How’s this for a new Blogdex feature? The Social Network Explorer! Does a good job of catching who’s linked to who, mutual-linkage and the like. And the recommended list seems cool though I’m not sure how it’s generated. You’d think it would be based on who’d linked to the same content, but who knows?
An Ice Cream for the rest of us. I didn’t know this existed, (sorry if its old news to you), my favorite Ice Cream makers do a special edition in honour of one of my favorite sitcom episodes! Frank Costanza would most definately not approve.
I like this, a Xmas tree as interactive webserver. Click on the pics and the tree plays festive music to whoever’s in the WPI computer lab.
Oxblood Ruffin “Foreign Minister” of cDc has written a piece for the Register entitled, “Microsoft, terrorism, and computer security”. In it he argues that Microsoft’s “security through obscurity” policy is grossly irresponsible in the light of September 11th and that, in the world we find ourselves living today, Microsoft can no longer afford to put it’s marketing goals ahead of real concerns about the security of it’s products.
This week has brought us a couple of moveable retro-gaming feasts to whet your appetite.
By staring at this perplexingly puzzle-icious flash game over at input-entertainment.de. Use a variety of differently shaped mirrors and lenses to direct a laserbeam around a maze lighting up bulbs as it goes. Several of the levels took me a good half hour to figure out, but I’m up to level 18 so far. Beat that if you can!
Chris Ware has won the UK’s
MIT’s Technology Review has an interesting feature by Claire Tristram on how our current notions of computer interface are in need of a re-think. [ It really is a lot more interesting than I just made it sound ]. via onlineblog
This article has to be read it’s so funny. Read the original piece and then move onto the posts below, witness as war breaks out between those who understand the meaning of the word “satire” and those who don’t. I found myself laughing out loud as people start taking the piss out of the h4x0rs and concerned parents who, even then, couldn’t see the error of their ways.
Space-Invaders are back and this time they’re out for a global graphical take-over.