Has WordPress.Com Been Hacked?

What the hell is this in my Dashboard?

Update: I have had a son of a bitch in Comments call me a liar for posting this. I have sent an email to WordPress Support with a link to this post to ask for an official explanation.

Update 2: WordPress replied in both email and with a Comment. This is the email:

Mike,

We’re working on a new feature behind the scenes here and part of the testing code we were using for it ended up displaying on everyone’s Admin Bar for a few minutes accidentally. It wasn’t related to the service interruption from later that day, and it was not a hack on WordPress.com.

—
Ryan M.
WordPress.com | Automattic

So, the son of a bitch who called me a liar should basically go drink a glass of hydrochloric acid now.

Let me remind everyone again here that I don’t lie and I don’t create hoaxes. There are already people well-known out there eager to give you a trip down their river of psychosis. That’s how they make their money.

Sony Reader Website Meltdown

Sony, a worldwide multi-billion-dollar company, just keeps screwing up.

What the landing page for the Sony Reader Pocket Touch now looks like:

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Bad News At Camp Good News

Well, the Internet managed to punch me in the gut again …

Suicide at Camp Good News, where Sen. Scott Brown said he was molested… http://drudge.tw/h9TNgJ

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 6, 2011

Police: Apparent suicide at Camp Good News

Body found on property of Camp Good News

This is horrible news.

THE Reason Why The NookColor Sells

This is better than any TV ad Barnes & Noble could do (you have to cut them some slack on getting the price wrong; this is both TV and Fox, after all…):

And if you think people haven’t caught on:

sister bought a #NookColor and wants me to put #CM7 on it..charged her 50$ lol #WINNING

— #HeyBoo (@AmaSan25) April 6, 2011

CM7 is CyanogenMod 7 and you can learn all about that at the NookColor Portal.

The Mainstream Catches On

At doctor's office. Looking for hotspot. List of locked networks. 1: NotYourNetwork, 2: AlsoNotYourNetwork.

— Moriah Jovan (@MoriahJovan) April 6, 2011

An Amazon Tablet: Repercussions

I still waver over whether or not Amazon will release its own tablet and whether or not it will be a general tablet or a “KindlePad.”

I think it would be in Amazon’s greater interest to make it a general tablet without restricting the eBook portion of it to Kindle books.

And should Amazon enter this market, these are the effects I think it would have: