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Bruce Schneier: "I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch." Words of wisdom.

I've been looking for a reason to link to something about Omaha, which is the game of champions. Poker News's coverage of the 2008 WSOP has been first rate, and I'm always glad to see Erik Seidel in there.



"John Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse," by Chris Nealon

Russian hackers planning attacks agains Baltic countries and Ukraine. Where's Gadi?



"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run a software company is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf." Joel Spolsky taken out of context.

Hacker conference videos for your viewing pleasure.

Modern Art and Rubbish

The ever amusing Zed Shaw emerges from the rubble of Bear Sterns to preach the truth about programming, IDEs, the financial market, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and on and on. I look forward to his posts with unhealthy amounts of glee.

It's a SCADA party! More here and here and, of course, here.

An interview with Alan Moore.



The Stuckist Manifesto (I love a good manifesto. Maybe that's what I like about Zed Shaw's writing. It all feels like a manifesto.)

Ultra Large Systems

To the person who bought the Surrealist manifesto for 3.9 million euros. (I was saving my money, but the exchange rates killed me.)

And to this Mancunian. ("Older, wiser, never applied to me.")

And, finally, to those other Mancunians. When John Terry slipped, I forgot myself, yelling "There is a god!"

Well, Robert Rauschenberg is dead. Along with John Cage, a favorite. I saw Bed once, up close, I think, and was moved.