Sometimes when you feel like your world is turning upside down and you need a little perspective/humor to turn things around, this is just the place to go to gain some perspective.

update: I don’t think you can create a whole blog dedicated to this type of hot dog but it takes the cuteness cake, that is for sure.

I am waiting in great anticipation for Phil Lapsley to publish his History of Phone Phreaking book. In the mean time, I get to enjoy tasty and funny morsels that emerge out of his research blog. Apparently, the FBI, even while invading privacy, also protect, I guess when some exceptional circumstances arise.

I am not quite here but give me another year and I will be close or even there/

I know this is on Planet already BUT I need to keep it for my own records on hacker humor (I have a chapter on this in my book) and well, it is good enough to have it show up 2x:

I occasionally send quotes that make me smile to Joey, but this time I can’t resist circulating it more widely…

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> Marek Vasut (1):
> i2c/tps65010: Vibrator hookup to gpiolib

Guys, I know we geeks aren’t known for our sex-life, but do we have to
make it so obvious?

(Linus Torvalds)

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We can not directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may speedily transfer your commision for this transaction. After I receive that information I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

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The source of this? A former U of C graduate anthropology classmate. This actually may be the original source, or like all really good spam, somewhat (seemingly at least) sourceless.

The Big Fail

Ok, this is really funny

Sometimes what circulates on the Internet, such as this little visual comparison may not accomplish much, except create a whole lot of smiles. That is good enough for me.

chown hall.

A number of weeks ago, I asked for some help concerning good, geeky web comics and got some nice responses. While in Brazil, Pablo pointed me out to a home-grown strip, Nerdson. Makes me wonder about the other non-English geek comics out there.