At a recent computer conference, a colleague of
mine from a conservative academic institution chatted
congenially with another conference attendee. At a typical conference such a conversation would be nothing particularly
revealing, but this was DEFCON, and the young lady he was speaking with had a stainless steel spike tipped with a blinking green LED protruding from her lower lip. While some security researchers have described such conferences as “going to a graffiti convention expecting to see those who design spray cans”, I beg to differ.

I'm surprised that this is only getting memed now. Memestreams has one real academic reference, one recipricol reference, and one viewpoint reference, referenced here.