I logged into Facebook this morning and was greeted with a series of questions to update my security information so that in the event I can’t login using my main email address I can use some alternate method to change my password. One of the options was to provide an answer to one of four questions:

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So, yesterday I blogged about the impact of a recent WikiLeaks on the people who had their information leaked. While surfing the ’net yesterday evening, I came across another WikiLeaks release that’s causing a fair bit of stress in some northern countries and another that probably means Julian Assange is going to find industrial amounts of coal in his stocking this year.

Will the insanity never end????

Ok, so in the past WikiLeaks has released Afghanistan war files, 9/11 pager messages, emails sent by researchers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, Sarah Palin’s email, the Guantanamo Bay operating procedures and, of course, thousands of US diplomatic cables. This has caused much fuss but people eventually moved on.

But their most recent leak is crossing the line, even for them, and causing a huge backlash among the people who had their secrets leaked: (more…)

I couldn’t pass up sharing this xkcd…

I’ve seen a couple of commercials for the Duracell MyGrid, a charging mat for cell phones and other gadgets. Every commercial ends with a URL (duracell.ca/mygrid) that will, presumably, take you to the product page on the Duracell Canada website. Faithfully typing the address into my browser, I was rewarded with a 404 error.
Hopefully Duracell will sort this out soon because I wanted to check it out and give a bit of a review of it. (Also, it really defeats the whole point of advertising a URL in an ad.)

Update: As commenter Ken pointed out, www.duracell.ca/mygrid does take you to the product page, but it still doesn’t change the fact that the advertised URL is broken.

The Gatineau Park News blog mentioned that the Gatineau Park Protection Committee released the following “press release” (of which I’m only quoting the English version after the jump) concerning their “review” of the full version of the Gatineau Park Ecosystem Conservation Plan document, which they “leaked” on their website:

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Mountain Equipment Co-op’s French blogue has a piece that talks about the climbing restrictions that are going to be the result of the Gatineau Park Ecosystem Conservation Plan (GPECP) that I’ve written about recently. People are encouraged to sign the climber petition and join the Ottawa-Gatineau Climbers’ Access Coalition.

Also, people should come out to the meeting being hosted by the Coalition at the MEC store in Westboro this Monday at 7:15pm.

A tip o’ the hat to Gatineau Park News for blogging about the MEC blogue article.