Category: General

I didn’t know about this till yesterday, when I was browsing around the firefox add-ons…  Apparently the Flash player stores things called Locally Shared Objects on your computer, and they can be used for cookie-like purposes — persistent state, and of course identification and tracking.

So if you think you keep your cookies clean but you use Flash, you’re wrong.

I installed the BetterPrivacy extension, and was amazed at the number of LSO’s sitting on my computer, in the flash preferences folder.  Blew ’em away.

What will those crazy corporations think of next?

Release notes here.  Raisins is way cooler and more powerful than the last stable release.  The OS X version is based on Cocoa libraries, not Carbon, which gives it much stability and much less buggy weirdness.

Via MetaFilter, Webmonkey shows you that certain Youtube videos are available at not just high resolution but INSANE resolution (1280×720).  Sweet gravy.

I haven’t actually found any yet, besides the example they gave, the where the hell is matt video.  But that one is pretty sweet in 1280×720!

Thanks, America.

That was amazing.

OK that was really wrong.

But since I was on an Electric Six groove today anyway, I thought I’d throw it in…