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March 08, 2004

Kinetic Sculpture

Basing his work on that of Jean Tinguely, Arthur Ganson has a ton of cool stuff.

Posted by mslaybau at 07:50 AM | Comments (0)

March 06, 2004

ni9e typography

ni9e.com has some good Flash stuff. The application on the home page in particular is quite interesting. Some of the resulting images would make for perfectly acceptable static art, but it would be hard to make something like this without a computer. It's a rare example of computer art that takes advantage of the qualities and benefits of computers as a medium.
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Posted by mslaybau at 03:11 AM | Comments (0)

March 04, 2004

Robot Museum

The Robot Museum has been fallow for about two years, but is still worth seeing if you want to remind yourself of the aesthetics of toy robots in the '80s, pre-Terminator and pre-Aibo.

The guy on the right (trust, me, he's all man) is a Hong Kong ripoff of a stormtrooper from Star Wars, which weren't even robots anyway.
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March 02, 2004

Site Defaced by Badboy

This is kind of neat. This site got hacked by someone named 'Badboy'. If this were a commercial site, I might be more concerned, but as it is it turned into an interesting exercise.

The site wasn't really comprimised, just the front page was altered. I suppose a good hacker could have done much worse, so it looks like Badboy is more of a 'white hat' than a 'black hat' - which is to say I imagine that he's just pointing out a lack of security in order to encourage me to hire him to tighten it up.

I would have contacted him but he didn't leave his email address. I followed the link to his web site, but it was all in Portuguese (I think) and I didn't bother with a babelfish translation.

When using a popular platform such as PHP-Nuke, there are always more security risks than when using an obscure one or writing it yourself. The publishing content delivery mechanisms that I've written myself have yet to be compromised.

The message below is what was deposited on the home page:

Site defaced by:

»._.«´¯))((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ bâdbóÿ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ bâdbóÿ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))

((¯`»._.«¦¤¦ http://www.badboyinc.vze.com ¦¤¦»._.«´¯))

You have an insecure system, if you want to learn how to avoid this actions, contact me.

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Posted by mslaybau at 06:05 AM | Comments (0)