Tim on June 19th, 2008

Ran across this story about sending email via snail.
I hope everyone can find some humor in this, but the Computer Scientist in me finds it awesome. It’s non-deterministic email, via snail — almost a Rube Goldberg machine. This system would give total plausible deniability, “but I sent it last month!”

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I was reading Reddit the other day and saw a link proclaiming that “the Ouroboros is real!”. Having no idea what this was, I clicked through, and found pictures of a lizard that basically eats it’s own tail when threatened, protecting it’s belly.
Hitting up Wikipedia, I found out that the Ouroboros is a concept that’s […]

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