Spun

Microsoft invites hackers to attack Vista: “A short time later, Joanna Rutkowska obliged…Before a crowd of fellow researchers and hackers, she bypassed security measures and implanted a potentially undetectable piece of malicious code called ‘Blue Pill.’ The presentation, titled ‘Subverting Vista Kernel for Fun and Profit,’ was rewarded with a hearty round of applause.”

Programmer, Meet Designer: because “rarely is a person good at both programming and designing.”

While I think the result still looks very much like a blog and not as much as a magazine as I’d like (why must CMSes influence their output so much?!), this tutorial on How to use WordPress to run a magazine may come in handy some day.

To do: Pore through this great-looking Javascript Boot Camp tutorial.

My poor, old and few Firefox extensions are falling into disrepair. I’ll have to revisit these tutorials to get myself and them back up to speed.

Stone Soup was one of my favorite childhood stories, which makes a lot of sense. In essence it’s a metaphor for open source software: everyone offering whatever ingredient they have on hand to add to the soup that everyone can enjoy. The keys to delicious soup (and a successful OS project), of course, are the stone (idea), the cauldron (forum), the village square (visibility), and the cook (leader). Update: Here’s Wikipedia’s take, which also makes the copyleft association.