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Is it “Identity Theft” when people simply lie?
To my home address:
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Seems to be a new PDF (malware?) spam doing the rounds: “Gmail Verification Alerts”
I just received a PDF – “Gmail Verification Letter.pdf” – with an MD5 of dfa4f3d5e56d8700400dd919d40b44f4 and which GMail passed to me without flagging as spam. Of course I’m not going to open it – at least not yet – and because it comes from Miami medical school rather than the ostensible “Gmail Team”, I am pretty…
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Mark Zuckerberg “Likes” Something That’s Awesome: Baby Foxes # FB Foxes make Gawker headlines
Somebody assign me a task for the ‘Love’ button… These outrageously adorable baby foxes were born on the grounds of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park. They like to hang out in the Zen Garden. And they’re the stars of a Facebook page called “FB Foxes.” Do you like them? Of course you like them. They…
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Hackers prepare for first “national holiday” in their honor – Boing Boing
Hackers often encounter public uncertainty at their craft’s virtue. With the forthcoming National Day of Civic Hacking, however, their celebration of creativity, collaboration and technical innovation sees its first “national holiday.”Groups leading the June 1-2 event include Random Hacks of Kindness, Code for America and the investment firm Innovation Endeavors. They’re working with government agencies…
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The Daily Beast as seen by Ghostery
Install Ghostery on Chrome or Firefox; this page is particularly impressive:
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…aaaaaand I’m back.
Been a bit quiet here, recently. Back now. Normal-ish service to be resumed over the next few weeks.
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STOOPIDTALL – CICLAVIA 2013 – LA BIKE CULT on Vimeo #MUSTWATCH
STOOPIDTALL – CICLAVIA 2013 – LA BIKE CULT from Richie Trimble on Vimeo. via STOOPIDTALL – CICLAVIA 2013 – LA BIKE CULT on Vimeo.
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MUST READ: What’s wrong with “Good, clean wi-fi”?
David Cameron says he backs “good, clean wi-fi” plans to filter public wireless networks from inappropriate content. Apart from this being a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist (hoards of toddlers plaguing cafes with porn watching), the potential problems are obvious. Most public wifi networks already have content filters in place, however, and as…
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Stoya Interview
Village Voice – as ever it’s impossible to extract a mere paragraph to quote…
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trappistes rochefort and lindt …
… part of a balanced supper.
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Aw, how sweet… #IBM
Dear Alec, I recognise that this is an unorthodox approach, so I will be brief and hope you find time to respond. IBM’s acquisition of Green Hat has given us a leadership position in the service virtualisation and integration testing market. IBM’s service virtualisation solution enables our customers to simulate and model the services that…