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Entries for week beginning January 4, 2009

January 10, 2009

Atheist adverts reported to industry watchdog

As ever, Stephen Green of “Christian Voice” teeters perilously on the brink of self-parody, arguing that the Atheist Bus Campaign banners breach advertising regulations on grounds of… evidence.

Twitter / twitTheTwits

Roald Dahl’s excellent “The Twits”, 140 characters-or-so at a time. It’s only just started, so you can still catch up. Tremendously happy-making.

January 9, 2009

January 8, 2009

Burger King Says Sacrifice 10 Facebook Friends For a Whopper

Brilliant piece of viral marketing by BK. People will happily sell out their friends (and plaster BK’s name across their friend feeds) for a $3 hamburger.

Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream

Newly opened gourmet ice cream store in the Mission. “Balsamic caramel” and “Pistachio-bacon” are both calling my name.

Amazon.com: Ari Brouillette's review of The Secret

I’ve often been sneery at the unmitigated hokum that is “The Secret”, but this review might have convinced me to open my mind to it.

Moscone Center

Moscone Center

Gallantly, unprofessionally, requesting a prize. #mimobot #macworld

(Taken at the Mimobot booth and posted to Twitter in a shameless attempt to win a free USB drive!)

January 7, 2009

DJ Spooky plays the EFF party

DJ Spooky plays the EFF party

DJ Spooky plays the EFF party

DJ Spooky plays the EFF party

"The Noises Rest"

The YouLookNiceToday boys investigate the art of silent film foley.

January 6, 2009

Weak Password Brings 'Happiness' to Twitter Hacker

Full details on yesterday’s Twitter hack. Twitter’s admin interface was available offsite to all their admin users, one of whom has a weak password, plus their monitoring didn’t notice a dictionary attack going on. Oops.

January 5, 2009

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

The bitter payoff of the final paragraph is epic. I can only dream of being able to compose something so perfectly pointed. I’d probably have gone with “Fuck yous all. kthxbai”

Obama Phished?

Obama Phished?

Looks like the president-elect's Twitter credentials have been compromised.

January 4, 2009

Sen:te - GPGMail

The plugin for OS X’s Mail app which makes cryptography easily manageable.

The most important new feature in Python 3.0

import antigravity

xkcd - Converting to Metric

I’m not sure why Americans think this is so hard…

Quick cryptogeek note

I’m stopping using my old PGP key (0×8C80C35F). It’s been active for 12 years, and I had set it to expire later this year, so I’m retiring it now.

In its place is 0×1A5FFE23 which I will use for personal purposes for the next five years. It has been signed by 0×8C80C35F (as well as the CACert root key), so should be considered trustworthy. Almost all personal mail from me shall be signed with this key.

PS. I am not being rubber-hosed as I type this.

saute-swinish