For the folks at Threshold Productions, it’s time to break out the flip flops and suntan lotion for National Lampoon just purchased international theatrical distribution rights for their film “The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell.” My brother served as the film’s director of photography, editor, and co-owner. His film was featured at the …
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Helvetica in 23 Characters
Yesterday I sat through a screening of the film “Helvetica” at the SXSW conference in Austin. Three weeks earlier, I attended a screening of “The Number 23.” Both films make an enlightening point of demonstrating how common — perhaps even invasive — everyday items can become. For example, I write this post while awaiting my …
Can DNSBLs Keep Spammers At Bay?
Today was an unwanted day of tinkering with and explaining spam defenses. Spam comes in many formats. The two that affect me the most are email spam and comment spam. Email Spam At the office, I have many layers of spam defenses. One of those layers are DNSBLs. DNS Stuff maintains a list of roughly …