Another great old one gone

Stanislaw Lem dies at 84. Damn. The Cyberiad. Solaris. A Perfect Vacuum. The Invincible. Damn.

Case mods

The Ultimate List. Yup! That's what it is, all right. Impressive.

Update: I especially like The Case That Must Not Be Named.

Fun with the Unix command line

Here we have a modified version of the ancient and honorable finger daemon controlling a USB-controlled vibrator. (From this post by jwz, via BoingBoing.)

Stupid bureaucrat tricks

You just couldn't make stuff like this up. In this amazing exchange of email Jerry Taylor, the city manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma, threatens to call the FBI on CentOS (maker of a Linux distribution) because their name was on the city's misconfigured website. Another account can be found at The Reg, but the email exchange really speaks for itself.