e pur si muove

Welcome to new reader/linker fortycalibernap (malefactor), who has occasional awesome photos on his blog. This one isn’t his per se, but this photo is thoughtful nonetheless:

I do quibble, though, that I’ve never seen whole animals shrinkwrapped on styrofoam: whole chicken, for example, usually comes in a mesh bag. Not that I blame the PETA people for not taking verisimilitude one step further by protesting in the form of chopped-up body parts and choice cuts.

Lots of weird and wonderful technobabble today. Must be the effect of Father’s Day weekend.

One Peter J. Edge has come up with a casemod that is more a work of art than a utilitarian, aptly entitled the (casefan)⁷⁰. « Gizmodo « Boing Boing « Slashdot.

Gizmodo also reports that holographic technology mavens Optware (of Japan) are planning to release 30GB holographic media next year. While the readers are expensive, each storage unit is dirt cheap, being slated for pricing at 100 yen.

Slashdot announces the 2005 Underhanded C Contest:

in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil.

Every year, we will propose a challenge to coders to solve a simple data processing problem, but with covert malicious behavior. Examples include miscounting votes, shaving money from financial transactions, or leaking information to an eavesdropper. The main goal, however, is to write source code that easily passes visual inspection by other programmers.

This year’s challenge is steganography.

I had a thing going about why cats are evil, but Firefox died mysteriously when I clicked on ‘Save’. So instead, here’s how kleptomaniacs enjoy eBay. « Daryl Sng.