I thought I was healthy again. I really did. Then about 3 this morning I woke up feeling as though someone had jammed an icepick into my ear, and was making me swallow a brillo pad. Phone call to doctor placed. Waiting for referral to ENT. Ugh.
- If you’ve been trying to email Lawrence Lessig, you might as well Call It the Dead E-Mail Office. He’s declared
email bankruptcy
and given up on trying to reply individually to all the email he gets. Heck, I decided a few years ago that I wasn’t going to respond to every email people sent me. Maybe I’m just more of a slacker, but I get people asking me questions that would take hours of work to answer via email. Some of those get answered on a web-page around here (if the question really interested me), but mostly I just file the email and if I send any response, it’s pretty short. That’s the only way to keep up with writing stuff for here, getting the paying work done, and having time enough to decompress and stay sane. [wired] - Remember TIA? Remember how it was supposed to be shut down? It’s alive, and it’s Where Big Brother Snoops on Americans 24/7.
- Bruce Schneier explains how The Witty worm [is] A new chapter in malware, using some smart tricks, extra-destructive behaior, and apparently bug-free code. It infected all 12,000 vulnerable hosts on the internet within 45 minutes. That’s pretty darned quick, and if a more widespread vulnerability had been picked… [boing boing]
- For all you musicians in the audience, here’s Martin Mull’s Dueling Tubas (from 1973). Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is, and worth every penny, especially since the CD is out of print. [papascott]