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Martin, over at currybet.com, noticed that Bloglines will reveal feeds for other people’s GMail feed when you go to subscribe to your own. I’m sure you were wondering, just like I was, how he went about finding these:

I was astonished on Friday when I was looking at my Gmail account inbox, and accidently hit the ‘Subscribe with Bloglines’ bookmarklet on my Firefox links toolbar. Bloglines then dutifully put up on the screen a whole series of Atom feeds of other people’s Gmail accounts that I could subscribe too.

I was pretty shocked but then looking at the screenshot made me realize that the people in the list are people who have setup Feedburner to retrieve the feed from GMail. As you can tell from the screenshot above there is not a lot of information shown…unless you actually subscribe to the feed!

After subscribing to a few feeds he noticed that one of them almost revealed someone’s password but it was cutoff by the character limitation:

It isn’t really Google’s fault or Feedburner’s fault because users can choose to password protect a feed if they want, which is obviously something that should be done here. I took it a step further and turned up two results when searching Google for some other people that are doing the same thing. I expected to find more than that though.

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Early this morning, Perfect Third Inc. — makers of the less than perfect WakeMate wristband — issued a recall for the sleep analyzer’s USB charger, which apparently has a tendency to go up in smoke, and we don’t mean disappear. An e-mail sent out by the company’s CEO at 12:30 AM states, “we were informed by a customer of a safety incident with the black USB chargers.” A little vague if you ask us, considering the video we received shows the device “smoking after exploding.” The recall ensures that the WakeMate itself is perfectly safe, and that the Chinese-manufactured USB cables are at fault, but if you ask us, anything that is supposed to help you sleep soundly shouldn’t put you in danger of catching fire.

[Thanks, Ringram and Nick]

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I suppose you can never be too safe when launching people into space. NASA this week announced that it is ordering more repairs to the space shuttle Discovery, after finding even more cracks on the ship’s fuel tank.

The ship’s launch–set to be its last–has been plagued with delays since it was first scheduled since early November, due to weather, electrical problems, and most recently, a number of cracks discovered on its fuel tank. The newly discovered cracks were located on the rear of the tank, discovered with the help of X-rays.

NASA is understandably pretty jumpy about such things–a problem with the fuel tank was determined to be the cause of the 2003 Columbia disaster, which led to the death of seven astronauts.

According to NASA, the launch is still scheduled for February 3rd, but further work could delay the launch yet again.

New image of Olympus E-PL2 leaks, shows off macro spotlight originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kodachrome film is iconic enough that there have now been several ‘goodbye, Kodachrome‘ news stories, and we just couldn’t resist one more. This time, our tale is of Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas (which we’ve had occasion to reference once before), a film processing store which has the distinction of being the final place to accept Kodachrome for development. The problem? The store has been flooded with packages of undeveloped film from all over the world as the window for its processing comes to an end. It turns out that having that distinction will get you hundreds of rolls of film a day, and Dwayne’s Photo said that it would not process any films that arrived after Thursday. Yes, that was yesterday, though the mail is undoubtedly still arriving.

Kodachrome film is seriously at the end of its life — again originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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