Flickr uses Where-On-Earth IDs to map percieved boundaries of neighborhoods and other regions — much like my Neighborhood Project does with Craigslist data, using Alpha shapes instead of blobbies — and raises the same questions about collective intelligence. (via Michael)
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A way to STOP text message spam
The world needs more hacker artists
Congratulations to Stani, who won the contest to design The Netherlands’ €5 coin with a beautiful design made using Python, PIL, Gimp, Inkscape, and other free software.
Vlad and Boris present…
What are you doing here?
“That’s a Hezbollah flag.”
A reporter at The Atlantic makes a mockery of the TSA and airport security, with help from Bruce Schneier.
All your neighborhood are belong to us
A mapmaking firm is suing to keep your neighborhood boundaries out of the public domain.
Noe Valley bloggers wonder where their neighborhood is, exactly… they should check The Neighborhood Project.
He’s good enough for me.
Hilarious matching Barack Obama bumper stickers:
Either way, judging from the content of his character, he’s got my vote. (via Ross and GOMI style)
While you’re giggling, a donation couldn’t hurt.
HttpOnly cookies in Python & Pylons
Thanks to Jeff Atwood for posting about the benefits of the HttpOnly flag on cookies. Support for HttpOnly cookies has now been added to Python 2.6’s Cookie module, and Paste’s WSGIResponse. Pylons applications can now use the HttpOnly flag to protect cookies, significantly raising the bar against XSS attacks on users of those applications.
Latest versions of Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer already support HttpOnly. Now all that’s left is for Apple to fix CFNetwork to support HttpOnly and then WebKit/Safari will be able to support it too.
Mute magazine’s dymaxion map
Mute magazine’s metamap, based on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map, was a catalog of global surveillance phenomena and technology completed on September 11th, 2001; thus it was obsolete the day it was released. It’s still pretty cool, though:
PDF here.