Palfrey's life

My first week or so back in Delft has been fairly calm and peaceful. I've spent a bunch of it thinking about how to turn one of these into a USB/Ethernet bridge (eminently hackable hardware, running on Linux, £60. Not bad for a potential smart bridge). Life back on a decent 'net connection is also a good thing.

Oh and some links. All connected by each having a different wonderful phrase/term in them...

• That sound you hear is the "pop" of several billion Chinese and Indian economic planners getting simultaneous erections (SFW. Well, almost certainly)


• 'We need a word to describe "intelligent beings who are not us"'


• The Clue-Missile Mark VI. Your choice of weapons when more subtle flirtation fails (see also the next strip)


• "I am the very model of a modern major coder geek!" (see also the next one. With appropriate apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan)


• I can't believe some actually made a "Free the mallocs!" t-shirt

Edit: And the Hugo people chose well. I actually already had a copy on order at Amazon when I heard this. Which will be here in a day or two :-)