I don’t think this is what recursion in computing is meant to be…

Huntingdon Life Sciences has been engaged in animal testing for a few decades now and has been repeatedly exposed in the media for their cruel treatment of animals. Were this really providing an advance in medical research, some might be tempted to give them a slack for it - but cosmetic products, fertilizers, dyes and artificial sweeteners hardly justify anything.

Huntingdon vs. SHAC & InsideHLS

So some Facebook code got leaked in a bunch of places so obviously the guys sent around DMCA notices [I got wind of it when on the BinRev Forums the mods had to edit some parts of a thread to remove some of that code.]

But! The code can still be found in Google’s cache so I got my copy - and made a mirror in .jp  I won’t link to it for various reasons, but it is available for those that want it.

I am a strong supporter of RSS. I try to publish all my sites with a full feed to ease access to information and try to find ways around restrictions, technological¹ or otherwise, that would prevent me from sharing as much as I can.

So, taking this a step forward, I think we should start considering moving large parts of the web completely into RSS - with a few changes.

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1. Such as the new versions of WordPress cutting text in the RSS feed at <more> tags [↩]

.. and, two days in, a happy Mac [soon-to-be-power] user.

Please, call me the Mac Daddy.

Apple closed the iPhone down fairly tightly and haven’t provided a toolkit for developers to play with and compile their application with. No matter: Nightwatch made one. They haven’t allowed instant messaging. Other people made their own¹, even a video conferencing client. A few thoughts on all of this.

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1. This is far from a complete list, I’m sure [↩]

Beyond the superior rendering capabilities and improved security that Firefox provides, another reason I love using it lies in the power that Extensions provide to the user. Since historically speaking, Firefox was meant as a lightweight browser, it allows extensibility through various add-ons that the user may find useful. Here’s my power-user, supercharged version of FF¹.

As you may be able to tell, I’ve tried to dedicate as much space as possible to viewing websites and less to the things I don’t use [like navigation buttons.] Here’s what I have [click the pic above for the full-size rendition] and how I browse:

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1. Bon Echo used to be the codename for Firefox 2. Since the main Mozilla team has been slow to use Mac OS X’s native buttons and look and feel, somebody very nice made a minor ‘port’ of sorts - but due to obvious copyright issues the name and logo were changed. Regardless, whatever you do in Bon Echo is automatically synchronized with vanilla Firefox - this means history, bookmarks, plugins etc [↩]

surveys are biased because many people refuse to take them. our sample sizes are always the willing - they form a trend that’s removed from the norm already.

1. My name means “Protector of Man”. This is so not helping with my delusions of grandeur and incessant soapbox ranting.
2. It’s funny people clean their caches to speed things up; it’s exactly for that reason we have caches in the first place.
3. I hate remembering I have good ideas that I don’t write down. Coding or writing or whatever - I have to make myself a centralized repository. A wiki sounds appropriate - or maybe a CMS, in case some of these projects become public.
4. <I’ll keep this an open list…>

… that are having fun at DEFCON 15! I can’t wait to find the time and freedom to get there… maybe next year? BTW this baby sounds like the ideal machine to bring there [wipe clean before, wipe clean after, of course =) .]