I just got a spam/phishing email that looks exactly like a Windows Update notification, and every link in the email is to a real Microsoft site, save one. The download link, which I must “Install now to maintain the security of your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run code on your computer,” goes to a file named Windows-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe on the domain windowsupdatenow.net. I’m sure the exe will do awful things to whoever falls for this. I hope Microsoft/Scoble get their lawyers on whoever is behind this, I’ll admit until I noticed the download link domain the email seemed totally legit.

Blogging Without Borders just hit Version 2.0, and continues to fight censorship around the world. One of the best uses of Drupal I’ve seen, and the first I know in terms of “citizen media” which is starting to get hype these days around things like Bayosphere.

Scoble hinted at the story Om just broke, that Newsgator will be buying FeedDemon. Should be interesting.

I’m the #1 hit for Dave Matthews new CD, and the comments keep coming in. Also, Boing Boing drives a noticeable amount of traffic, which is unusual.

The Ping-O-Matic Matrix display, which I use for spotting spam. I was always a big Matrix fan. 🙂

Test the new Mountain Dew. Hat tip: Forever Geek.

“I’m going to keep updating the site via a PDA and an Iridium satellite phone (using a tweaked version of WordPress that we’ll be releasing as open source once I’m back in June).”

So blo.gs has been sold and there are no details as to who it’s going to (or for how much), which is odd. As a user I feel sort of blinded by oncoming headlights, but hopefully more information will be available shortly. There were 12,207 users when I first got the announcement, the number seems to be going down. I hope the new owner is cool. Update: I heard the new owner is cool.

“Crash into me…” If you buy the new Dave Matthews Band Stand Up CD, do not put it in your Windows computer. I did and it popped up an annoying software installation and I said no to it just like I did 9 years ago when I first saw that happen with Fiona Apple’s Tidal. It then ejected the CD. First strike! I just wanted to listen to it. So I did the logical thing and pushed the CD drive back in, and the CD spun up and then the computer crashed and rebooted. Needless to say, this is a very bad thing.

Huffington’s Toast is proudly powered by WordPress.

I just got a “CEASE AND DESEASE” order by another braindead person thinking that WordPress, or “WORLD PRESS” as the email says, has anything to do with sites that run it. (The reference to “WORLD PRESS” means he must have known about my plans for world domination.) The most interesting of these was when I was contacted by the FBI about a fugitive on the run that had a WP blog under an alias.

North South East West is a “view of climate change” and a pretty compelling site to explore. What’s interesting is the entire site is done in WordPress, which seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the non-profit sector. Hat tip: Rob Bevan via email. From the developer: “We used WordPress more as a CMS than a blogging platform, and although there is some chronological content, mostly we’re using static pages, with commenting. 1.5’s theme system really allows developers to fundamentally change what a WordPress site can be, without making changes to WordPress itself… but you knew that already! Thanks for a great platform. We’re going to use it for a whole bunch of other projects from now on.”

Whoa, Google widened the search box. I don’t know why, but I’m in shock. I remember thinking when the links above the search box got wider than the box itself that they’d jumped the shark, but obviously they got their “mojo” back. 😉

Salon and Technorati, sitting in a tree, L-I-N-K-I-N-G.

See famous venture capitalist Tim Draper sing along with a song he commisioned from The Eagles, the air guitar at the end is especially good. More on Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

I met a Fundable guy at SxSW who was pushing the service hard, now that it’s up and running it looks pretty neat.

Keith is learning WordPress and looking for some pointers, already some great resources have been pointed out in the comments so read those before adding anything.

I’ve linked it before, and it’s worth doing again: WP Cache makes WordPress perform as well as a completely static-file site, able to handle hundreds of requests per second without breaking a sweat. It also maintains with the conventions that were introduced in Staticize for making selective portions of a page completely dynamic, regardless of caching. Think how much performance would scream if combined with something like lighttpd. We’re going to be looking at rolling in this advanced caching into the core in the future.

Tools for Textareas, the resizing textarea has been in the WordPress Shuttle development mockups for a while.