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Ever read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Some of the things in there are hilarious if you like comedy too.
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Ever read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Some of the things in there are hilarious if you like comedy too.
Verarde
Pondering Wearing A Hat
I have a weird issue...images from other places, images that I haven't seen before, some I have, are showing up all over the Internet:
Example A. Half of Neal Morse's first solo album and what appears to be a Star Wars picture have replaced the
and ![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
smilies on CFC.
I was hoping that it would just be CFC affected, but no. It soon spread to Twitter.
Example B. The
smilie (fully animated, no less) is now in the upper left corner of my Twitter feed.
Example C. Some images on the Polycast website are appearing as broken, and others have pictures of people that I do not know.
No screenshot, but another example is that a friend's facebook page shows his avatar as a pic of Carl Palmer, but when clicked on, is his normal picture. Coincidentally (or not) I had wiki'd Carl Palmer yesterday and saw the exact same picture.
I am running a full scan on my computer to see if any viruses have infected it, but my question is this:
What is happening, and how do I stop it before it plagues the rest of my computer?
Example A. Half of Neal Morse's first solo album and what appears to be a Star Wars picture have replaced the
and smilies on CFC.Spoiler CFC :
I was hoping that it would just be CFC affected, but no. It soon spread to Twitter.
Example B. The
smilie (fully animated, no less) is now in the upper left corner of my Twitter feed.Spoiler Twitter :
Example C. Some images on the Polycast website are appearing as broken, and others have pictures of people that I do not know.
Spoiler Polycast :
No screenshot, but another example is that a friend's facebook page shows his avatar as a pic of Carl Palmer, but when clicked on, is his normal picture. Coincidentally (or not) I had wiki'd Carl Palmer yesterday and saw the exact same picture.
I am running a full scan on my computer to see if any viruses have infected it, but my question is this:
What is happening, and how do I stop it before it plagues the rest of my computer?
Verarde
Pondering Wearing A Hat
Cleared my cache, and everything is back to normal.
aimeeandbeatles
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Why would thousands of birds be sleeping in a parking lot? It wasnt a feed factory or anything like that. Please don't mention that movie.
NickyJ
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French fries, bread, or other foods that The Birds like?
aimeeandbeatles
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No. It was a textile plant or something.
The pavement was probably warm compared to fields in the area.
Gamemaster77
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To all you wrinkly old people out there, what did you think of the mouse wheel when it first started appearing?
Traitorfish
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"Wrinkly old people"? I remember when mouse wheels first appeared. 
(But I was like 8 at the time so all I thought was "ha, this mouse has a wheel, how about that").
(But I was like 8 at the time so all I thought was "ha, this mouse has a wheel, how about that").
When I first got a computer I scrolled using the bar at the side of the page; only recently started using the wheel
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Contention put forth, contention addressed."Wrinkly old people"? I remember when mouse wheels first appeared.
(But I was like 8 at the time so all I thought was "ha, this mouse has a wheel, how about that").
You're reputably so old I'm not sure if "recently" here means a decade or two.
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I ask because I imagine it was a "rolleyes just a gimmick" sort of reaction that was later reassessed and I need to validate my imagination.
Contention put forth, contention addressed.
You're reputably so old I'm not sure if "recently" here means a decade or two.
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I'm not that old - didn't have a computer until about five years ago!
If anyone actually believes that, it's not that bad. My grandfather thinks the internet is a gimmick.
aronnax
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Why are my favourite US TV shows skipping a week on their air date?
Because they have a full year of programming to air and most shows only produce at most 22 episodes a year. In the distance past they would go through 26 weeks of new, followed by 26 weeks of repeats. Now they mix it up so that some of the new air just a month or 2 before the new season, and each season has fewer episodes.
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