At my friend’s funeral today, we were standing in the cemetary listening to the preacher.
About halfway through the preacher’s speech, a little boy behind me suddenly asked his dad, “He’s fine, why are they crying? He’s in a better place!”
It made me smile.
Little kids who understand better than adults GMH.
Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To The Internet
These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web “in the event of a catastrophic event.”
The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we’d be left without a way to verify if a URL is pointing to the correct website. That’s when the holders of these smart cards would be called into action.
A Pokemon battle in the real world, captured by Quinn (click for a larger image). The artist’s original title for this composition: “Go fuck yourself, Gary Oak”.
Buy: Pokemon HeartGold and/or SoulSilver
See also: Letters To An Absent Father strips
[Via Quinn, Peter Berkman]
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