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Friday, 26th January 2007

Social whitelisting with OpenID... (plasticbag.org). Tom’s write-up of the social whitelisting idea. Lots of sceptics in the comments.

# 1 am / openid, socialwhitelisting, spam, tom-coates

Justin Mason: more on social whitelisting with OpenID. The author of spam assassin warns that whitelist-based trust networks are a lot harder than they look.

# 1:02 am / openid, socialwhitelisting, spamassassin

Ninja kitten band win Coke battle (via) There’s a headline you don’t expect to see on BBC News.

# 1:05 am / bbcnews, humor, joel-veitch, kittens

MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website. No need for the allegedly; it’s been confirmed. MySpace got GoDaddy.com to redirect DNS for seclists.org after a list of phished user accounts posted to the full disclosure mailing list list was archived there.

# 9:57 am / dns, godaddy, myspace, phishing, security

XForms in Firefox (via) Practical tutorial on taking advantage of the Firefox XForms plugin, sadly not yet bundled with the browser itself.

# 9:59 am / firefox, tutorial, xforms, xml

We're the largest domain registrar in the world, and my view is, for $8.95 its not okay for somebody to come and use our services to harm other people.

GoDaddy spokesperson

# 10:20 am / dns, godaddy

Farm subsidies in United Kingdom. Top recipients of EU subsidies in the UK include Tate and Lyle and Nestle—do they really need the money?

# 12:07 pm

The Django Book: Deploying Django. Solid advice based on years of experience at the Journal-World and the Washington Post.

# 12:38 pm / deployment, django, django-book

Opera Skins: Tango CL. This skin is the first thing I install when I set up Opera. It’s an enormous improvement on the default.

# 4:16 pm / opera, skin

Web 2.0 Company Name Generator. I talked to a company recently who had actually used this to come up with a name for one of their products.

# 6:38 pm / funny, web2

Web 2.0 domain name generating shell script. ... sed “s/er$/r.com/g” ...

# 11:29 pm / funny, web2

VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise. Bazaar and Mercurial compared from the point of view of importing 1 million diffs from Mozilla CVS. Bazaar’s import is more robust but will take more than a month to complete.

# 11:44 pm / bazaar, mercurial, mozilla, version-control