A River of Words

Before February, 2009, I will create something like wordle that can be used to build tag clouds out of any given input.

Not so much a game, but it is marginally flash-oriented: Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited offers free issues of select titles every Monday)

The always brilliant author of the `from future import *` blog brings us an article discussing a potential JavaScript Hijacking [pdf] scenario – the simple answer is “Don’t send JSON data as a list, send it as an object instead”. That is, if you wanted to send:

["foo", "bar"]

you can avoid the security hole by sending something like this instead:

{"data": ["foo", "bar"]}

and then stripping the object on the other end.

I know I’ve shared this one before on other blogs, but Powder is a classic that keeps getting better – the code has had several updates since the last time I linked to it on a blog, and it’s exactly the style of “free-form play” that I find so compelling – there’s really no “Story”, no “Objective”...all that is expected of you is to have fun!