2009 Aug 14, 10:17Micropayment service for bloggers -- "per article micropatronage". Supports levels of benefits for readers - pay X or more and get the ad-less version of my blog. Link to your fav. article through
payyattention and payyattention will count how much money your reference generated. Some neat features in there. Too bad its not a distributed protocol.
via:sambrook video money micropayment patronage journalism economics newspaper business 2009 Aug 5, 2:18"Mythbuster Adam Savage attended this year's Con ... he roamed the convention floor in his own costume and egged his Twitter followers to sniff him out." He dressed as The Joker from the opening
scene of The Dark Knight.
comic-con humor adam-savage myth-busters tv 2009 Jul 20, 5:04On robot tattoos.
humor comic via:waxy robot tattoo captcha 2009 Jul 11, 2:47
On Friday Sarah and I went to the
Mariners vs Rangers game at Safeco Field with Eric and Jane. The Mariners lost but then before the game the announcement made outside the stadium guaranteed the best service and a good time, not a
winning game -- and they were right about the good time.
The night before, we saw The Hangover which was very funny and included Zach Galifianakis who was great. Incidentally, take a look at some of Zach's
Between Two Ferns.
Last weekend Sarah and I mounted the TV to the wall which was exciting and we saw a mouse in the house!
tv baseball personal mouse house 2009 Jun 19, 3:27You must wonder if Bruce Schneier is having trouble selling his laptop just because he's Bruce Schneier and he announced his sale on his blog. I thought his description was funny though: "But I still
want to sell the computer, and I am pissed off at what is essentially a denial-of-service attack." A scam or attack to you or me is at worst a DoS to Bruce Schneier.
bruce-schneier ebay fraud security dos 2009 Jun 10, 12:17"Bruce pointed out in his return email that while the fraud pattern was a good match for escrow, the transaction size wasn't: since the item exchanged in the eBay transaction he highlighted was sold
for only $500, the price of an escrow agent would have been hard to justify. He's right."
blog security economics article bruce-schneier Bob-Blakley ebay 2009 Jun 8, 3:58"Everyone can file bugs against HTML5, including you. To be clear, that something is filed in the W3C bug database does not mean it is likely it will be included."
html5 blog bug html w3c 2009 Jun 4, 3:14You've seen the YouTube clips demonstrating the riotous effect of dropping Mentos into Diet Coke. Why not turn the fizzy fun into an epic party prank of your own? Here's our recipe for a little
cocktail we call the Manhattan Project.
via:boingboing mentos meme wired humor coke soda howto alcohol drink for:hellosarah 2009 May 29, 9:17"Anyway, the idea is to find techniques, be they arrays of bright infrared LEDs, or paints that shine well in infrared but are not obvious in visible light, and create invisible graffiti that only
shows up in tourist photos and videos."
humor graffiti ir ir-paint magic tourist photography 2009 May 29, 2:50
I like the idea of QR codes, encoding URLs and placing them
on real world objects, but the QR codes themselves are kind of ugly. To make them less obvious I thought I could spray QR codes on to an object with an infrared reflective paint and shine infrared
light on the QR codes, since most cameras, for instance the camera in my G1 phone, pick up infrared that our eyes do not.
In my search for infrared paint I've found a seller of IR ink (via programming forum) and an Infrared Paint Recipe (via IR FAQ).
In looking for this paint I've found that it comes up a lot in relation to the military for things like paint markers that are visible at
night with proper equipment, and paint that absorbs IR light to make vehicles less obvious to night vision goggles. Even though the first
reflects infrared light and the second absorbs it websites end up refering to both as infrared paint which made it difficult to search.
Additionally I found links to some other geeky infrared projects:
ir paint technical ir infrared qr qr code 2009 May 25, 10:19"Wallace and Gromit return-this time as purveyors of the Top Bun bakery, despite the fact that 12 other local bakers have disappeared in the previous year. Now it's up to Gromit to solve the mystery
while Wallace woos new love interest Piella Bakewell."
humor movie wallace-and-gromit animation claymation for:hellosarah 2009 May 3, 10:26Seems very similar to that ShellExecute/Firefox app URL protocol handler exploit last year. "A vulnerability in the ChromeHTML URI handler allows an attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy for any
site and also enumerate victims files and directories. When loaded in Internet Explorer, a specially crafted HTML page can launch Google Chrome with an arbitrary URI without requiring any user
interaction."
exploit security google chrome browser web url protocol 2009 May 3, 4:36Besides being an interesting presentation with real world examples off Web ideas applied to museums, the presentation itself (although its all icky flash) is lovely.
via:mattb museum flash presentation visualization 2009 May 3, 4:32Be sure to start with the first one! Vaguely reminds me of Slurms McKenzie, the original party worm.
humor web cat cute comic party party-cat via:mattb 2009 Apr 23, 6:21You can link into the middle of a YouTube video using a fragment like '#t=30m14s'. Matt combines this with his transcript...: "If you run that over your entire caption file - boom - you have a
clickable transcript of your video."
video blog hack youtube url transcript 2009 Apr 23, 2:22Review of mime sniffing based XSS attacks with recommended protections for both web sites and browsers. Also, surprising to me since I rarely see it in this sort of a paper, thought and stats on the
compat. affects of their recommended changes for browsers. Very happy to see that in there!
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