I came to know World of Goo in a interesting article by Jeff Atwood about software piracy, where he says that games like these don’t deserve to be pirated, and he’s right.

I’m not much of a gamer, but this game is simple yet very addictive. I’m writing about it because it’s not just another game released by a large game company that builds games in nearly cold mechanical way. World of Goo is a game that the first time you play it, you can tell that it was made with love, every single detail of it.

The game was developed by a two-man team (2D-Boy an indie game studio), and it’s the most original game made in the past few years and it has excellent graphic details with that cartoonish feeling.

World of Goo is available for Mac, Windows and soon will be available for Linux too, and it’s worth every dollar out of the twenty that it costs. If you wish to try the demo click here for the Mac version or here for the Windows version.

Link: www.worldofgoo.com

This is my new toy. The tradition of buying Apple stuff on christmas (I want to thank my girl for this gift) is still alive around here.

I got it because I was looking for something like a PDA with wifi to help me organize, browse the web, check for mail and have some fun when I’m in boring places or situations. I’ve check lots of them, and the only one that seemed to please me, was either the iPhone, or the iPod Touch.

The iPhone here in Portugal is still something very similar to a robbery, so I just went for the iPod.

I couldn’t be more satisfied with it. It does everything I need, and does it well. The web browsing experience is the best that you can get in a mobile device. The tons, I mean literally tons of apps available trough the app store just a click away are fabulous. Some are free (until now I’ve only installed free apps) but the paid ones are a bargain like 1 or 2 euros. And well, the bonus for having a macbook is the cherry on top of the cake. This way I can sync all my iCal and Mail.app stuff with the iPod, among other things. I can even ssh or VNC to servers at work. And also check Twitter :)

I’ve been playing with it in the last few days and I can’t go without it anymore, and yes, the iPod is the one to blame for the lack of posts on this blog.

More photos available here.

I found this cartoon when I was reading an interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Blink (which I’m currently reading and highly recommend it). Even if you, the reader, like boys band, you have to admit that it’s funny, and somewhat close to the truth :D

Cartoon taken from here

The Cloud Player is an opensource web application that enables the concept of having your music in The Cloud. It uses the Sound Cloud API.

I’ve been using it this week, and found some very interesting songs, and the ability to play endless hours of different music.

Check it out here, and the source here!

This video is absolutely hilarious, it’s a very interesting critic to Apple and Steve Jobs. I see it has purely entertaining and hope that Steve “Mobs” has not invested all Apple’s money on Microsoft :P

For those reading in feeds, here’s the link to the video.

Update: Well, it seems that the video has been removed for the second time due to copyright claim by 20th Century Fox, which I think it’s very sad. It was only a lousy 3 minutes video, what could that hurt? Whatever…

Like I promised when I wrote about this summit, here are the videos of the presentations about the most common and some recently new web vulnerabilities.

Videos list:

• Introduction to OWASP, by Jeff Williams
• OWASP Top Ten, by Jeff Williams
• OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI), by Jeff Williams
• LDAP, XML and SQL Injection, by Marcos Slaviero
• LDAP injection demo, by Marcos Slaviero
• XML injection demo, by Marcos Slaviero
• SQL injection demo, by Marcos Slaviero
• Clickjacking, by Arshan Dabirsiaghi
• Clickjacking demo, by Arshan Dabirsiaghi
• Phishing demo, by Matt Tesauro and Brad Causey
• Training sessions overview, by Mano Paul

Source: blog.carlosserrao.net