After installing the extension you'll see a new sidebar. Connect to any busy open wifi network and click the big "Start Capturing" button. Then wait. As soon as anyone on the network visits an insecure website known to Firesheep, their name and photo will be displayed. Double-click on someone, and you're instantly logged in as them.

Evented I/O for V8 javascript.

"Orbited is an HTTP daemon that is optimized for long-lasting comet connections. It is designed to be easily integrated with new and existing applications."

"java.net.URL class officially sucks! The equals method on this shining example of the JDK API mess actually does a blocking DNS lookup on the host string to resolve to an IP address and then compares the IP addresses rather than the host string."

"POST is your generic catch-all, with no real restrictions on what it can do. It is incredibly powerful, but the principal of least power would suggest that where we can get away with PUT or DELETE, we do so."

"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprieter (sic) of this system is frankly terrified by you people."

"Since multiple web servers were serving the same files on different requests, the inodes did not match, and frequently the document would have to be fetched from scratch."

High performance Russian httpd

HTTP noodling