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All things popular on the Web up until this point in time has been captured perfectly in this single video created by Dan Meth. Get your junk-food-for-the-mind fix with this ode to Internet pop culture here:

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This is a reminder to myself. The next time I need to download my favourite packet sniffer, I shan’t look for Ethereal anymore, for Ethereal is now known as Wireshark. I’ve used Ethereal so much in the past, whether to track down a Russian spammer/WaReZ hocker or to detect a rogue worm running [...]

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Last week, it was reported that approximately 60 GMail users had all of their email accidentally deleted (Dena and I weren’t affected, thank goodness). Then no more than 24 hours ago, a vulnerability was discovered in that a malicious website can swipe your email address from a cookie if you’re logged into GMail at [...]

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TSN has been providing video footage of recaps and highlights for the various sports in the “TSN Broadband” area of their website for a while now, and they’re not the only television network doing this. However, one of the greatest displays of technology and the use of the Internet is that TSN is broadcasting [...]

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Skype will charge for SkypeOut calls as of the start of 2007. It’s a shame that they decided to charge for it now, since I liked not having a long distance plan, but it was fairly obvious that it was going to happen. Even so, their rate of $30/year is still cheaper than [...]

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To follow up something that I posted last week, there’s a project going on at the U of T, called Psiphon. It’s goal is to allow those who live in countries in which the government restricts Internet access, unfettered rights to the Web. From what I can tell, Psiphon provides proxy access to [...]

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Being an avid reviewer of my own web server logs like the dork that I am, I noticed a referral to my site from:
http://asp-cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/list.html
Apparently this is part of a graduate research project at Harvard University. More info about the project can be found here. After a quick search of the listing, I found [...]

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Ned’s Atomic Dustbin was were right when they instructed us to murder our TVs. Not a whole lot on TV interests me at the moment; just more of the same ol’ same ol’. IPTV, on the other hand, brings a lot of new things to the table such as choice, variety and convenience.
Tonight, [...]

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Nobody wants to sit through another one of my gripe sessions about how the majority of Google’s services don’t allow GMail for Your Domain users to login with their domain email address, thus forcing you to use a Gmail address, correct? I’ve done it before and perhaps for the last time…
Last evening, I received [...]

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How do you dress-up your Firefox? I don’t use any third-party themes, but here are extensions that I use on my computers:
Google Toolbar
Search term suggestions. Phishing detection. AutoFill for speedy completion of webforms. Spell check. This is a handy extension, but I’m not sure if I’ll have a need for [...]

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It turns out that lonelygirl15 is a fraud, like I suspected. The LA Times printed a follow-up story, and it seems that the goal was to exploit the Web as a new distribution method for entertainment. And why not? There aren’t a whole lot of interesting things happening on traditional TV. [...]

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The season debuts of the Simpsons and Family Guy appeared last Sunday. Those two shows, including hockey and football, are pretty much all I care to watch on TV anymore. Nothing really interests me, so I’ve turned to the Web for video entertainment. I’m a daily follower of shows like Ze Frank’s [...]

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