aviary :: July

After stumbling upon slsahdot.org, I found out about the Cricket data visualization project. I might have some use for this at a later time.

Slashdot

Someone in Britian has been convicted for hacking an Xbox.
There’s a giant XML-RPC hole in PHP’s libraries, affecting a huge range of PHP products.
Informit.com has an excerpt from Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data about the anatomy of a hack.
LiveScience says that a steady diet of email spam that refers to ways to maintain good health actually get people to be healthy.
23% of small-to-medium sized businesses have already implemented VoIP.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed Moxi, a brush-and-ink-style paint program, that models ink physics.
Someone has created a real wood iPod. It looks great.
ABCnews is reporting that the sun may supply enough Vitamin D to prevent skin cancer.
This article explains how to build a “chat-cord”, which is the new name for the free-phone-calls-using-Skype method.
A Russian astrologer is suing NASA for interfering with her horoscopes through the Deep Impact mission.
Amazon.com is almost at their 10 year anniversary. GNU.org has a list of Amazon’s CEO’s patents.
Infoworld finds that 20% of all Japanese businesses use open source.
China signs the London Action Plan, which is an Anti-Spam Pact that the US and UK are already a part of.
Livejournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick launches OpenID, a distributive identity system for user comments.

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