TRON's lightcycle scene - in stop-motion animation

French filmmaker Freres-Hueon has recreated the epic lightcycle battle from Tron in fantastic stopmotion form. Using cardboard cutouts to replace the computer graphics, and the entire scene is re-enacted in all it's glory.

Feast your eyes on this gem:

Tron
by freres-hueon

Utterly fantastic. Head on over to http://www.gltron.org/index.php and relive the fun for yourself. There's an IRIX binary available to, to give your SGI workstation a proper workout.

Ling from LINGsCARS on website promotion

I've known about Ling's Cars for a while. Not only is the website pretty awesome, but Ling also has a Zil 131 truck with a fake nuclear warhead strapped to the back. I've been a big fan of Zil and Gaz trucks for ages, so that's how I first came across Ling and her site.

Ling has a fantastic post on her blog at http://www.lingscars.com/blog/?p=2412 where she goes into detail on how she builds awareness of her website. This should be required reading for anyone who's trying to get traffic or raise the profile of their site - it's not all about PPC and Google Adwords.

Well worth a read, and I can highly recommend subscribing to her RSS feed as well.

Home Secretary in ID Card database security gaffe

Home Secretary in ID Card database security gaffe: "

Unhackable? Up to a point, minister

Security experts have rubbished claims by the Home Secretary that databases for the controversial National ID Cards will be 'unhackable' because they are being kept off the public internet.…

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(Via The Register.)

When will the current Government learn the lessons from IT gaffe after gaffe? Jacqui Smith's speech is well worth a read through, just to understand how badly the Home Secretary and the Government are trying to mislead votes over the ID cards scheme.

For an even more complete takedown, read the thorough dissection at the excellent SpyBlog.