By Cory Doctorow at 8:50 pm Tuesday, Feb 20
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Hey, if anyone out there is looking to drop half a gee on me, here's some kick ass Haunted Mansion shwag for sale on eBay.
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By Cory Doctorow at 5:09 pm Tuesday, Feb 20
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Dyslexic, trash-talking hacker homepage.
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By Mark Frauenfelder at 1:33 pm Tuesday, Feb 20
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Get your rolls of anti-United Nations toilet paper here.
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By Mark Frauenfelder at 1:27 pm Tuesday, Feb 20
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Really cool watercolor paintings of simple Lego sculptures.
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By Cory Doctorow at 12:23 pm Tuesday, Feb 20
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The latest iteration of the "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" story:
Uploading User: What Happen?
Napster Client: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Downloading User: We Get Signal.
Uploading User: What !
Downloading User: Main screen turn on.
Uploading User: It's You !!
RIAA: How are you gentlemen !!
RIAA: All your base are belong to us.
RIAA: You are on the way to destruction.
Uploading User: What you say !!
RIAA: You have no chance to survive make your time.
RIAA: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
Napster Client: Uploading User !
Uploading User: Take off every 'Zig' !!
Uploading User: You know what you doing
Uploading User: Move 'Zig'.
Uploading User: For great justice.
By Mark Frauenfelder at 11:18 am Tuesday, Feb 20
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Salon has an article about the portrayal of women in the comic books of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez.
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And here's a Salon interview with los bros. Hernandez. Link
And here's Salon's little gallery of Hernandez art. Link
By Mark Frauenfelder at 10:57 am Tuesday, Feb 20
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NY Times story on potentially unbreakable crypto: "with Dr. Rabin's system, the message stays secret forever because the code uses a stream of random numbers that are plugged into the key for encoding and decoding. The numbers are never stored in a computer's memory, so they essentially vanish as the message is being encrypted and decrypted. 'If someone walks into my office with a court order or if they put a gun to my head they still could not read my conversations,' Dr. Lipton said."
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