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Archive for August, 2008
Video: The Song of the Count
One for the weekend - with so many unhappy occasions of censorship being reported the last days maybe this kind of censoring at least gets a short smile on your face.
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Image: Fear
Street Art from London.
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Video: Obama Rickrolling
Is it April 1st or already November 5th.
Well I guess it had to be done. Senator Obama RickRolled - BarackRoll’d (like a rickroll… only Presidential)…
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Security: YouTube Hijacking
It’s an issue of the Internet infrastructure well known since at least the 1990s - data / packets can be rerouted to more or less any IP address via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, RFC 4271).
BGP is normally used to announce between routers which networks are reachable by which (preferred) routes. And on the Internet all routers trust each other and there are no mechanisms built into the protocol to assure that the counterpart in a communication “does not lie“.
The issue, as said, is not new and known at least to insiders…
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Quote of the day: Virtues
For the German Knights drunkenness and debauchery were acceptable behavior but cowardliness and betrayal were not.
Today everything seems to be the other way around.
unknown, found on the Internet
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AIDS: Condom ringtones
A new Anti-AIDS campaign in India is utilizing a quite unusual approach to overcome the reluctance of Indians to use condoms.
Supported by the BBC World Service Trust and the Gates Foundation the campaign provides a ringtone for mobile phones called “condom a cappella” that - when the phone rings - is loudly advertising the use of condoms. The objective of the campaign is to make condoms more socially acceptable and…
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Video: Speed painting a F1 Crash
This is another great (speed) painting video by Martin Missfeldt. Links to his other videos below…
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Music: Ton Steine Scherben
In remembrance of the German rock band Ton Steine Scherben and Rio Reiser…
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Image: Small talk with a web designer
Great visualization of a cliche that unfortunately is too often true…
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Video: Death Star over San Francisco
Imperial Fleet Week in San Francisco - a great and exceptionally well made fan video that shows the Star Wars Empire gathering in and over San Francisco.
Star Wars fan Michael Horn, who made the short film, says he used only his “junkie DV camera” and did the processing in After Effects and Final Cut…
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