the eelful hovercraft

And here I was, sitting and thinking it’s going to be yet another placeholder post, when the beloved linux-elitists mailing list comes to rescue with the following:

A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx – a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others – on Sun’s Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this “unusual” event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor’s door and arrested him.

Boing Boing

What’s even more interesting, though, is the BBC’s version of the story. “I’ve noticed that the press tends to be quite accurate, except when they’re writing on a subject I know something about.” Indeed.

Meantime, in other parts of the world, your captain made himself a photolog and somebody else made some fantastic Hiëronymus Bosch action figures. Do enjoy.