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Interesting Links October 15 to October 18

James — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:00:40 +0000

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Who’s Stealing Your Passwords? Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy – CIO.com

For the past year, the next phase of Internet crime has been unfolding through a series of innovations showing up on the Internet underground: sophisticated and frightening, with far-reaching implications and, so far, met with near-universal disregard. In this exclusive series, CSO follows security researchers behind the curtain to examine the sophisticated global service economy behind identity theft and e-crime.

Ryanair Ad Banned

Ryanair’s ad about LastMinute.com has been banned.

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Interesting Links October 12 to October 15

James — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:00:57 +0000

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Unreal Tournament 3: Unleashed

UT3 Beta released, here are some early reactions.

Wikiwars visualised

French mercenary Bob Denard dies

The French mercenary Bob Denard, notorious for coup attempts in Africa, has died at 78, his family says.

Passwords on the loose – F-Secure Weblog

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Interesting Links October 09 to October 12

James — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:00:02 +0000

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The truth about traffic on the Internet « Scobleizer

ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength

International disgrace at the WCG Grand Finals

Korean Starcraft players match-fixing. Russians cheating. Norwegian Counter-Strike players urinating on the stairs. Chinese guys threatening Taiwanese kids. It’s just another Grand Finals at the World Cyber Games.

Scary Storm figure

28 to 140 billion messages per day.

Johnny K – Dida Haha

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Interesting Links October 06 to October 09

James — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:01:02 +0000

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na Fianna vs +forward

Irish team “Na Fianna” easily beat +forward in the European Quake League.

Python Magazine – first issue free

October issue is free as a PDF

A very professional lottery 419

na Fianna vs Drastic Collision

na Fianna easily defeat the Czech team Drastic Collision

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Interesting Links October 03 to October 06

James — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:00:57 +0000

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UT3 System Requirements Released

Unreal Tournament 3 first person shooter game to be released in November 2007. The system requirements are not very demanding.

Schneier on Security: The Storm Worm

Nigerian ’419′ e-mail scammers targeted in 80 arrests around the world

Kartrider Open Beta

A colourful, free, kart racing game that is big in South Korea, apparently.

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Interesting Links September 30 to October 03

James — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:01:11 +0000

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Golden MacBook Pro – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

ARP attack to CISRT.org – C.I.S.R.T. – Chinese Internet Security Response Team (GMT +0800)

Chinese Internet Security Response Team (GMT +0800)

Artist gets probation for building secret mall apartment – Boing Boing

Dvorak Uncensored » Why It’s Time To Buy Apple Stock?

Perfect Parking in Blarney at Holy Shmoly!

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Interesting Links September 27 to September 30

James — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:02:10 +0000

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Quick Start Guide to Debian with Cisco VPNC Concentrators

Why GAA is better than soccer

24 reasons why GAA is better than soccer

Irish WCG Blog » WCG Finals Schedule

Hopefully we can beat Martinique.

IrishEyes aka topgold: Five Ways to Spot a Mobile Web Newbie

AS SOMEONE WHO RINGS up hundreds of euro each month in mobile data charges (see the extortionate effect of data roaming here), I have scratched out five ways to spot someone who does not know more than their default screen on a mobile data device.

GGL Wire » Germany too scared of Jericho, denies game’s release

Germany’s videogame review board, USK, is notorious for not allowing certain titles in the former Third Reich to be sold and it seems that it is time to add Clive Barker’s Jericho to that list. With games like Manhunt 2 and Gears of War banned, it’s actually no surprise that the gore fest that is Jericho was denied the right to see the light of day in Germany.

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Interesting Links September 21 to September 24

James — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:01:08 +0000

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Irish Internet Association – Net Visionary Awards

Voting is now open for the Net Visionary Awards, by the Irish Internet Association.

10 Best Facebook Applications For Business Professionals — Facebook Observer

TripIt | Organize your travel

TripIt – Free online trip planner and free travel itinerary website for organizing vacations, group trips or business travel

“Social Media” extension for Firefox « SocialMedia.net

BlogTalk 2008 | Main / Call For Proposals browse

Paolo Valdemarin Weblog – Picadilly

Windows error in Piccadilly Circus

zengestrom.com: How Mr. Lordi Joined Jaiku

Lordi of Eurovision fame on Jaiku

Web Design Inspiration – a photoset on Flickr

400 screenshots

The Invoice Machine | Create Invoices Easily And Free

The Invoice Machine is a free web 2.0 application that let’s you create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.

Doc Searls Weblog · InyourFacebook

Same old blog, brand new place

Global Neighbourhoods: DEMO in the afternoon

Some notes from Demo conference.

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O’Reilly Ruby

SUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn’t meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom. INTRO / BACKGROUND:…

eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users | The Register

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The Dilbert Blog: Homo Erectus

I was reading an article about the little hobbit-like creatures discovered in Indonesia. I couldn’t help notice that the article uses the abbreviation “H. Erectus” instead of the full name Homo Erectus. This is presumably to prevent jokes about why we don’t see any of them around these days.

Oliver Sacks on Earworms, Stevie Wonder and the View From Mescaline Mountain

A surgeon is struck by lightning and becomes obsessed with Chopin. An eminent psychoanalyst is kept awake by hallucinations of a singing rabbi. An
amnesiac musicologist incapable of remembering anything that happened more a few seconds ago finds refuge from his disoriented existence by performing Bach fugues.

Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending – Boing Boing

Ken sez, “In China, the massively multiplayer online game King of the World has banned all accounts of men who play female characters, and is requiring players to validate their gender via webcam in order to play females

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