- Discovery spacewalk seen from the ground (Thierry Legault, of course!)
- Majestic Snow Batman towers over Vermont
- Ultra hi-res moon. The full-sized image is 24,000 x 24,000 pixels and half a gigabyte!
- Flash Coffee is a product tie-in just waiting to happen! (That F’ing Monkey). It would fit right in with the Central City Track Team shirt.
Category: Computer Security
Links: Clouds, the Blue ‘e’, and Bobby Tables
- Incredible photo from APOD: Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus. I’ve finally replaced my Woodbridge Snow photo as my desktop wallpaper at home.
- Microsoft provides an interesting look back at the evolution of the Internet Explorer logo over the past fifteen (yes, fifteen) years.
- 100-year data preservation. A 350-year-old copy of Shakespeare is still readable. But what about that 35-year-old floppy disk?
- Funny: Swedish voters submit SQL injection and JavaScript attacks on hand-written ballot. The article’s title refers back to the XKCD comic about “Bobby Tables.” (via Slashdot)
Links: Unconventional Art, Private Browsing
Some recent linkblogging. (Thank you, StumbleUpon)
Art
- Video: the return of the adorably deadly Mini Cannon (set to “O Fortuna,” no less).
- Cool: Art using Rubik’s Cubes as pixels (via StumbleUpon and @designboom)
- Where Science, Art and Photography Intersect – 25 fascinating photos done with long or multiple exposures with flames, light, water and more.
- How Star Trek designers envisioned the iPad – 23 years ago!
Privacy
- Just how private is private web browsing? Maybe not as private as you think.
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If Your Password is “123456”, Just Make it “HackMe” (New York Times). Security researchers examine a list of 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, and the most common are…well…pathetic. Things like “123456” (the most common), “abc123”, “password” and even “rockyou” (seriously!)
There’s been some slight improvement in the past decade, when the most common password was “12345” (the kind of combination an idiot has on his luggage). Now it’s got a whole extra digit. (Whee.)
Hmm, I wonder where “Chuck Norris” appears on the list?
(via @dixonium)
Amazon Annoyance, ATM Stupidity
- Grr. Amazon wants to stop paying me because they think I’ve been buying search keywords to link to them. No, I haven’t. Update: Two days later, they responded: it’s a bad form letter, and even if I were buying keywords, they’d only stop paying referral fees on those links.
- More concerned than usual about person sneezing in stairway.
- Bad idea: leaving your pay stub in the brochure holder by the ATM. WTF? Someone’s asking for identity theft.
- Good deed for the day: tearing it into tiny pieces and tossing the confetti in the trash.