2007-01-02

New Year's Weekend Roundup

Happy New Year! Hope you had an enjoyable weekend and got to spend it with friends and family. I actually got to spend Saturday alone with my wife, whilst the girls spent the night at their friends' house. We had a relaxing dinner at Mealey's in New Market MD (awesome crab dip) and then caught a late show of Casino Royale. Little bit long, but highly enjoyable, I look forward to the new Bond franchise.

Today I started taking the train from Monocacy direct to Silver Spring. Since most of DC is off today (but not me, natch) the commute was extraordinarily light. We'll see how it goes tomorrow, but it still seems a much, much better choice than the bus/metro combo.

So, on to the stories from Slashdot.

The NSFW HTML Attribute 2006.12.29 8:32
Over at The Frosty Mug Revolution, PJ Doland makes a compelling case for a new HTML attribute in the spirit of the highly-regarded 'nofollow' attribute promoted by Google — the NSFW attribute (rel='nsfw'). His original idea has been refined and expanded by positive comments from readers, resulting in a semantic solution to the issue he raises in the original post. From the article: 'Content creators can apply the attribute to paragraph tags, div tags, or any other block-level element. Doing so will indicate that the enclosed content is not safe for work. Visitors will be able to configure their browsers to block display of just the content enclosed by the flagged block-level element. This isn't about censorship. It is about making us all less likely to accidentally click on a goatse.cx link when our boss is standing behind us. It is also about making us feel more comfortable posting possibly objectionable content by giving visitors a means of easily filtering that content.'

Slashdot's Games of the Year 2006.12.29 14:25
Not everyone who works on Slashdot plays games. Enough of us do, though, that I thought it would be interesting to tap my co-workers to see what folks would call their 'game of the year'. Below are comments on the best gaming of 2006 from Chris Nandor, CmdrTaco, Chris Brown, Scuttlemonkey, and myself. Then, once you've read that, we need your help in the comments. What was the game you couldn't put down? Perhaps it was over quickly, but you know you'll be thinking about it in the future? Was it a next-gen title, or something for the good old PlayStation 2? In your opinion, what was the best game of the year?

Darwin Awards 2006 2006.12.31 10:23
The year is coming to and end so it is time to see how our genepool is doing. Darwin Awards 2006 includes everything from whacking RPGs with hammers to recreating experiments by Franklin.

GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking 2007.01.01 10:09
By simply logging in to GMail and visiting a website, a malicious website can steal your contact list, and all their details. The problem occurs because Google stores the contact list data in a Javascript file. So far the attack only works on Firefox, and doesn't appear to work in Opera or Internet explorer 7. IE6 was un-tested as of now.



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