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Darn it. I was hoping Fields would be getting good news, particularly with his friend Sam Mills passing away.

The eerie beauty of an abandoned Renaissance Faire. Great pictures. (Caveat: One picture of unidentified animal remains, in case you’re eating.) Link courtesy of White Noise

Here at work we’ve been watching bouncebacks flood into an email inbox, apparently triggered by the recent spread of Sober.p. The bouncebacks are coming from virus-laden emails heading out to the world with fake “From” addresses…in this case, that particular email address. Now, given the fact that we use this address primarily as an internal address inside a small, secure, virus-protected network, don’t publish it, and have only used it to communicate with a few relatively computer-savvy people, it bothers me that even the few machines where it is likely to exist outside our network are still vulnerable to this sort of thing. Email viruses have been well publicized for around a decade. Why — given the fact that this one doesn’t even look like a real message from us — are people still clicking on the attachments?!? Shouldn’t we be making the virus writers work harder now? :| ...

We were walking toward Ted’s Montana Grill in Durham to partake of some bison, and we see some tall fellows walking toward us. I think one of them looks like Marvin Williams, so I stare until I figure out that it is him. Nice guy that he is, he even moved out of the way as I wandered blankly by, gawking. After we get into the restaurant, Lorrie points out that he was with Sean May and Wes Miller. (Who looked taller in person than he does with the rest of the team.) You know, it’s not like I really need more proof that my brain isn’t exactly agile when surprised. There go my dreams of being Sherlock Holmes. :) ...

I hope people aren’t just so complacent as to easily accept unfavorable comparison of our system of government to Al Qaeda…even if that comparison was made by Pat Robertson and the Family Research Council. (And it gets worse, if you scroll down to the links near the end of the article.)

…as illustrated by gummi bears. Great pictures. Link courtesy of Boing Boing

Interesting that the Freeman Dyson quote here contradicts the spirit of the quotes from Richard Dawkins and Lisa Saksida. Even more interesting, " If you could teach the world just one thing…"

The Campus Walk fire was another Greensboro tragedy, but perhaps one where reconciliation is already happening. Link courtesy of EdCone.com

Greensboro’s own Truth & Reconciliation Commission is rolling along on its project of uncovering the truth behind the violence of November 3, 1979. Laudable cause. Greensboro has already had occasional reflexive spasms of guilt over that particular crime, and as you can see, they haven’t seemed to do much good as far as reconciliation. I would love to see this commission actually bring about that reconciliation, but I’m not sure where the reconciliation part is going to come in. What is being reconciled, and with whom? Are we to be reconciled with our own memories of a miscarriage of justice, as Klansmen and Nazis walked free because, as a city at that time, we hated the idea of Communists even more? ...

We have a house! :) (You know, trying to figure out whether two words in Latin are correct has seriously exposed how many years it has been since high school for me. I still don’t know if that’s right.)