEG and PNG image files. From Lifehacker "Why would you want to strip down an imag...

When I was fourteen, living in Philadelphia, I cam across my first ‘geek-national holiday’. I was walking through the Temple University campus and started noticing flyers posted everywhere that promoted ‘Wear Blue Jeans If You Gay’ day. I was fourteen. I had enough problems at school. I had a kid named Mark Ashton that beat the shit out of once a year. I could walk into school and know that that day would be the day. This went on from first grade up through high school. I made sure I didn’t wea...

Perhaps you have received an email that starts something like this... "Greetings in Jesus' name, dear friend, I am the widow of Idi Amin." Perhaps you receive several hundred of them on a regular basis. They are known as '419 Scams; , named after a section of the Nigerian penal code. In the email, someone will claim that they need your assistance in acquiring some large amount money that is held up in probate, etc. The catch is, they need some money from you in order to d...