Brief Analysis of the Gawker Password Dump
— they cracked 190k hashed passwords in under an hour; 99% were alphanumeric #Gawker hacked, source code and 1.5M user passwords released
— some were encrypted but easy to brute-force, so change your passwords! also: the torrent, the readme, and an interview with the group #Sour's "Mirror," personalized music video
— I highly recommend letting it access your Twitter/Facebook accounts #Portal Done Pro
— ridiculous 15-minute speedrun; the audio commentary explains every glitch via Rock Paper Shotgun #Mashup Breakdown's annotated Night at the Hip-Hopera
— for my money, still the best mashup album ever made via Nelson Minar #All Of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Played At Once
— courtesy of WonderTonic, which is down in the great Tumblr downtime of 2010 #Michael Jackson DS game bleats vuvuzelas when pirated
— Wikipedia lists more amusing copy-protection schemes #Satromizer OS
— glitch art for the iPad, coming soon; see also: Satromizer for iPhone via creativeapplications.net #Agent 008 Ball, HTML5 game using Canvas and Audio
— more about the design process; related: Ben the Bodyguard #Ask Reddit on culturally untranslatable phrases
— don’t comb your hair, you’re not going to be in the picture #Torrentfreak on Tubeify, a YouTube music player
— brilliant hack built on Last.fm and Billboard data; I got my invite within an hour of applying #First-person remote-control helicopter tour of NYC
— apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use via Matt Haughey #Long Felix Salmon essay on the history and future of Gawker
— serious inside baseball; Nick Denton explains the redesign, Anil says they’re still blogs, play with it here #Google tweaks algorithm in response to NYT DecorMyEyes story
— negative user reviews now affect results #Wikileaks Cablegate Reactions Roundup
I’ve been dealing with a family illness, but couldn’t let the Wikileaks Cablegate incident pass without comment. In between hospital visits, I’ve been jotting down links related to the historic leak.
It’s a stunning experiment of forced transparency, prying open government against its will without much care or concern about the ramifications. Wikileaks is the Pirate Bay of journalism — an unstoppable force disrupting whole industries because they can.
To help make sense of my own opinions about it, I rounded up some of the more interesting responses and visualizations. Enjoy.