Beware Google hacking, ‘ventifacts’, intraterrestrials…

• 1 – More Google Hacking Using the “inurl” Operator
  Eeek! GoogleTutor has a post about how easy it is for a skilled searcher to discover the admin entry points for blogs or sites written with a particular CMS, eg Wordpress. Must find some security tips…not that anyone’s going to bother hacking this joint
  (tags: exploit CMS domains discover operator inurl search Google hacking)
• 2 – The Long Tail – Signal vs. Noise
  37Signals conducts a round-table discussion featuring Chris ‘Long Tail’ Anderson and a couple of Yahoo execs.
  (tags: interview marketing music tail long Yahoo culture business economics 37signals)
• 3 – James Hill for Congress
  “As the only Pirate and truly independent candidate I issue a challenge to you my friend. Can you cast aside Party politics to salvage our democracy?” Self-confessed drunken pirate running for Congress in the US. Arrr!
  (tags: campaign Hill James pirate drunken election Congress politics US)
• 4 – The B-flat Range
  BLDGBLOG has a great post that introduces us to ventifacts, or “geologic formations shaped by the forces of wind.” Some real sf-nal landscapes going on there.
  (tags: geology landscape formations rock weather wind formed shaped ventifacts)
• 5 – The Greatest Show In The Galaxy: A Sci-Fi Blog Carnival
  Solar Flare is starting up a SF/F blog carnival, which I’ve often thought would be a great idea, but (unsurprisingly) never got round to doing anything about. I shall be contributing something, methinks.
  (tags: announcement carnival blog genre fantasy sf scifi fiction science Flare Solar)
• 6 – Thin Film Solar To Go Large
  Promising rumblings in the business world for fans of solar power.
  (tags: renewable environment ecology plant power electricity generation energy photovoltaic cells solar film thin)
• 7 – Intraterrestrial ‘aliens’?
  Does our planet harbour as yet undiscovered lifeforms based on silicon instead of carbon? It’s an old (and somewhat cranky) idea, but some respected astronomer dude is writing a book about the possibility of it being true.
  (tags: crust Earth intraterrestrial life based silicon SETI lifeforms alien)