Bill Henson’s photos of people at the opera, including a short interview with the photographer.
What I was interested in terms of Paris Opera series was that whole strange business of finding oneself with a whole lot of other people gathered in a darkened space, such as the opera, awaiting some special event. There is something quite magical about it. I’ve always found that people sitting in the dark just waiting for something is the most haunting sort of experience. It seemed to me it was a common experience, a universal thing that everyone feels, really, at some point or another.
More of Henson’s opera photos here. (via conscientious) (link)
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Source: kottke.org
The Hackers’ Nightmare is here!
Bill Henson’s photos of people at the opera, including a short interview with the photographer.
What I was interested in terms of Paris Opera series was that whole strange business of finding oneself with a whole lot of other people gathered in a darkened space, such as the opera, awaiting some special event. There is something quite magical about it. I’ve always found that people sitting in the dark just waiting for something is the most haunting sort of experience. It seemed to me it was a common experience, a universal thing that everyone feels, really, at some point or another.
More of Henson’s opera photos here. (via conscientious) (link)
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Source: kottke.org
DigiFi’s new Digital Opera headphones use the high-efficiency, high-quality Kleer wireless tech to get your tunes from your iPod to your ears. We’re also digging the neat over-ear design with curly cable, which looks like it’ll be good non-tangler, and the fact that up to four people can listen to the same feed, as long as they have the earphones too. They have over 10 hours play time, and have “CD-quality” audio, or so say DigiFi. We’re not sure about the “iPod adapter” part though, since it looks a lot like there’s just a headphone jack there but no iPod socket, doesn’t it? Hey ho. It’ll be available worldwide, starting in Korea from now, for about $98. [Aving]
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Source: Gizmodo
Opera has released Beta 2 of the 9.5 version of their web browser, and we’ve taken a quick tour to see what’s in store. First impressions? It’s faaaaaast.Read More…
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Source: Ars Technica
SpaceWesterns.com is an online fiction magazine filled with stories that blend themes from western fiction with science fiction, including long-running serials. There’s some really lovely stuff here — the genres mesh surprisingly well at times. They’ve just reprinted my 1998 story Craphound, the first professional sale I ever made, which is about an alien with a yard-sale jones who discovers that he really, really likes old time cowboy toys. Link See also: Space Western limerick contest-winners…
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Source: Boing Boing
- - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-14 - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 14, 2008 Bugs: #216022 ID: 200804-14 - - Synopsis Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Opera, allowing for execution of arbitrary code. …
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Source: Full Disclosure
Unspecified vulnerability in Opera for Windows before 9.27 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to “keyboard handling of password inputs.”
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Source: National Vulnerability Database
Opera before 9.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted scaled image pattern in an HTML CANVAS element, which triggers a memory corruption.
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Source: National Vulnerability Database
Opera before 9.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted newsfeed source, which triggers an invalid memory access.
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Source: National Vulnerability Database
Opera Web Browser 9.26 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
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Source: Security Focus