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US spy operation manipulates social media

Swany — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:05:28 +0000

The Guardian: “The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.”

Perhaps this is one of them?

Most Inspired Sites

Swany — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:39:53 +0000

Most Inspired:

How to add a Google Map to a web page

Swany — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:46:08 +0000

Exploration Age:
Most people really like the embedded Google Maps, but don’t know how easy it is to add them to any page. I’ve had a few people ask me how it is done. With a little bit of HTML knowledge, anyone can quickly have a map up and running in just a few minutes.

Delivering Content with RSS for Web Developers on Mac OS X

Swany — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:22:47 +0000

Apple Developer Connectrion: RSS is revolutionizing the delivery of web content. RSS is an XML format for coordinating the delivery of time-based content streams, or ‘feeds.’ This means that RSS can be used to deliver content that changes over time. RSS provides for the inclusion of additional data, similar to email attachments, using the tag.

Podcast helper software for Macs

Swany — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:00:54 +0000

DV Guru: “I have been researching Podcast helper software as I am in the early stages of starting a vodcast (video podcasting). I would bet that many of you are also getting into podcasting, here are some of the options … Continue reading →

Unicode support in Web browsers

Swany — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:47:44 +0000

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources: ⁂

Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

Swany — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:13:06 +0000

Apple Developer Connection: Simply put, Ruby on Rails is an open source tool that gives you the advantage of rapidly creating great web applications backed by SQL databases to keep up with the speed of the web.

In Search of the Holy Grail (CSS)

Swany — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:35:10 +0000

A List Apart: Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation, another for, say, your Google Ads or your Flickr photos—and, as in a fancy truffle, a liquid center for the real substance.

Typetester — Compare fonts for the screen

Swany — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:35:00 +0000

Typetester: Preview various typefaces at different sizes, leading, and tracking.

OpenSSH cutting edge

Swany — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:10:41 +0000

Security Focus: Damien Miller: “We also implemented self re-execution at the c2k4 Hackathon. This changes sshd so that instead of forking to accept a new connection, it executes a separate sshd process to handle it. This ensures that any run-time randomizations are reapplied to each new connection, including ProPolice/SSP stack canary values, shared library randomizations, malloc randomizations, stack gap randomizations, etc.”