Entries for Monday, May 18, 2009
➠ May 18, 2009
Random benefit of working on SuperPoke! Pets: Your Twitter searches find random posts containing the words “poke” and “pet”.
Posted to Twitter at 2:32 p.m.
Some context for my TwitShirt can be seen at http://rdbgb.us/oct30. What was a fairly dumb drunken post worked out perfectly in the long run
Posted to Twitter at 1:33 p.m.
My TwitShirt has arrived, and looks lovely http://twitpic.com/5g0il (http://tr.im/lH3W)
Posted to Twitter at 1:07 p.m.
The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball
Simple Flash animation which explains the “breaking” of a curve ball.
Dark Night of the Soul
New album by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, with a shedload of guest contributors.
Due to legal wranglings, you can’t buy the album. But they will sell you a book of photos by David Lynch and a custom blank CD-R for $50, to which you can write any music you like. For example, one of the copies of “Dark Night of the Soul” available on most file-sharing networks.
The Usability of Passwords
“It is 10 times more secure to use “this is fun” as your password, than “J4fS<2”.” True dat. Of course, password complexity isn’t really an issue. Easiest way to crack a user’s password? Hack a website (or social engineer someone that works for a website) that stores passwords in cleartext.
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