This slashdot article, based on a forum post in the skype forums reveals, that Skype obviously reads the “/etc/passwd” file and Firefox’ profiles and Addons. The “/etc/passwd” file saves usernames and passwords in Linux. Firefox profiles contain saved passwords, bookmarks and cookies. The Skype team has not yet commented this behaviour. Once again we see that closed source software is not the most relieable.

Mei-ing Nieuwland prefers the pseudonym Ming on the net. She is known as ming85@deviantART or ming at the cheesecake studio. With her current age of 21 she, besides being a medical student, involved in the cheesecake studio and working as a freelance illustrator too. At the moment she is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Two of her mangas have been presented here already, Santa Croce 588 and Cafe 1914. She has developed amazing skills in drawing and illustration. I accidentially found her on deviantART and I am pretty happy about that because I enjoy her work so much, especially the mangas/comics. I recommend that you check her website!

Solar, the name of a short-movie, that was created by Ian Wharton & Edward Shires, two students, that just graduated from the Cumbria Institute of Arts. They won the “best-of-show” with their project Solar. The project itself took, according to Ian and Edward seven month to realize. The short-film itself is a great dip into another world that once more shows us the power of digital rendering. For the play time of 4.17 minutes, the Quicktime codec is needed. The making of is available too.

Links:

• Solar website

Simpsons – the movie. A lot of people were counting the days until the 27th of July this year, so they could enjoy the Simpsons movie. I saw it and I was entertained, no doubt. As the tv-series the movie is packed with side blows on social and political issues, but always in a funny and entertaining manner. The movie is very diversified and is everything else but boring. I met a lot of known characters and even the simpsonified version of Green Day is involved. Even if we know the characters pretty well now, the never caring Homer, the Lisa, trying to improve the world and the constantly joking Bart, this movie is unpredictable! So.. go and see it! I will not download this movie! (Or if you do, see it in the cinema too) now go and write that on a chalkboard like Bart does, in the intro

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