Thrown between the temptation to explore the dark side or spend her day in mundane familiarity, she contemplated her big move.

current mood: sleepy

I want to sit in that bag

Originally uploaded by Dalfry

How to show everyone what's on your Kodak frame.

So much win:

• If you know or guess the MAC address of any Kodak wireless digital picture frame, you can extract the images that are displaying on it.

• You can also remotely reset the frame, meaning you can 0wnz0r it and change its image sources.

So Kodak has built an appliance for letting complete strangers (a) browse your family photos, and (b) beam shock porn directly into your living room! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

This all works because the appliances won't connect to (e.g.) Flickr directly, they only phone home to Kodak's server, which then proxies all of the requests. But at least they're using OAuth instead of making you type your Flickr password into Kodak's server. This is a little surprising, actually, given the tip-top job their security engineers did of designing the rest of the infrastructure of this product line.

I am not a big fan of cherries but I admire them purely for decorative reasons.

current mood: tired

A couple of good stories I came across today:

• The Things by Peter Watts -- The Thing from the perspective of the alien.

• The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler -- The Rapture of the Nerds from the perspective of a non-nerd.

What happens when the immovable object of terrorism meets the unstoppable force of kiddie porn?

These fusion peacock earrings in enamel and diamonds were a belated gift from Mom, this birthday. And the ruby-diamond bracelet, a wedding present from my cousin. I love jewelry, which looks like a work of art. And this is just that.

current mood: sleepy

Heigh ho! This is artist Jim Shore's inspired take on Disney's beloved creations.

current mood: sick

A very happy new year to all of you. I've been terribly quiet this past year - caught up with life and work.

With 2009 over, it's that time of the year to reflect on what my 2009 has been like. Previous reviews have included:

• 2008 in review
• 2007
• highlights of 2006
• 2005 in retrospect
• reviewed 2004.

In summary, 2009 was (mostly) another good year. Filled with lots of interesting things and events. I spoke at a number of events, including the Girl Geek Dinners, BarCamp Canberra and the Edge of the Web conference. It was sad news about my friend Sharon having a stroke. In other news, 2009 seems to be the year for babies. Lots of friends got pregnant in 2009 or had babies in 2009.

My 2010 resolutions? Live a simpler life, declutter and do good.

Ducks fight the battle of the sexes in their genitals

The male duck's penis is spiral-shaped: like a corkscrew, it twists in a counter-clockwise direction so that sperm will target the oviduct on the female's left-hand side. In almost all birds only the left ovary is functional, but in a 2007 study, Brennan and colleagues noticed that in ducks the female's vagina twists in the opposite direction.

Brennan thinks that, while the males are evolving long and flexible penises to help them force copulations, the females are using their complex vaginal anatomy to take back control over which sperm fertilises their eggs. When a female wants to mate with her chosen partner, she can make the process easier by relaxing the muscles around the vagina entrance.

Brennan's team also timed the male's penis eversion, which took a mere one-third of a second - around 60 times faster than was previously thought (see video above). "This definitely gives the males a mechanism by which they can copulate," says Brennan, who was taken aback by the speed. "To be totally honest, I'm still in shock," she says.

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