Not Quite a Blog

“Holy shit! Did we just elect Barack Obama President of the United States? I've got to be honest America, I didn't think you had it in you. That is a seven million vote T.K.O. You were not playing around, cause you just put a black man, with a brown name in the White House.” --David Alan Grier on Chocolate News 5 November 2008.

A group of wild and crazy guys -- Eric Rescorla, Stefan Savage, Hovav Schacham and Terence Spies -- spotted a legal notice in a paper towel dispenser at UC Santa Barbara.

It said:

"This dispenser is subject to restrictions on sale, modification, filling and use, and may be used only to dispense the trademark-bearing products identified on its exterior. Georgia-Pacific Corporation strictly prohibits unauthorized sale, modification, filling or use of this dispenser, and will enforce its rights under United States and foreign laws."

For their CRYPTO rump session, they created a hilarious Lessig-esque presentation centered around DRM (dryness rights management).

You'll get a chuckle out of their slides here:

(Via ekr, "Paper Cryptography".)

It's official, the final cylon is John Frakkin' McCain!

We're such fatasses we're starting to need heavy duty gurneys!

...from the current New Yorker where he discusses his affinity for spiders (April & Paris):

There have been other Tegenaria since then, a new population every summer, and though I still feed them and monitor their comings and goings, it’s with a growing but not unpleasant distance, an understanding that spiders, unlike mammals, do only what they’re supposed to do. Whatever drives the likes of April is private and severe, and my attempts to humanize it only moved me further from its majesty. I still can’t resist the fly catching, but in terms of naming and relocating I’ve backed off considerably, though Hugh would say not enough.

David Sedaris, Reflections, "April & Paris," The New Yorker, March 24, 2008, p. 38

Yuri has found the bestest password evar: -:-|lI.!