The NSA is running “loose lips” ads in military magazines and as posters in military facilities. More pictures #1, #2, and #3 (shown), and #4.
This is the first time the NSA has ever commissioned an outside ad campaign, said NSA spokeswomen Marti Mercer. Like all aspects of budget for the ultra-secret NSA, the advertising campaign’s cost is classified.
– from Kepple
Very early attempts to analyse the structure of Simmish, the language of the Sims. Not very detailed, but I appreciate learning the canonical spelling of “Dis graw is fredeshay”.
A lot of birthdays coming up: Ditherati, NTK, and Netscape 4.0 are all five, osil8 is six, Zeldman was seven. And Mozilla, hopefully, will be either zero, or too many years old, depending on how you look at it.
Things that should have an RDF feed, number one.
Dorodango! The shiny ball of mud that kids (and cheating adults with electron microscopes) go crazy for!
Onion prefigures future: Meg’s fall from vegetarian grace leads ineluctably to I Desperately Need Bone Marrow.
BrainHeart is the strangest magazine I read these days. It’s a glossy Swedish magazine funded by one of the big Euro wireless venture capital firms. It has this crazy aspiration to be a muddy mix of Wallpaper*, Red Herring, Fast Company, Wired, and What Mobile?. All the articles are written in a eurojetsetting Scandlish intonation: perfectly grammatical with a plodding sing-song quality. “Let’s assume that we would like to take a wireless tourist tour through Stockholm’s 750-year-old Old Town, Gamla Stan. What would the tour look like?”, begins one rip-roaring read. Every cover has a man and a women from the endlessly dull business world of Swedish telecoms, wearing these perfect clothes, perfectly photographed in perfect settings. The articles are all about building telcos “with brain and heart”, but it’s mostly just “wouldn’t it be great if we could all be nice to one another, and guess how many Kronor I just spent on my new headset?”. I can’t put it down. I haven’t been as simultaneously revolted and fascinated by a publication since the rise of the Mexican Death zine. Get a BrainHeart subscription for free, and share my confusion.
I’ve rather foolishly hacked DeadHorse (this site’s PHP blogging system) to cope with multiple entries in one day. It was a bit of a struggle, frankly, but it works – although the entries within a day are no longer in reverse chronological order, which ain’t the blog way. DeadHorse’s design is collapsing under the strain. I’ll have to refactor it, which if previous experience is to go by, means migrating it from PHP to something a bit less clunky.
update: Oh, it does work. I was just writing backwards. Excellent.
Quinn says it’s funny that Metafilter should run
on the same day as
“since”, she says, “Metafilter is the ultimate BBS tribute site”.
