Friday, May 14, 2010

Dark Side of the Moon IRL

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon artwork recreated by Sky Arts on Primrose Hill in North London’s Regent’s Park using lasers and a smoke machine. source


Friday, January 15, 2010

Default https access for Gmail

In 2008, Google rolled out the option to always use https - encrypting your mail as it travels between your web browser and our servers. Using https helps protect data from being snooped by third parties, such as in public wifi hotspots. Google initially left the choice of using it up to the user because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data. Over the last few months, google's been researching the security/latency and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do. more...