Gawker Password Stats -- The Sad Reality

I stumbled upon a list of passwords that apparently belong(ed) to Gawker Media. For a fairly long time I assumed that people finally understood that passwords are worth something only if they're strong, say, if they contain a wide range of alphanumeric characters. The sad reality is that my assumption was very, very wrong. The list of 250 passwords contain disappointing passwords, such as '123456' or 'password'.



If anyone wants to play a bit more with the spreadsheet containing the top 250 passwords, here it is: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AiRzD6SQ2VmHdDRObkZCNjVIemFfYXRqYkxOWkRaNmc&hl=en&authkey=CI6RvNcF

Speech recognition on Blogger

SSoo. Ever wanted to have your own Google Search in your blog? Yeah yeah. Lame. How about adding ... dunno, like speech recognition to the input field?

The code is:

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input name="q" type="text" x-webkit-speech="" speech="">
</form>


And if you want to play with it, here it is. Click on the mike then recite Macbeth:

It works only on Chrome though. So you can download from here if you didn't already.