waiting for further EIN files from the "erstwhile director of the european informatics network" himself. ¡begone holidays!

a lot has been said about the 24th and 25th of octubre 1972, but i haven't known until today, that derek l.a. barber was also in washington dc to present EIN at ICCC.

but then listen to bob kahn, sure why didn't i think about it before. stupid me. iccc1972 (audio/mpeg, 429 KB)

co2. or take the silent correction of the nasa timeline on the climate change peak.

not to forget, the praised benediction - diction as a tribute to eastereggs - of quantum cryptography. quantum hype vs reality also at schneier today.

"nobody cares" often just means nobody cares in the newsroom. not new, but needs to be said more often.

... And then they claim that Americans only care about vapid gossip and not substantive issues -- and point to their own shallow coverage decisions as "proof" of what Americans care about.

..The Time Magazines of the world ignore stories about Bush's abuses of spying powers. Therefore, Americans don't care about such abuses. That's the self-referential, self-loving rationale on which this entire article is based. And the whole article is filled with demonstrable falsehoods, all in service of arguing that the Bush administration has done nothing wrong, and even if they did, Americans don't mind at all. | glenn greenwald, salon via ip