escaloop allows you to build a list of up to 20 RSS feeds — feeds like your latest del.icio.us bookmarks, your recent Twitter activity, your new blog posts, your newly uploaded Flickr images, just to name a few — which it will then sort, clean up and tastefully arrange in a concise, neat and pretty list on your own site.

By the way: escaloop is not considered “beta”, but things might still break, what with it being a personal side project. Enjoy!

Supported services:

• del.icio.us
• Flickr
• Google
• Google Reader
• LastFM
• Livejournal
• Magnolia
• Pownce
• StumbleUpon
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Vox

There are no user accounts. When you first set up your escaloop badge, you’ll get a so-called “escaloop ID”, which can be used to change or adjust your badge’s configuration later on.

Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered two vulnerabilities in Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks or potentially compromise a user’s system.

1) An error when downloading e.g. a .ZIP file with an overly long filename can be exploited to cause a memory corruption.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error in the handling of windows can be exploited to display arbitrary content while showing the URL of a trusted web site in the address bar.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 3.1 for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:

Do not browse untrusted web sites.

Source: Secunia

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Traveling to the stars has never been easier

To help you explore the far reaches of our universe, Google have teamed up with astronomers at some of the largest observatories in the world to bring you a new view of the sky. Using Google Maps this tool provides an exciting way to browse and explore the universe. You can find the positions of the planets and constellations on the sky and even watching the birth of distant galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Google are particularly excited about the ability to view the universe at different wavelengths, to see how it would look if our eyes worked in the x-rays or infra-red. As you explore these new layers, play with the transparency to blend between the different wavelengths and see how different parts of the universe light up at different wavelengths.

If you are interested in what’s happening on the sky tonight or over the next few months then check out the pod casts from Earth and Sky or search for the position of your favourite planet.

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The picotux 100 is the world’s smallest Linux computer, only slightly larger (35mm×19mm×19mm) than an RJ45 connector. Inside, there is an ARM7 CPU at 55 MHz running uClinux kernel 2.4.27 and Busybox 1.0.

Two communication interfaces are provided, 10/100 Mbit half/full duplex Ethernet and a serial port with up to 230.400 baud. Five additional lines can be used for either general input/output or serial handshaking.