Archive for February, 2007

Musicovery : interactive webRadio

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, February 26, 2007

Musicovery offers a novel, colourful and fun way of finding, listening to and buying music. By clicking on the panel on the remote control you can choose the mood of the music – energetic or calm, dark or positive. You can also select the tempo and danciness of the tunes, and limit your music by [...]

Scale Model Of The Solar System

By Surferbill - Last updated: Saturday, February 24, 2007

An eye-opening perspective of the sheer lack of anything out there in our solar system.

Drive-By Pharming

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, February 22, 2007

Symantec has an excellent flash animation explaining drive-by pharming, a technique by which attackers can steal your personal information and credentials by subverting your DNS settings in your router. The attack is triggered by visiting a malicious web site which hosts some Javascript code. This code attempts to login to your home router using the [...]

Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey – Lyrics

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, February 22, 2007

This is brilliant! Heard this on Net@Nite. Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey – Lyrics Code Monkey get up get coffeeCode Monkey go to jobCode Monkey have boring meetingWith boring manager RobRob say Code Monkey very dilligentBut his output stinkHis code not “functional” or “elegant”What do Code Monkey think?Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write [...]

AOL implements OpenID for all AOL Screen Names

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, February 16, 2007

I feel the news that AOL has enabled all screen names as OpenIDs is a good enough reason to taint my website with a link to AOL. Well done AOL! You can find out more about OpenID at http://openid.net/.

Steve Jobs on DRM

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Apple’s Steve Jobs talks about DRM and the joys of a world without it.

MySpace User? Change Your Password!

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, February 1, 2007

Just a note to anyone using MySpace: Change your password. Not only were 34,000 MySpace passwords compromised in a phishing attack in October, now 56,000 email addresses (login names) and passwords have been phished and posted to the Full Disclosure Mailing List. This means that if you use the same password for MySpace as you [...]