SAFE MEN on DVD

via CHUD. There is nothing else to say other than a.) now, you people have no excuse. Go watch Rockwell, Zahn, and Giamatti rock the house and b.) Yes, sweetheart, I will go pick it up on my way home.

His Security-Fu is Strong

via BoingBoing, I see somebody's melding Chuck Norris and Bruce Schneier. I've been "loaning out" (that is, giving away endless copies) Schneier's Beyond Fear, and it really is required reading in this time -- more so, his e-mail newsletter, a regular little dose of snark and realism.

Hey, call me a geek, but ... "Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes" makes me laugh my ass off.

The Subtle Knife

You know, I'm a big fan of The Daily Show and Colbert Report. But I can say that this is the first time that Bill Hicks -- who did not die, but transcended mortality -- out on the border between the Real universe and the Chaosium from whence the Cthulhic Horrors spring, way out there on the border where he fights the Creatures of Madness with Elvis's old six-shooters powered by his own prodigious sex magicks ...

This is the first time Hicks looked back over his shoulder at us and smiled.