- Brin rebuts Scheier’s essay on transparency.
- Great video walkthrough of a $100-$200 limit hold ’em six-player game online.
- Cool method for getting an iPod headphone cord out of the way.
- Stephen Fry on The Question to which the answer is 42:
Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious. Nonetheless amazing for that. Remarkable really. But sadly I cannot share it with anyone and the secret must go with me to the grave. Pity, because it explains so much beyond the books. It really does explain the secret of life, the universe, and everything.
- Quote of the week, via Ralf Bendrath: “Bruce Schneier feeds Schrödinger’s cat on his back porch. Without opening the box.”
- For that matter, these other Bruce Schneier facts amused the hell out of me. Think Chuck Norris, only for geeks.
- Halo 3 players are apparently pacifistic nihilists. No, really. At a limbic level.