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Entries for Monday, May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball

Simple Flash animation which explains the “breaking” of a curve ball.

Dark Night of the Soul

New album by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, with a shedload of guest contributors.

Due to legal wranglings, you can’t buy the album. But they will sell you a book of photos by David Lynch and a custom blank CD-R for $50, to which you can write any music you like. For example, one of the copies of “Dark Night of the Soul” available on most file-sharing networks.

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The Usability of Passwords

“It is 10 times more secure to use “this is fun” as your password, than “J4fS<2”.” True dat. Of course, password complexity isn’t really an issue. Easiest way to crack a user’s password? Hack a website (or social engineer someone that works for a website) that stores passwords in cleartext.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.