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Via Electrolite, there is a fascinating piece about Bruce Schneier, which talks about what security means, and how Schneier became increasingly skeptical about the efficacy of cryptography alone.
Gosh, but Guy L. Steele is clever.
I got a bit of an appreciation for what DJs do by watching several DJs at work with vinyl LPs this week (at a party of Andrew's, and at the DNA Lounge). I hadn't understood exactly what they were doing until I got to see it up close; for example, I'd heard of beat-matching before, but I didn't understand the theory. (DJs are actually able to mix two songs together -- changing the phase and tempo of both with their hands and their equipment -- in such a way that the songs' rhythms blend together and the transition is almost imperceptible. That's one of their tricks, and there are others.) So obviously modern art forms and disciplines are being created which couldn't have existed before, and human beings are still constantly showing off their skill and especially their versatility.
(I knew what a cross-fader was, I owned a cross-fader, I'd even used a cross-fader both at a party and on a live radio program, but I never heard the full potential of the cross-fader until just this week... and perhaps I still haven't.)
John Young is getting some strong responses for publishing the names of secret agents (something he's done repeatedly in the past, but which this time was the subject of some press coverage). The reactions are including death threats.
This article is meaningless, and I thought so even before I saw it linked from slashdot. Doesn't anybody have anything real to say about Linux and business and the free software movement?
You can get official information about China in Esperanto.
You can also get (not in Esperanto, but in English) Shakespearean apocrypha, including such texts as Arden of Feversham, The Merry Devill of Edmonton, and The Tragedy of Locrine.
