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Mykonos, Greece Paradise Beach in Mykonos is the place to be at the height of the summer in Greece, but don't bother if all-night beach parties aren't your thing. The beach's many bars and tavernas keep everyone occupied by night, when dance parties take over the beach, and sunrise just means it's time to pick a spot for your towel for the next day. By day, water sports and sun tanning are activities of choice. The Hotel Belvedere, built in the style of a Cycladic village, is our recommendation for accommodation on the island. Room rates start at $137 per night.-----------------------------
Santa Maria
Forte Dei Marmi, Italy Forty miles outside of Florence, Forte dei Marmi is a prime resort on the Italian Riviera. A favorite among the wealthy Tuscans who own pine-screened villas here, as well as of visiting Europeans and Americans, Forte dei Marmi is famous for its weekly market, where shoppers can score fabulously discounted designer shoes, beachwear, crockery and almost anything else you can think of. For the most part, the sandy beaches are meticulously combed and clean, and it's not unusual for one family to reserve a block of tents and beach chairs for the entire summer. Santa Maria beach has some of the best people-watching, and we recommend the California Park Hotel, just two minutes away. Room rates start at $280 per night during August.-----------------------------
Las Salinas
Ibiza, Spain Las Salinas in Ibiza is framed with pine trees and located at Ibiza's southern-most point. The beach is the center of the action for the party-seeking crowd that takes over the island every summer, but that doesn't mean it's for everyone. Exclusive beach bars will deliver drinks right to your towel or lounge chair, but they aren't cheap--you'd do well to remember your wallet even if you leave your bathing suit behind. For a break from the beach, the wildlife conservation area surrounding the beach is perfect. At night, the Cas Gasi, a cozy inn, is located nearby. But like everything else in Ibiza during the summer, it's expensive. Room rates start at $335 per night.For more information, call (011) 34-971-197-700 or visit www.casgasi.com.
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Formentera, Spain Formentera, a tiny Balearic island just below Ibiza, shares the temperate climate and sensuous beaches of its neighbors Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca. But it's smaller and best navigated by bicycle, which works to deter hordes of summertime party-goers and render the beaches safe for families and intimate groups of friends. That's not to say that they are staid, however: Illetes, a stretch of white sand and green water, is home to water sports like sailing and rafting and provides more than enough inspiration for even the most intrepid topless tanner. Formentera is accessible by boat, and we recommend a day trip from Ibiza, where there are more and better places to stay. Pikes Hotel is an island mainstay and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this July. Room rates start at $244 per night.For more information, visit www.pikeshotel.com.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Copacabana Beach is a three-mile-long stretch of sand, framed by Sugarloaf Mountain on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. Brazil's famous Christ the Redeemer monument surveys the scene from on high, and what a scene it is. Frantic games of soccer and beach volleyball (played on full-size courts carved in the sand) compete for space with determined sunbathers wearing as little as possible. The place to stay is the beachfront Copacabana Palace Hotel, which opened in 1923 as the first luxury hotel in South America. Room rates start at $320 per night.====================
compiles pricing info from car-rental companies at major U.S. airports and links to special rates on other sites (like a recent
Priceline.com sale for a $12-per-day rental car). Because it works with airport locations, Breezenet.com is most useful if you’re traveling via plane and want a car waiting for you when you land.
For more information, visit www.breezenet.com.
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SeatGuru.com provides seating maps and a helpful color-coded quality key (green is a good seat, yellow means be aware, and you don’t want red). Once you select your airline and aircraft, you’ll be able to see just where each seat falls on the floor plan, as well as which in-flight amenities (including video, AC power and Internet access) are available. The site is most useful when booking a ticket on an air carrier’s site.
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Site59.com’s niche is the last-minute weekend getaway: Bookings can be made up to three hours before departure. The site works with partner hotels, airlines and car-rental companies to garner deals on last-minute inventory or services that would otherwise go unsold, compiling packages in site-specific categories like "Under $250," "Romance," or "Vegas/Casino." Packages are available in flight/hotel, flight/car and hotel/car combinations, but users must use every component of the package.
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If you can be flexible with your dates and even destination, TravelZoo.com is more effective at offering cheap fares than any other Web site we’ve encountered. Examples include $88 round-trip tickets to the Caribbean--though be warned that very often they're only available on undesirable travel days, like Monday, and the deals can sell out quickly. Airfare, car rental, lodging and cruise specials are displayed right up front on the home page. There’s limited search capability (by destination only), so be prepared to be spontaneous!
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Personal travel blogs have overtaken mass e-mails as the tool of choice for staying in touch with family and friends while on the road--and thank goodness. We like MyTripJournal.com for its colorful and easy-to-use features like "Find a Friend’s Web Site" and the customizable world map. Even if you aren’t currently traveling, browsing the site allows you to experience someone else’s vacation vicariously.
