My Browser is Unique

With Panopticlick, the EFF is pointing out how websites could track you even if you don't have cookies enabled. If JavaScript is enabled, website authors can figure out things like your set of plugins and fonts. But when I visited with NoScript enabled, my browser fingerprint was unique among the first 425,722 seen. I guess of the 35 visitors running Firefox 3.6 on MacOS X 10.6, I'm the only one with JavaScript disabled. Heck, I even had one collision using lynx!

Unlike super market loyalty cards, it's a lot harder to trade web browsers with a stranger to throw the trackers for a loop.

What meets Where

I've added the Google Maps Module, so now you can view my photo gallery geographically. You can use the map to find clusters of photos I've taken since I got my GPS device early last year, plus some album coordinates I set by hand. The "View Album on a Map" link is available even on albums without any geography information. My server is not very fast, so the user experience isn't as snappy as browsing my geotagged photos on Picasa, but I've got more pictures on my main gallery.

Photos and maps, two of my favorite things to stare at!