Grab Bag

Ok, this post is a grab bag of stuff I have sent to myself, telling myself I should put them on the blog. First up is Second Life. This is an online world where you can buy real-estate, and basically do a lot of the things you can do in the “real” world. This may be the closest thing to the “Metaverse” aka “net” as described in Neil Stephenson‘s Snow Crash.

Next is this post to Bruce Schneier’s blog, which purports to be an actual cryptogram from a double murder-suicide that no one has been able to break. Of course, it isn’t like the cryptogram holds the key to who did the killing, because like I said, it was a murder-suicide, but it might hold more of a key as to WHY the husband in this case went nutso and offed his wife and stepson. Or it might just be a list of movies to rent… who knows…

Then there is the Anonym.OS LiveCD. This claims to be a live BSD distro that can hide your surfing and stuff by routing everything through anonymous servers. Not sure if it works, and supposedly it is pretty slow, but there it is. I guess if you didn’t want to go to the trouble of driving down the street and connecting on your laptop through someone elses WAP, you could do this instead… 🙂

Last but not least is this very funny “Zork“-type text adventure story where someone is playing as the President of the United States. Hilarious.