Making yesterday seem like tomorrow since 2001.

Something occurred to me today when I decided to post a comment on someone’s blog.

The person in question was using Blogger to publish their weblog, and subsequently, they were also using Blogger’s bespoke commenting system to accept contributions from users.

Three options are available to the user when posting to a Blogger comment; ‘anonymous’, ‘other’ or ‘login using your Blogger username and ID’.

The ‘anonymous’ option doesn’t need explained. The ‘other’ option allows users to input a name and a website address, which is subsequently published along with their comment.

However, it’s the ‘Blogger ID’ option that should give people the biggest cause for concern, because there is absolutely nothing to stop a malicious individual from setting up a fake Blogger-type blog, using similar code and graphics to the Blogger commments system, then harvesting the usernames and passwords of people who innocently post a comment using their Blogger username and ID.

It’s something to think about the next time you decide to post a comment on a Blogger blog using your Blogger ID.

Of course, here at The Copydesk (a Blogger blog), we have our own comments system, which doesn’t rely on Blogger’s comment system at all.

The Kubrick Site is a non-profit resource archive for documentary materials regarding the work of the late American film director and producer Stanley Kubrick.

The Simpsons made it to the top of Channel Four’s Top 100 Greatest Kids’ TV Shows poll. Again, another unsurprising winner (Homer Simpson won the Top 100 TV Characters poll, and The Simpsons also won the Top 100 Cartoons poll).

In his latest book, Everything Bad Goes Public, Steven Berlin Johnson claims that watching television doesn’t make you dumb; on the contrary, it makes you smarter.

He’s clearly never watched River City.

DHTML Lemmings? – just about exactly as it was when it first came out.

Found on Gadgetopia.

The V for Vendetta website is up and running, featuring several short press conference clips and some photos from the set of the forthcoming Joel Silver/Wachowski Bros movie based on Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s classic comic-book series.

Radiohead’s OK Computer made it to number one in Channel Four’s 100 Greatest Albums list tonight.

It’s unquestionably a great album, but, as ever, Channel Four’s poll reflects recent trends and parochial tastes (half of the top 10 spots are represented by British acts), and not an ‘all-time’ feeling. Sales didn’t seem to have been taken into consideration either.

However, it’s significant to note that The Beatles’ Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band made it to number 10 and number 7, respectively (with the exception of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and these two, every other album in the top 10 was made after 1982) – but there’s a good smattering of the usual suspects in the top 20; Thriller, A Night at The Opera, The Joshua Tree, Led Zeppelin IV, to name but a few.

Despite this, I was surprised to see The Police’s Synchronicity so far down the list at number 65, faring only slightly better than Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express, at number 71.

In all, there’s barely a bad album in the 100 – with the exception of The Smiths’ grossly overrated The Queen is Dead, of course.

Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor) looks just about one of the best horror movies since Evil Dead.

Google Video Upload finally launches.