Missed Last HOPE? Wanted to hear the OpenSSL lecture but couldn’t get into Turing?

The ridiculously overpriced DVDs ($20 per talk, $100 for ten) of the lectures are being ripped and tracked here.

Note that the video quality issues (poor color and contrast) are DVD issues, not a consequence of the ripping.

Despite my problems with Wikipedia and the “wisdom of the masses,” xkcd is entirely correct that List of problems solved by MacGyver is a wonderful article.

(If you don’t know what I am talking about, even after following the link, allow your mouse to hover over the comic image to display the alt text. As of FF3, the text is no longer truncated. Yay. Now go back and re-read all of xkcd.)