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Well, obviously not that stupid if they made millions of dollars. Here’s a great article from Dmitri Davydov about 10 Million Dollar Ideas That Shouldn’t Have Worked.

10. Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot of people, it turns out. Now producing 30,000 wishbones daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million.

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Dmitry writes a pretty good blog called Unusual Business Ideas That Work that is definitely worth checking out. How about selling video game rosters?

Tags: Business, Unusual Ideas

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It’s time for video Friday. Don’t worry - I’ll give you an excuse not to work. This week…

Some of the Best Adverts Ever

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I’ve been using delicious for quite some time now (probably almost a couple years) and have been tagging my brains out.  Since I signed up, I’ve been using a little system I’ve put together that uses my RSS reader, and delicious.  I subscribe to just about every gallery (CSS mostly) site I can find and read through all the new entries everyday. Then if I really like one, I’ll go there and tag it using delicious.

Today I have finally tagged my 300th site under ‘webdesign’.  That is amazing.  I’ve personally handpicked 300 amazing sites on the web.  The first one dates back to December 5th, 2005.

If your looking for some inspiration or just want to see some of what I like, go check them out for yourself here.

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Over the weekend an error (I won’t go into details of Apache/PHP mods) on a Facebook server rendered the PHP code as a text file instead of processing it. This means that the code was served up to the user.

A blog called Facebook Secrets has made the code for the Facebook homepage available.

Now, does this leak mean hackers have access and your data is not safe? No. But it does give insight to the folder structure which is the first step for a hacker.

One blogger has already received a Cease & Desist forcing him to take down the code. Facebook Secrets has not (or has not let us know).

Regardless seems like a pretty newb move for a site as large as Facebook. An intern definitely got fired for this.

via Compiler

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From eWeek’s coverage…

While mobs were rioting in the streets of capital city Tallinn, Russian-language Web sites featuring blogs and forums—what I like to refer to as the Russian-speaking blogosphere—came alive with angry messages, followed by instructions on how readers could attack Estonian computers and network infrastructure on their own. The Estonians coined the term “cyber-riot,” and it fits. From this point on, many different kinds of attacks with varying intensity occurred.

eWeek - Estonian Cyber-War Highlights Civilian Vulnerabilities

Estonia, surprisingly, is much more technologically advanced than the United States. In the last election all the citizens voted from home, online. Their entire infrastructure - from banking to governemt - is all online so when something like this happens it threatens the core of their society.

Luckily (if you can call it lucky) the targets were civilian - mostly ISPs, banks, and the press. The Estonian CERN was able to collaboratively address the attacks and stop the intrusions.

Some are calling it the first Internet War. Had the “cyber-riot” attacked military infrastructures I would have agreed. In any case for us in the U.S. this event provides a nice look into the future of cyber terrorism and cyber warfare.

Is the U.S infrastructure capable of withstanding cyber-rioting, cyber-terrorism, or even cyber-warfare (I can’t help but look up at my War Games poster on the wall in my office)? According to the former National Security Boss - No, we are not…

From Clarke’s keynote speech at Black Hat Security Conference…

The work needed to create an Internet infrastructure that could support a more secure, more rationalized cyberspace has unfortunately been starved of funding by a Congress, an administration and a society that just “doesn’t get it,” Clarke said.

“The Bush administration has systematically reduced the work necessary to secure cyberspace,” he said. The administration has reduced funding for research and development, at DARPA and elsewhere, for example, he said.

“Bush’s own advisory committee said we were dangerously reducing funding” on securing cyberspace, he said. “Still, he went ahead, and it was reduced.”

eWeek - Bush Admin Leaves Holes in Cyberspace

It’s not quite SkyNet but it’s still a tad scary…

Tags: Internet War, Cyber-Terrorism, Security, War Games

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