Rainbow cracking. Passwords are almost universally stored on computers in an unreversable hashed form. Traditionally the cracker has had to generate billions of passwords to match the hashes. But the falling cost of storage has outfoxed computation speed: just precompute it all in advance. What used to require weeks now just takes minutes.

The Kitten Has Two Faces Shamelessly stolen directly from MetaFilter. They suggest Zaphod as a name. I would go with Harvey Dent. more inside

Be buried down under. Rita Fletcher, 78, offers her grave for sale. "This delightful plot is situated in a much sort after location in the popular Centennial Park in the southern Adelaide suburbs. The corner plot adjoins a quiet tree lined, sealed, access lane conveniently located for easy access." Which got me wondering: Where will you go after you die?

How to Write a Romance Novel Euphemism of the century: "Their love was a red-orange thing."

Chickens Suit “A gadget that no one needs but everyone wants to have”, the ChickensSuit® website promises no more and no less than a “piece of freedom”. more inside

Surviving being Eaten by a Whale - "Once inside, sit tight and try not to touch anything if at all possible. Gastric processes are invasive and skin does not recover well from encounters with digestive fluids."

SIGN THIS NOW!!! ATTN: Americans! Congress wants to kill PBS and NPR. Don't let them dumb us down even more. via Overcompensating

Galaxy Dynamics An ongoing project to visualize and animate the dynamics of galaxies using supercomputer simulations.

Dress up like Spiderman and swing. No, it's not Wednesday night in suburbia. It's another annoying Flash game to stop you working...

"Roach coach" is a robot, controlled by a cockroach. Is it a robot? A vehicle? A super-power-device? WTF! It's roach coach.

Nepal : Pankaj Mishra writes on the ongoing "People's War ".

Dear Japan, We hate you. Love, Korean schoolchildren. Don't kids say draw the darndest things?! Not sure what the inspiration was for these drawings, but for some reason these kids are all about laying the smack down on Japan. Via cynical-c

The biggest financial bubble in history is about to burst . Or so says The Economist. Problem is they don't know when exactly. One hint: watch the mainstream press. Whenever there's exuberant front-page coverage, a crash usually isn't far behind. Uh- oh. When bubbles pop, the aftermath isn't pretty. But if we're talking ugliness this is the one to beat. more inside

David Lynch reports the weather... for Los Angeles. Every day. Oh, and I'm having a BBQ tomorrow (friday the 17th)...around 6ish...it's my birthday...and muffpub's in town...and all the monkeys are coming...monkey meetup! email me for the address...

Talking chimp's first press conference. Short New Yorker humor piece. Perhaps this should have fit better on the breast thread...