A recent privacy study from Berkeley shows how far such a strategy might reach. The Berkeley researchers found that nearly all of the top 100 sites on the web contain some sort of “web bug,” another term for the hidden web connection that allows a third party to automatically track a user on the site. Some of these sites will load dozens of web bugs on each page visit, which will litter user data far and wide on third party servers.
Read the whole post at Freedom to Tinker.
Or, check out KnowPrivacy.org, and watch their short video on web bugs.
And download the Firefox (ahem) add-on Ghostery. It’s amazing and scary:
Now that’s what I call a delightful baking interface.
(via justbesplendid)
Google Buzz, day 1:
If nothing else, Buzz thus far has lived up to it’s name.
But inYerFace says, “Buzz, buzzz…boring!!”
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A critical moment for my gmail filters
Will someone please create a vid like this for the iPad? I find the sparkly wifi much more entertaining.
Kthxbye.
Now that’s a big font.
Whilst watching Up In The Air (very good by the way) the other day, I was distracted by the massive American Airline logo on a tail-fin of a 747. And then a question popped into my head that I can’t shift: what/where is the biggest type in the world?
Dr B, ever patient with my inane fontular ramblings, suggested the Hollywood sign. Possible, I thought. After a quick visit to Wikipedia and few taps into Convertbot, it turns out the sign is set at an impressive 42,520pt. Pretty darn big.
And then I was directed to Woodtyper’s post on the Tillamook Air Museum, a massive hanger sporting the words “AIR MUSEUM” in gargantuan 120,000pt Helvetica. Now that’s BIG (see the comparative scale image above and shudder in vowel-fear).
But I’m sure that can’t be it. There must be something bigger. Probably in Vegas. Can you think of anything? Please send any suggestion on the back of a stamped addressed tweet to the usual address.
