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Offworld, Boing Boing’s new gaming blog

That web design is so retro it makes me want to eat mushrooms.

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German politician, former Stasi employee forbids use of wikipedia.de domain

“A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against [...] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service.”

Relying on country specific Tld’s controlled by governments while clowns, shit eaters and torturers like Lutz Heilmann are running loose in parliament is a bad idea.

Majority of Finnish 55–64 year olds are for limitations of free speech for the purpose of “taming” the Internet (in Finnish)

Just what we needed: delusional Baby Boomers who blame school shootings on the Internet. The sooner every single one of these purposeless assclowns go sit in the corner and die from heart diseases caused by lifestyle choices, the better off the rest of us are.

This kind of clueless, frightened mental defecation from some old people, concerning everything related to the Internet might actually affect technology law & policies. I get sick thinking of these things.

As far as civil liberties are concerned, I’m sure these cold-war trained, censorship happy idiots wouldn’t mind the idea of being time-machined back to some country behind the iron curtain 30 years ago, if they could take their cars, summer cottages and overweight grand-children with them.

See also: English Google translation of the above article

Estonian domain registrar Estdomains no longer ICANN-accredited

F-Secure’s blog post offers an interesting look at a “the largest registrar used by online criminals“, including a presentation of its owner and even the de-accreditation letter.

Unicode Snowman for You

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Pääsy Youtubeen estetty poliisiviranomaisten tietokoneilla

“Tavallinen poliisi ei pääse tietokoneeltaan katselemaan YouTube-palvelun videoita verkossa.

Poliisin työtä ohjaava sisäministeriö ylläpitää listaa internetsivustoista, joille tavallisella poliisilla ei ole pääsyä. Suosittu videopalvelu on mukana estolistalla, jota ministeriö perustelee tietoturvasyillä.
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“Meillä oli hirveästi ongelmia YouTuben kanssa silloin kun se oli sallittu”"

Selainturvallisuuden parantamiseksi tietoturvajeesus suosittelee esimerkiksi virtualisointia, adblockereita ja Firefoxia.

WolfenFlickr 3D - Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup

A Wolfenstein 3D level with Flickr photos from a user account or search query instead of nazi art covering the walls. Explained in detail on the developer’s blog.

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Notes to Self

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Interesting domain admin address found in whois record for phishing domain

Nmap 4.75 includes visual network topology mapper

This is something I’ve wanted for a long time: the world’s most famous networking/security software utility can now draw pretty pictures.

Google News Archive Adds Many Scanned Newspapers

Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube

[via:slashdot]

Just a Facebook chain letter

I find stuff like this amusing in a sad way; I’m never sure if the few people I know who keep sending me these do it with a campy/kitschy attitude (which should be illegal, even on FB) or if they somehow are unsophisticated enough to find this shit credible, or funny.

“Facebook is going to clear facebook accounts if ..

We all know that Facebook is an extraordinary social network where you can talk to friends, find old friends, and so much more.

The Facebook team is well aware that Facebook is getting over populated due to the fact that registrations have increased 50% since February 15 2008. At their signing in database, it shows that more than a quarter of the members of Facebook havn’t logged into their accounts in over a month.
So where is this leading to you may ask. Facebook is clearing their entire data base and deleting users who have not sent this message to their friends. If you are one of the these people, you will get your user account wiped and would have to re add all your friends. So send this message to as many of your friends as you can, I know you don’t want to start all over from scratch so send away, show your pride for members Facebook!

- Irin rayiz“

Se also (this is a link blog after all): chainletters.net

Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com in status posts

BugMeNot is a wonderful service which publishes user accounts for sites with stupid login/registration requirements (New York Times, I’m looking at you).

Google Chrome, new crazy fast multi-process based WebKit browser

The advantages of the engineering choices made by the developers are discussed in Google’s blog entry and in this comic.

In related news, IE8 beta 2 is really bloated.