If you can remember all your passwords, you’re doing it wrong

You need strong unique passwords. Those that you can't easily remember. That's where a password manager comes in. Security experts use them.

I've been using a password manager for some time now. It improved my browser experience. It's faster and more secure.

I use LastPass to store (client side encrypted) all my login information in the cloud. I use their browser extensions to sync these passwords among my different devices. On trusted devices, like my desktop and laptop, login fields are automatically filled in. On non trusted devices, I need to enter my LastPass password before the fields are filled in.

In addition, and this is optional, I need to insert my YubiKey (USB) and press its button to authenticate with a one-time-password, again only for non trusted devices, which is rare. You could use your phone for this too.

LastPass can also store encrypted notes. These can be used for other passwords and secret information that you want to access from anywhere.

Don't forget your LastPass password ;)

Future Space Tribe :)

Monday I started work on a website and though there is enough to share now.

It's still very much a WIP! Made with Squarespace, had no idea how awesome it is, and I've only scratched the surface.

http://futuretribe.space/

Blender to WebGL

I just found out about Blend4Web, a great addon for Blender that lets you convert Blender scenes to embeddable WebGL relatively easy. Here is demo of a simple model I made for a previous project. You can rotate, pan, and zoom with mouse controls around the interactive model below:

Here is a more impressive example from a somewhat more complex project I did, big file (24MB)

As you can see from the online demos it's capable of much more impressive scenes and even interactive apps.

Google getting evil

 Google's Changing The Algorithm Again

Under a certain amount of pressure Google has announced that starting next week it will be changing the ranking algorithm. The aim is that those who are presenting other people’s copyrighted material will turn up lower down in the search results.

I think I might want to switch search engines. I heard DuckDuckGo is a good alternative. Annom can you write a script that takes a search term uses two search engines and displays them side by side in one browser window? :)

Also this happened when I searched for news. Coincidence? Better get my tinfoil hat.

Hmmm

I don't really have an internet porn addiction, but I do have internet novelty seeking addiction..

gayhomophobe.com

Counting the number of days since the last prominent homophobe was caught in a gay sex scandal. Briliant site...

European map of Flickr and Twitter locations

According to source; 'Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.'
Apparently we Dutchies have a lot to say and don't really care much about our own privacy as we tend to preach. Or am I missing something here?

Firefox vs Chrome vs IE

I mentioned this a while ago, found it:

Redditor's Wife

Lot's more here...

Wikipedia trivia

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

I tried it a few times and it worked. From the alt-text of this XKCD comic.

Nyan Cat has had it with the meme

We had this conversation once I believe

Nyan cat just became more epic

The people over at YouTube edited the progress bar of the Nyan cat video :)

Someone even made a script which makes all YouTube videos have this progress bar.

Data porn

TED: Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

Aaron Koblin's website

Johnny Cash project

The Mechanical Turk (we should think of a fun project to do with this)

Which Places Have the Most reddit Addicts? And Global reddit Meetup Day!

From the reddit blog:

Most addicted/engaged countries by avg. pageviews per visit (reddit's Google Analytics, Jan-May 2011):

Canada: 15.72
United States: 15.46
Denmark: 13.99
Norway: 13.81
Sweden: 13.34
Netherlands: 12.89
United Kingdom: 12.86
Ireland: 12.57
Belgium: 11.98
Finland: 11.27

On June 25 there is a global reddit meetup, with one of the meeting places being Amsterdam. I'm seriously thinking of going, anyone with me?

40 stacks of books from Earth to Neptune

"Three years ago, the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes, or 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information.

Researchers at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, estimate that the total is equivalent to a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books stretching from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times.

By 2024, business servers worldwide will annually process the digital equivalent of a stack of books extending more than 4.37 light-years to Alpha Centauri, according to a report compiled by the scientists.
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As large as the numbers may seem, the three scientists who worked on the report stated that their server workload figures may be low because server industry sales figures don't fully account for the millions of servers built in-house by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other companies using individual component parts ." - read more...

Rainbow reddit

I shall play you...

OCD much?

If you take pride in your OCD, this link will take about 30 minutes of your day: link.