Google’s SPDY is a web protocol designed as an improvement over HTTP.

Website optimization company Strangeloop has built SPDY into its flagship product Site Optimizer, software that sits in between a website and its users, and adjusts the site’s code to make pages load more quickly.

Mainstream adoption may prove difficult for Google; the protocol requires changes to both browsers and server software. Currently, the only browser to support SPDY is Google Chrome.

In a message posted on its corporate blog earlier this morning, blogging software maker Six Apart essentially admitted that security holes in its Movable Type product(s) are to be blamed for the recent, prominent hacking and defacement of the PBS.org website, which occurred at the end of last month.

This reminds me of a post on Daring Fireball:

I don’t religiously keep my installation of Movable Type up to date, and I know many other MT users don’t either, and yet our sites don’t get hacked. I’m not arguing that Movable Type is perfect. Clearly, it is not. No software is. I’m just saying the situation with WordPress is different, and clearly more dangerous, than it is on other platforms.

“Clearly more dangerous?” Obviously.

Apparently, Adium themes can be used in the Empathy IM client. This means that you can use my mpsimple theme in Empathy if you so desire. I tried it myself and the it appears to work just fine.

A BASIC-programmable computer, recently released on DSiWare in Japan. Completely pointless, but I would buy it in a heartbeat.

WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.

Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.

Weather nerds will go nuts over this.

GreenGoose is a real-world game platform with wireless sensors that automatically measure things you actually do!

This may actually work, because the exercise sensor is the size of a credit card and the other ones are simple stickers that have year-long batteries built-in. Not having to do anything extra after the initial setup is absolutely key.