Friday, 26th January 2007
Social whitelisting with OpenID... (plasticbag.org). Tom’s write-up of the social whitelisting idea. Lots of sceptics in the comments.
Justin Mason: more on social whitelisting with OpenID. The author of spam assassin warns that whitelist-based trust networks are a lot harder than they look.
Ninja kitten band win Coke battle (via) There’s a headline you don’t expect to see on BBC News.
MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website. No need for the allegedly; it’s been confirmed. MySpace got GoDaddy.com to redirect DNS for seclists.org after a list of phished user accounts posted to the full disclosure mailing list list was archived there.
XForms in Firefox (via) Practical tutorial on taking advantage of the Firefox XForms plugin, sadly not yet bundled with the browser itself.
We're the largest domain registrar in the world, and my view is, for $8.95 its not okay for somebody to come and use our services to harm other people.
Farm subsidies in United Kingdom. Top recipients of EU subsidies in the UK include Tate and Lyle and Nestle—do they really need the money?
The Django Book: Deploying Django. Solid advice based on years of experience at the Journal-World and the Washington Post.
Opera Skins: Tango CL. This skin is the first thing I install when I set up Opera. It’s an enormous improvement on the default.
Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I talked to a company recently who had actually used this to come up with a name for one of their products.
Web 2.0 domain name generating shell script. ... sed “s/er$/r.com/g” ...
VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise. Bazaar and Mercurial compared from the point of view of importing 1 million diffs from Mozilla CVS. Bazaar’s import is more robust but will take more than a month to complete.