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Vijay Dandapani, former chairman of the Hotel Association of New York, pens this eponymous blog, which documents the idiosyncrasies of the hospitality industry in New York and beyond. Though Dandapani is currently chief operating officer of Apple Core Hotels, the site is far from a venue for shilling; Dandapani chronicles everything from the Registered Traveler’s Program proposed by the Transportation Security Administration to whether the shortage of New York City hotel rooms is real or illusory. This is a site for industry professionals--or those with an avid interest in the hospitality industry.
For more information, visit www.vijaydandapani.com.
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In
2000, readers of
Total Film magazine voted
Monty Python and the Holy Grail the 5th greatest comedy film of all time.
A
musical entitled
Monty Python's Spamalot, based on
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, opened in
Chicago, Illinois on
December 21,
2004, and moved to
Broadway in March 2005. Eric Idle wrote the musical's book, and he collaborated with John Du Prez for the music and lyrics. It is directed by
Mike Nichols but features none of the original Python actors, though God is played by the pre-recorded voice of John Cleese. It won Best Musical at the
Tony Awards in 2005, and it also won a 2006
Emmy Award.
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http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeonardoRighttoLeft.html
Leonardo wrote in Italian using a special kind of shorthand that he invented himself. People who study his notebooks have long been puzzled by something else, however. He usually used "mirror writing", starting at the right side of the page and moving to the left. Only when he was writing something intended for other people did he write in the normal direction.
| Here is a sample of Leonardo's writing as it appears in his drawings. |  |
This is how it would look reversed by a mirror. |  |
| Try it yourself! |
People who were contemporaries of Leonardo left records that they saw him write and paint left handed. He also made sketches showing his own left hand at work. Being a lefty was highly unusual in Leonardo's time. Because people were superstitious, children who naturally started using their left hands to write and draw were forced to use their right hands. No one knows the true reason Leonardo used mirror writing, though several possibilities have been suggested:
- He was trying to make it harder for people to read his notes and steal his ideas.
- He was hiding his scientific ideas from the powerful Roman Catholic Church, whose teachings sometimes disagreed with what Leonardo observed.
- Writing left handed from left to right was messy because the ink just put down would smear as his hand moved across it. Leonardo chose to write in reverse because it prevented smudging.
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Slashdot as a trend setter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
Because of its technically savvy and innovation-oriented audience, Slashdot has played a major role in the popularisation of new web sites, technologies and Internet movements. Preferences among editors, contributors, comment authors, and moderators can generate major interest in certain companies, ideas, and products. Some examples include Google, iPod, software patents, Linux, and Mozilla Firefox.
Recurring jokes
Reflecting the speed of contemporary pop culture in general and Internet phenomena in particular, many of Slashdot's recurring jokes enjoy brief shelf-lives. Some posters, aware of Slashdot's trolling subculture, often deliberately set out to create and propagate new memes, hoping to make a new joke catch on.
A poster will sometimes combine several well-known jokes, including many of those listed below, into one "super-cliche." A successful attempt produces a post that is either quite funny or incredibly annoying, depending on a reader's perspective, and is almost always nonsensical outside the immediate context. Example here.
Another recent joke involves chairs being thrown, in a reference to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who reportedly threw a chair upon hearing that Google had hired one of the chief Microsoft developers. It usually refers to an IT-related upset and ends something like 'I hope no one got hurt by flying chairs'.
Frequently, (as of early 2006) when a computer or component is announced or released that is above a standard PC component, power-wise, it is asked: "Yeah, but can it run Vista?" This is intended to ridicule Windows Vista's extreme system requirements for running several new features, such as the revised GUI.
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Overheard in New York is a
blog maintained by S. Morgan Friedman and Michael Malice that humorously documents snippets of conversation heard by passersby in
New York City, who submit them to the website for publication, a format first created by the Web site
In Passing.
A similar website exists for comments overheard on London's Underground network found here. While the Overheard In concept is enjoying considerable popularity with the advent of blogs, there is a substantial history of posting "overheard" content online for amusement. A Google search for Overheard on IRC reveals many gems, however much of this content is without the popular appeal of the latest series of sites.
Towards the end of 2005 an Irish series of overheard in websites were started by the brother and sister team of Sinead and Gerard Kelly. Given the wit of the Irish the Overheard in Dublin site is quickly gained significant popularity.
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Google's advanced syntax lets you expose many vulnerabilities and gather confidential or sensitive information.
[ intitle: ]
The “intitle:” syntax helps Google restrict the search results to pages containing that word in the title. For example, “intitle: login password” (without quotes) will return links to those pages that has the word "login" in their title, and the word "password" anywhere in the page.
Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in the page title then in that case “allintitle:” can be used instead of “intitle” to get the list of pages containing all those words in its title. For example using “intitle: login intitle: password” is same as querying “allintitle: login password”.
[ inurl: ]
The “inurl:” syntax restricts the search results to those URLs containing the search keyword. For example: “inurl: passwd” (without quotes) will return only links to those pages that have "passwd" in the URL.
Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in an URL then in that case “allinurl:” can be used instead of “inurl” to get the list of URLs containing all those search keywords in it. For example: “allinurl: etc/passwd“ will look for the URLs containing “etc” and “passwd”. The slash (“/”) between the words will be ignored by Google.
[ site: ]
The “site:” syntax restricts Google to query for certain keywords in a particular site or domain. For example: “exploits site:hackingspirits.com” (without quotes) will look for the keyword “exploits” in those pages present in all the links of the domain “hackingspirits.com”.
[ filetype: ]
This “filetype:” syntax restricts Google search for files on internet with particular extensions (i.e. doc, pdf or ppt etc). For example: “filetype:doc site:gov confidential” (without quotes) will look for files with “.doc” extension in all government domains with “.gov” extension and containing the word “confidential” either in the pages or in the “.doc” file. i.e. the result will contain the links to all confidential word document files on the government sites.
[ link: ]
“link:” syntax will list down webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For Example: “link:www.securityfocus.com” will list webpages that have links pointing to the SecurityFocus homepage.
[ related: ]
The “related:” will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For Example: “related:www.securityfocus.com” will list web pages that are similar to the Securityfocus homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.
[ cache: ]
The query “cache:” will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. For Example: “cache:www.hackingspirits.com” will show Google's cache of the Google homepage.
If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For Example: “cache:www.hackingspirits.com guest” will show the cached content with the word "guest" highlighted.
[ intext: ]
The “intext:” syntax searches for words in a particular website. It ignores links or URLs and page titles. For example: “intext:exploits” (without quotes) will return only links to those web pages that has the search keyword "exploits" in its webpage.
[ phonebook: ]
“phonebook” searches for U.S. street address and phone number information. For Example: “phonebook:Lisa+CA” will list down all names of person having “Lisa” in their names and located in “California (CA)”. This can be used as a great tool for hackers incase someone want to do dig personal information for social engineering.
Using “Index of ” syntax to find sites enabled with Index browsing
A webserver with Index browsing enabled means anyone can browse the webserver directories like ordinary local directories.
Some interesting searches:
Index of /admin
Index of /passwd
Index of /password
Index of /mail
"Index of /" +passwd
"Index of /" +password.txt
"Index of /" +.htaccess
"Index of /root"
"Index of /cgi-bin"
"Index of /logs"
"Index of /config"
Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “inurl:” or “allinurl:”
a. Using “allinurl:winnt/system32/” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to restricted directories like “system32” through web. If you are lucky enough then you might get access to the cmd.exe in the “system32” directory. Once you have the access to “cmd.exe” and are able to execute it then you can go ahead in further escalating your privileges over the server and compromise it.
b. Using “allinurl:wwwboard/passwd.txt”(without quotes) in the Google search will list down all the links to the server which are vulnerable to “WWWBoard Password vulnerability”. To know more about this vulnerability you can have a look at the following link:
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/2BUQ4S0SAW.html
c. Using “inurl:.bash_history” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to “.bash_history” file through web. This is a command history file. This file includes the list of command executed by the administrator, and sometimes includes sensitive information such as password typed in by the administrator.
d. Using “inurl:config.txt” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the servers which gives access to “config.txt” file through web. This file contains sensitive information, including the hash value of the administrative password and database authentication credentials.
Other similar search using “inurl:” or “allinurl:” combined with other syntaxs
inurl:admin filetype:txt
inurl:admin filetype:db
inurl:admin filetype:cfg
inurl:mysql filetype:cfg
inurl:passwd filetype:txt
inurl:"wwwroot/*."
inurl:adpassword.txt
inurl:webeditor.php
inurl:file_upload.php
inurl:gov filetype:xls "restricted"
index of ftp +.mdb allinurl:/cgi-bin/ +mailto
Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “intitle:” or “allintitle:”
a. Using [allintitle: "index of /root”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the web server which gives access to restricted directories like “root” through web. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.
b. Using [allintitle: "index of /admin”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the websites which has got index browsing enabled for restricted directories like “admin” through web. Most of the web application sometimes uses names like “admin” to store admin credentials in it. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.
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del.icio.us mp3s (list of popular mp3 links on del.icio.us; you can play them on the spot)
intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) Madonna hung up (Google search for unprotected directories of audio files or files of type mp3 and wma -- in this case Madonna's Hung up. Replace the artist and the song with anything you like.)
The
Hype Machine is a web site that gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner.
Using these links and many more you can discover great music, but not always legal mp3s.
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