Recreation of Louis Slotin's deadly hands-on experiment. Public domain government image, taken from Wikipedia.
They might know the name, but nobody ever says, "I want to be like Louis Slotin when I grow up." And with good reason. Despite being fiercely intelligent, quick thinking and brave, Slotin ... More.
I wonder if giving viral videos an old-timey silent movie treatment will become more popular. As for the actual content of the video, I thought it was sad. I hope the man in the video receives the help he needs to recover and stay well. He may not have been drunk. Maybe he was in insulin shock or s... More.
DARPA is holding a competition to find ten large weather balloons. Winner gets $40,000!
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wi... More.
These gentlemen attempted to rob a Carroll, Iowa home while disguised with, er, Sharpie marker. Police responded to a call and spotted the getaway car driven by Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20. The guy on the right has the Clockwork Orange eye happening and, as Rob says, the man... More.
I got a kick out of this t-shirt design promoting RU Sirius's h+ Magazine. Of course, it can't compare to my Mondo 2000 "How fast are you? How dense?" t-shirt from the early 1990s, but that one seems to have, er, mysteriously shrunk. h+ Magazine t-shirt... More.
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That logo looks a bit too much like a penis.
So what kind of alcohol do I have to drink today?
I'm sorry, but I have to say that I initially wrongly recognized the right part of the image extract on this article.
It is sort of a corollary of rule #34, I suppose, in that innuendo can be seen anywhere.
no seriously, that's totally a dick.
"I came for SA Day, but I stayed for the UFIA"
That wang has a thumb
Maybe the thumb is just checking for lumps...
YAY KEN
Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAA penis.
And kudos to all who keep Boing Boing up and running every day. If you think about it other sites occasionally get Slashdotted or Boing Boinged but Boing Boing gets Boing Boinged every day. Yeah. Take another toke and think about that one.
Our whole floor got free pizza for lunch for this "sort of" holiday.
I honestly can't believe our Manager would even know about it.
Perhaps he secretly reads Boing Boing?!
Well, I'm a Sysadmin and I'm still waiting for ANYONE in my company to acknowledge the day...
YAY KEN! THANKS CHRIS! W00T!!!!
Thank You Wolfwitch, your services are appreciated.
YAY Ken! YAY Sysadmins whose names I don't know (bad me) at my company!
Our group celebrated by eating lunch at Big Mama's House of Soul. Seriously tasty pulled pork sammiches!
http://bigmamashouseofsoul.com/
I hear you Wolfwitch, I shamelessly sent out an email to all of the staff today telling them to thank my assistant, but deep down I think I might have been fishing for compliments of my own :)
Does anyone knows if I can send a card to Terry Childs, the sysadmin who locked SF's Network?
Thanks!
http://csoonline.com/article/437873/IT_Admin_Locks_up_San_Francisco_s_Network
:P
Today I will gut a small furry mammal on the IT altar in the basement in your honour!
sent to my kids this afternoon:
To the folks who sent us the pizzas in celebration of Sysadmin Day: We'd like to say thank you. You’ve made our day. We were so delighted we created a special OU just for you guys and you don't need to read any further.
To the other 463 of you who didn’t send us jack we’d just like you to know that coincidentally it’s also Mandatory Change Password Day. Yeah, don’t bother looking it up, it’s a new holiday and probably not recognized by any other organizations because we just came up with it. Please pick a new password when you log on today. Make it a strong one. FYI, we recently (this morning) changed the security requirements on the domain so picking a weak one will be impossible. You’re no longer able to use letters in your passwords, only standard non-alpha-numerics and punctuation from the Romanian ascii symbol set. Minimum password length is 28 characters. Yeah I know, that’s a real pain but look at it this way, under the new security requirements you’ll only have to change it once a week. You know, as I type this I just got a notice on my calendar saying today is also Random Data Storage Power Interruption Day. So after you change your password you should probably start backing up your critical data. Oh, and just to save you some hassle, one of the new security requirements (implemented this morning) is disabling usb so don’t bother trying to backup to usb drive. You still have free reign over the floppy drive though and we have a couple boxes of disks down here if anyone needs them.
Yep, July 25th, every year, Sysadmin Day. Might want to write that down somewhere.
Weird, I just got off the phone with TSD and it turns out they’re celebrating HVAC Temperature Control Fluctuation Day, and nobody got them anything. I’m not sure what that means. Is it just me or is it hot in building 7 today?
moonlighting again?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209600496