WARNING! New G-Mail hack, and simple way to defend yourself

For the G-mail users out there, a new warning has come out regarding a security flaw in G-mail.  According to the article in Hacking Truths,  this can allow hackers to steal your Google ID and access your mail. Fortunately, the solution is very simple and just requires a setting change. 

Log into Gmail account.
Go to Settings (top of the page next to username).
Go to the last entry in the settings page: set it to "Always use https".
Click Save and you're safe. 

Alternately, you can connect to gmail using https://mail.google.com, which will set it to the secure SSL version.

Canon vs. Fanon: an example so accurate it's scary.

Courtesy of Zorm over at Deviantart, we have a look at a figure from a popular fantasy series...used to illustrate the differences in characters as the creator conceive them, and how the fanfikkers see them.   Something is lost in translation, evidently.

It's really a case of "a picture is worth a thousand fanfics".

And check out Zorm's other stuff: she's really very talented.

FOR DANCINGSHAMAN: A GIFT

Well, I won't have a chance to give you hot chocolate, and I've been informed you probably wouldn't like a chocolate martini. So, instead I'll have to give you the Earth.

Or at least a tour of the cities of the earth, at night.

Happy birthday!