] A practical joker has stirred up trouble by publishing a
] Japanese-to-English phrase book with incorrect
] definitions for every phrase!
]
] Now thousands of Japanese tourists who've painstakingly
] studied the bogus dictionary in preparation for trips to
] America are arriving on our shores only to encounter
] blank stares, hysterical laughter or even brutal beatings
] as soon as they open their mouths.
]
] "The man who compiled this dictionary clearly went out of
] his way to wreak havoc," says New York hotel concierge
] Jacqueline Porseman, who arranges tours for many VIP
] guests from Japan.
]
] "For instance, when the Japanese think they're asking
] 'Can you direct me to the rest room?' the book actually
] has them saying, 'Excuse me, may I caress your buttocks?'

Yahoo! Top Stories - Bogus Dictionary Lands Tourists In Trouble!

] Kennesaw (AP) -- A high school student suspended for
] hacking into the school's computer system says he
] stumbled across private student information using only a
] password given to all students who use school computers.
]
]Pike's parents argue he merely uncovered a security flaw in the ]school system's computer network.

ah, local news covering technology-xor.

11Alive,ATLANTA,News, Student Suspended for Hacking Computers

I didn't even bother putting a quote in here, because there are too many.

Steve Job gets it. He understands the risks, and has a good grasp on the reality of how music and technology affect each other, and of the business issues at hand.

Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview

the geneva laser is on right now and the Rio and New York ones open in an hour (it's 3:20 pm est)...

SMS the world, or use the link to send one online.

The Hello World Project 2/3

] From the Jesus Fairy Christmas tree topper to the Lord of
] the Kings jigsaw puzzle...

must have Jesus ashtray...

Ship of Fools: the Magazine of Christian Unrest

Did MSBlast cause the Aug. 14 blackout? The official analysis says "no," but Bruce Schneier is not so sure.

Internet worms and critical infrastructure | CNET News.com

Decius wrote:
] ] And thus was born the Google Bomb.
]
] Explanation for recent funny google searches like "miserable
] failure." The "angry mob" threat model continues to find new
] applications.

MemeStreams is a mini Google bomb for the people. Take your MemeStream title for instance.. Because if the way our pages interlink, if you are one of the people on this system who has used it actively for a long time and is highly recommended (yes, it matters, alot), you can pretty much pick your Google key words.. Just don't shoot for the moon. There is only so much one site can do, hence why the Bush "miserable failure" thing required a bunch of bloggers posting in concert to pull off.

[ Glances over at http://www.memestreams.net/people/ ]

Assume the stuff in ""'s is a Google Search.. And keep in mind, the results may have changed.. In general, everything I put in ""'s was a first result returned, or otherwise noted. Here we go:

Elonka has her "Subcultures R Us", lets hope the nation of 'R Us' dosen't mind.. :)

Google is so in tune with Jeremy I can ask it "What questions are you asking about Raymond?", and its going to pick up on the fact he has been preoccupied with some humorous who loves raymond meme.. Yes, I know in order for that to make sense it should be "What questions are they asking you about Raymond?".. But the first hit for that is ESR telling me the right way to ask a question. Ironic. All this confusion about questions being asked and who is asking them. It seems like such a small Internet sometimes.

flynn23 could ask Google some questions he already knows the answer to like "If I had a weblog, what would I call it?"

With the right set of words, you do not need to be around long to get some action out of Google. "Gremlin Garbage", "Leprechauns and Star Tattoos" can be found in Google land..

Jessica the "Paranoid Defense Worker" isn't showing up yet, because she just changed her MemeStream title. The reason why is ironically connected. The previous one was showing up for "General Dynamics web site access policy".

"Get back to work" is shooting for the moon in this economy.. Almost 100k results to rank. However if you use Laughing Boy's complete title and ask "get back to work slacker", it shoots to the top..

How is this for weird? crankymessiah was either "resurrected on the wrong side of the bed" or Google has a built in sense of humor, because for some reason that query is bringing up the RSS feed..

"Nanochick" dosen't need shit. She dosen't need a title. She is "Nanockick". Look at her, kicking that memestreams.net email address. Aww yea.

Who "Deletes spam"? Who "Sips the tea substitute" and "watches the grey light become more like day"?? Cayce the Coolhunter in William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition? No! More irony. As far as Google is concerned.. Its Decius.

And me? I'm the one researching all this.. Whenever I'm at Google, and I want to search for something I know I've meme'd before, I don't use "site:...", I just go "sudo bash" and use MemeStreams. Heh.. Solaris/Linux people will find that amusing. OSX people will think I'm talking shit on Google. Everyone else can just know there is a joke they are not in on. :)

RE: Google Time Bomb - Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine? - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog

] Why? It's an evolutionary mystery. The ability to regrow
] legs and eyes seems like a clear Darwinian advantage -
] one that surviving generations would have retained. But a
] paradox of regeneration is that the higher you move up
] the evolutionary chain, the less likely you'll have the
] ability to regrow limbs or organs. Keating's mission:
] figure out the cause of this paradox - and reverse it.

Regrow Your Own Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here.

Decius wrote:
] ] Host Identity Protocol [3] (HIP) defines a mechanism that
] ] decouples the transport layer from the internetworking
] ] layer, and introduces a new Host Identity namespace. When
] ] a host uses HIP, the transport layer sockets and IPsec
] ] Security Associations are not bound to IP addresses but
] ] to Host Identifiers. This document specifies how the
] ] mapping from Host Identifiers to IP addresses can be
] ] extended from a static one-to-one mapping into a dynamic
] ] one-to-many mapping. This enables end-host mobility and
] ] multi-homing.
]
]
] Abaddon and I spent some time last summer working on a protocl
] called Adaptive Addressing Protocol (AAP). It was an attempt
] to make Mobile IP less silly by allowing hosts to change their
] IP addresses without dropping connections. It did so by
] associating connections with a unique identifier, secured by a
] Diffie Hellman key exchange. Last night, Jeremy points me at
] this. This is APP, basically. Its amazing how close our
] designs are. Its also *really* frustrating. We were going to
] have a working demo this weekend for Phreaknic.
]
] I'm going to read through this stuff and see if there are any
] design decisions that we made that might be of value to this
] working group. Having said that, its worth memeing this
] documentation. This is the right answer for mobile IP
] and it will probably be the answer we end up with for
] multihoming of small networks because deploying something like
] this is less expensive then renumbering the internet
] geographically.

I've had this idea before as well. Yay!

RE: Host Identity Protocol

This webpage will redirect you to a Google image search using a random search term based on the filename scheme used by many popular digital cameras. What results is the most random, random sampling of pictures.

The Google random picture generator