- LeakedIn: Is your password safe?
Here's a good tool that will let you check if your password was among those exposed by linked.in earlier this week. FWIW, even if your password is not in the leaked lot, I would suggest changing it anyway, as linked.in have been recently proved unsafe.
Bookmarks for June 6, 2012
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
- The world's worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
- Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
- cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
The design of street food culture.
Bookmarks for June 1, 2012
- EightMedia/hammer.js · GitHub
JS library to handle multi-touch inputs on mobile devices. Oh look, you've all gone to sleep. Don't care this'll be be handy for work.
Bookmarks for May 31, 2012
- best practices – What sysadmin things should every programmer know? – Server Fault
This is all good stuff.
- Meshu – Welcome
Personalised jewellery made from location based data, including direct links with Foursquare checkins. Lovely.
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs
Er, yes, this exactly.
- Netherlands rejects Acta, and forbids any similar legislation (Wired UK)
Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough spine to do the same…
Bookmarks for May 30, 2012
- UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott
The Internet Underground Music Archive is back. It's, ah, a bit trial and error, but basically, there's this absolutely vast pile of free music out there again. If you can't find something in here that you like, I'll eat my socks.
- Half of Detroit’s Streetlights May Go Out as City Shrinks – Bloomberg
Light as an architecture of control. Creepy as fuck – "we're just going to let poor people sit in the dark, in the hope that making their neighbourhoods less safe will make them move" is, well, not the subtext here, but the outright *text*.
Bookmarks for May 28, 2012
- Germany sets new solar power record, institute says | Reuters
Just in case you can't be arsed to click though: Germany met 50% of it's national energy needs with completely clean energy at peak sunshine hours on Friday and Saturday. This doesn't mean that we're quite ready to get rid of other power sources yet, but seriously, if this is possible now, perhaps it's time for us to spend a bit more cash (read: any) developing solar power systems? Who knows how fast we might get to the point where many nations could power themselves with solar energy?
- Cinnamon And Nutmeg Iced Coffee, by Tom Francis
This does sound tasty.
Bookmarks for May 25, 2012
- Griot
The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
- UI design in the Avengers
Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
- London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
Bookmarks for May 24, 2012
- Kosmograd: Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
If I know anyone who lives in these zones (and I suspect I do) I *strongly* encourage you to buy competitor products, and leave them prominently in your windows. And, indeed, to pass this idea on. It would be *lovely* if the streets in these areas were plastered with the logos of competing brands – not as paid for advertising, but just as spontaneous citizen reclamation of the space that belongs to them, not to advertisers and marketers.
Bookmarks for May 23, 2012
- Why I Write "Strong Female Characters"
ALPHA, the new novel by Greg Rucka is out in the UK tomorrow. I am more excited for this that I am for Mieville's latest, out the same day. I mention this, because you ought to be buying it. I also commend this article to your attention, where Greg talks about his process – I learned a few tricks I didn't know while reading it.
- 25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English | So Bad So Good
I knew a few of these, but some of the others that I didn't know are lovely, and very revealing about human nature.
Bookmarks for May 22, 2012
- 13 Things Your Camera Wishes You Knew
Some of these are things I did not know. So I'm quite happy to have read them.