And this time, it got enough diggs to make it to the front page! W00t! I am SO psyched about this. It might just get it the extra exposure it REALLY needs to go nova. Digg should provide plenty of eager beta testers, and honestly, the program runs great for where it is in it’s dev cycle.

Anyway, PLEASE DIGG IT!!! PLEASE! We need your support!

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UPDATE: There is another OFF centric story on Digg! Check it out:

Darknets are SO last century. Why not go Brightnet! Why break the law when you don’t have to. Hackers have found a way to share stuff without violating copyright.

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Have you ever had a REALLY pressing technical question? You know, the kind that Ask Metafilter likely would know the answer to but you NEED that answer now, not later? Then may I recomend to you a REALLY neat new Expert to User service called Qunu. Here’s how the service works (in their own words):

It’s an AMAZING service. It has singlehandedly gotten me able to use Linux (btw: I’m using Ubuntu now; posting from it THIS VERY MOMENT!!!). I’m just stunned at all the free, volentary help offered.

The service sets itself apart (in my opinion) by not having some propritary app sitting on the desktop (an app they would ether have to code for everything from Lunix to OS/2 to Windows and beyond, or write in Java). Instead they were smart enough to integrate with the Jabber network (just like our good friends Google)  so that an expert can just have their favorite Jabber friendly client open, and be ready to accept questions. COOL!

Check it out over at www.qunu.com. You won’t regret it.

Oh, and feel free to check this out and Digg it too, on Digg.com!

This is the COOLEST demonstration of how lax security is for many people. It’s a display at DEF CON that updates in real time as people check their email, or log into myspace (as you can see from the bottom of the pic) or what ever. If it’s not secured (I’d assume one way is to make sure you’re logging into an https:// secured site), then it should show up there.

Now tell me: How stupid would you feel appearing on that wall? I’m just supprised. It’s the biggest hacker convention around (or at least the most well known), these are the people who made the shirts that say “I read your email”, and STILL people log in unsecured. I’m just shocked.

If any of you out there ever go to DEF CON, and you have two computers, install Hamachi on both, leave one at home, turned on and connected to the internet, and take the other with you. You can then remote desktop into the one at home through Hamachi, and then surf securely knowing that everything going from you at DEF CON to your home is MASSIVLY encrypted.

For more information on security in general, may I suggest the ever popular podcast Security Now!

Thanks to ZDNet for the original pic, and the story.

And of course, feel free to Digg the Story

Here’s a thought: Digg’s supposed to be a social book marking site, right? You know, with all the mob-minded stuff you can think of. And Del.icio.us is ALSO a social book marking site. My Del.icio.us links are quite many in number, but they don’t come CLOSE to my diggs. Also, digg isn’t NEARLY as good for ordering bookmarks and such. It doesn’t support tagging, to me it’s search feature is clunky, you can’t (as far as I can tell) send an article to a friend like you can with del.icio.us, and a few other small things. Del.icio.us, on the other hand, doesn’t have the community rating of digg, nor does it have the sheer magnitude of patrons that digg does. Two different people, two solutions to the same problem. I propose a unified solution.

Originally, my solution required a large roll of duct tape, a stick of chewing gum (not that Bubble Tape crap, either), and three young ducklings. However, not having two out of three items (hey, every man worth his salt has duct tape, right?), I decided to be more practical. And so I came up with an idea I like to call digg.licio.us. A mash-up in the grandest sense!

I said to myself “Me, how could I best go about getting my diggs del.icio.usified?” Operationally, that is (the programming would be another story; I’m thinking PHP or C#). “Well,” said me “you’d want everything you dugg to be posted to del.icio.us, right? And you’d clearly want it tagged. Also, you’d likely want to mark it as coming from digg. Oh, and you’d wanna bookmark the article itself, as opposed to the digg page (though you’d want to include a link to the digg page in the notes of the del.icio.us bookmark). And one last thing, self: You’re not going to want it to require manual tagging (though it can be an option), so just use del.icio.us’s recommended tags for the link and maybe add the tag ‘dugg’, just to satisfy the ‘mark as from digg’ requirement”. “Whew!” I said to myself, “I’m long winded!”

Of course, I’m sure there are problems with this, but I think on the whole it would be a good system. It would bring people to digg (everyone loves Web 2.0, don’t ‘cha know), it would bring diggers to del.icio.us (I’d have a HECK of a lot more use for it), and it would better index some of the COOLEST information on the internet. Implementation SHOULD be easy. Digg provides a great RSS feed (many in fact, but the important one here is the on for stuff I’ve dugg ), and I’m told that del.icio.us has a VERY easy to use API, so if there’s a program in the middle parsing the XML file from digg and spitting it out in a del.icio.us friendly format, it should work like a charm.

So, who out there is comfortable enough in PHP to make this happen? I’m just getting my PHP legs, and I’m still a bit wobbly.

Here’s a neat little game I found on Digg:

MotherLoad Use your digger to excavate as much ore as possible

Play this free game now!!

It’s a neat little game about digging down to get to the sweet, delicious ore. Mmm… Ore…… Arrgghh…………….

Anyway, here’s a screen capture below. I think you should go check out the game NOW! It’s pretty cool.

You can digg it here. And of course, just go Here to play the game itself!