According to Greek mythology, Hades, ruler of the Underworld, fell in love with the nymph Menthe. Persephone, Hades’s wife, became wildly jealous and began to trample Menthe. Hades rushed forward and transformed Menthe into a shrub to keep her near him always. Persephone was appeased, thinking that Menthe would be trampled for eternity beneath the feet of passersby, but Hades gave Menthe a wonderfully sweet fragrance he could cherish each time he passed by.
Him and everyone else. It seems Hades was satisfied even though others trampled on his love as he could still cherish her through smell.
It is not every day that you read in the news that someone has paid $50K for Pooh:
The oval pencil sketch by E.H. Shepard, one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators, shows Pooh dipping his paw into a pot of honey while sitting at a table as Piglet and Tigger look on.
Auctioneer Bonhams said the successful telephone bidder was from Germany and bought the picture for his wife, a long-time Pooh fan.
With this kind of success, especially during hard times, more Pooh is on the way.
It was twenty years ago today
Sgt. Morris taught the worms to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to last a while
So may I introduce to you…
the bug you’ve known for all these years
Sgt. Morris Lonely worm club band
Cute.
Danny McPherson takes a different approach to explain the changes in 20 years since the Morris Worm.
…new network applications being developed can’t work on new ports or employ new IP-based transport protocols, so they’ve got to piggyback on existing “open” ones (e.g., IPSEC v. TLS). The nearing exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the adoption of IPv6, which is not bits-on-the-wire compatible, only exacerbates the transparency problem…
Try saying that three times fast. In other words, I think he means to say that the implicit trust is gone. The Internet touches more people today with many more complex relationships and so they need a more closed/protective mode to begin with.
“One time the power went out in my house, I had no lights. Fortunately my camera had a flash. I went to make a peanut butter sandwich and took 60 pictures of my kitchen. My neighbors called the police. They thought it was lightning in my house.”
“I was walking down the street and all of a sudden the prescription for my eye-glasses ran out…”
“I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once. He was fun when he was a puppy. I named him Stay. When I’d call him I’d say C’mere Stay C’mere Stay he’d go like this. He’s a lot smarter than that now. Now when I call him he just ignores me and keeps on typing.”
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”