the Innernets is broken

A bigger issue than the recent DNS vulnerability has been discovered that would allow an attacker to reroute traffic with a specific destination to themselves and then silently pass it to the legitimate destination. Lots of people are probably reevaluating industrial espionage as a career path right now...

Math Pr0n

Extreme Ironing

From the Bureau of the Absurd. No, that's not Extreme Irony, there is no typo. This should dispel any misconceptions about what this is about:

We're all winners!

Via Boy on a Stick and Slither.

We're Losing Soil

Great article in National Geographic about why we're losing soil, techniques to fight that trend, and why those techniques could go a long way toward reducing poverty, starvation, and global warming.

The only thing they forgot to mention is the effect of transubstantiation on all this. The Eucharist eats too many atoms!

CIA 12020 Sunset Hills Rd Reston VA Eyeball

I always wondered about this building when I used to commute from Burke to Dulles.

What Kind of D&D Character Would McCain Be?

Wired's Threat Level blog wants to know.

How Many Atoms of Jesus Do You Eat Every Day?

Find out here. Also note that because of transubstantiation, the world will be made entirely of Jesus in ~4.91 billion years.

Long story about the rise and fall of a "Dwarf Fortress" city.