On the way from lunch today, I saw an amusing thing painted on one of CMU's traditions, the fence. From what I understand, anyone who spends the night on the cut (grassy area in middle of campus) may paint the fence that evening and it shall remain unperturbed for at least the next day, possibly longer. There was a quip-- "CMU, where the odds are good, but the goods are odd" I got a good chuckle looking that up on google, as there are plenty of places using that title for various things.

I'm speccing out a new system for work, and am amazed at what one can buy for a bit of money. For $3000, at Penguin Computing, it's possible to get a Dual-AMD64 system w/ 2G RAM, SCSI, a DVD and a nice warranty, all in a 1U enclosure. Altus 1200 is the particular.. Very nice.

The script kiddies are rejoicing -- some virus author decided to release the source to their work, and now every blackhat bozo with a compiler will have their own flavour of that virus. This is not good.. but actually not uncommon. The bulletin board scene often had similar hush-hush information being passed around in hidden channels. Back in those days, though, script kiddies wern't quite as clueless -- computer literacy was necessary to use a computer, and people were frequently starting up windows 3.1 to run a program, and then dropping back out to do DOS programs. I miss those times..

This is very funny stealth advertising. A company called Veracity manages it. Be careful though -- if you visit, javascript might disable your bookmarks toolbar. Incidentally, I HATE it when sites do that. There is never a good reason to take someone's toolbars away, and I wish they had never exposed an interface to do that to Javascript. Argh.

Here is the latest addition to my frequently-visited news sites. Bizarre Oz Interpretation? I am curious if/how these folk are related to Google. Michael Moore apparently does not mind when people download his film Fahrenheit 9/11. He says he feels "information, art, and ideas shall be shared". I respect him for that. Here's a fun jab at bloggers.. Here's a fun self-jab by a webcomicist.