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Howto: Google Maps Street View outside US. Add “&gl=us” at the end of the URL to avoid the evil geo IP restriction and play with Google’s latest toy.
Outcry over TV kidney competition. Reality television is now a parody of itself.
Announcing FOWA Expo—London October 2007. I’m chairing the development track.
Top XSS exploits by PageRank. Yahoo!, MSN, Google, YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook all feature.
XSSed. Cross-site scripting resource and vulnerabilities archive, including reported (unpatched) holes ordered by PageRank.
typogrify (via) “Typogrify is a collection of Django template filters that to help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases.”
Emiller’s Guide To Nginx Module Development. Extremely detailed guide to extending the nginx Web server using C.
Google Image Search does faces (via) The undocumented imgtype=face parameter. Kind of creepy.
PDF Shrink. $35 OS X app that crunches down the size of PDF files—useful if you often embed photos in your presentations.
The movie that time forgot (via) The tragically unmade “Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls”.
Reducing HTTP requests using make. Nice simple recipe for concatenating JavaScript in to one file using make—doesn’t do anything for cache-busting though.
Feedwhip. Create an RSS feed or e-mail alert for changes made to any Web page.
The Data Bill of Rights (via) John Battelle’s inherently sensible “draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web”.
Levenshtein. Python C extension for Levenshtein distance and other advanced diff functions.
The Truth About Wireless Devices. “After eating babies, the WiFi Routers will grow to enormous size and attack our cities.”
Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children. Ben Goldacre tears the ridiculous Panorama WiFi episode to pieces.
The Oxford Guide free WiFi plotted on Google Maps. The guide offers a geocoded Atom feed which can be directly plotted on a Google Map.
Category Free Wifi on The Oxford Guide (via) More hotspots, this time with RDF, Atom and RSS feeds.
Oxford on hotspotr. Nicely designed community WiFi hotspot site. Only lists two for Oxford at the moment; I plan to add more as I confirm them.
WiFi Hotspots in Oxford. The best list I’ve found, but that’s not saying a lot.
Django unicode-branch: testers wanted. Malcolm’s outstanding work on the unicode branch appears to be nearing completion.
The Twitter API Respects Your Privacy. Not Twitter’s fault: The users who exposed their data through Twittervision had given that site their username and password; Twittervision was failing to hide protected updates.
There’s a hole in your Twitter. If you’ve been using friends-only messages on Twitter they may currently be exposed via the API.
Knight Foundation grant. Adrian’s leaving the Washington Post to found EveryBlock, a startup focusing on local news and information in the style of chicagocrime.org.
Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour (via) Curse Gaming are getting impressive performance out of Django.
Web Security for Estonia—OpenID. “Every Estonian eID holder (around 80% of Estonian population) has an unique OpenID with the format open.id.ee/[firstname].[lastname](.number)”
OpenID for all Estonians. 1.37 million Estonians will soon have OpenIDs, secured using smart cards. I’d like to hear more about how the smart cards help tackle phishing.
Ten Reasons The World Needs Patent Covenants (via) Sun just made their OpenID patent covenant official. Simon Phipps explains why these are a Good Idea.
d.Construct 2007 is go! One of my favourite UK events. This year’s theme is “Designing the User Experience”.
the.british.museum (via) Great URL.