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They ARRESTED ME for RIDING an ORANGE BICYCLE!!!

weev pointed out something that’s been bugging me today also. First boingboing and then Slashdot have carried the “story” that some guy was arrested and led off in chains “for using Lynx”.

For those not in the geek way, Lynx is a text-only web browser that’s often used on a text console, especially by administrators and others who need a nongraphical view of a website.

The story as reported by the websites is that our hero was just viewing this site using Lynx and then was arrested for being a hacker! Because the “user agent” information that’s sent to the site tells you which browser you’re using, and that isn’t a standard one. Or something.

This cannot be. Anyone who’s run a well-trafficked website will tell you that weird-ass user agents clog your logs all the time. Not only do you see lots of variations on every known browser and several programming languages’ web routines, but anyone can submit any user agent, so programs with names like SpoogeMonkey-ItalianDinner-0.003a and UrMomHawHaw-43-Kmart go by all day.

I have no idea what this guy was doing, but no one kicks down your door for having a weird user agent.

What a load of ignorant crap. Even for boingboing and Slashdot this is terrible.

I think I just committed some type of federal crime

I heisted one of my mother’s Skelaxin to make my shoulder stop spasming and hurting. It worked. Hurray for drugs! Today was a bizarre experience. After both eating some wrong food and having too much alcohol last night, I kept napping and waking up again today. I also managed somehow to walk into a pole at full speed while stone cold sober coming out of the Tower Records so I had this ow on my left side. Then I kept making brainos and hearing things wrong all day. I was careful only to drive about a mile.

This whole neck tendon out of whack, cervical spine wiggling, arm in spasm, shoulder in spasm, butt hurting on one side thing is just for the birds. It’s not likely to get much worse or kill me or anything, but it’s like a toothache. Takes a bit of the zest outa life, you know.

On the plus side I made a very good tomato+chicken curry tonight. And with a tremendous amount of water and coffee during the day I managed to stop feeling like I was jet lagged and mildly tubercular. When I went to Tower and walked into the pole I was purchasing The Unheard Music, the movie about X, which made me very happy to have. I haven’t seen it since it came out and it’s one of my favorite music documentaries.

Someone left the cake out in the rain.

This is the fault of joyfulagitator

See, pizza is good. We all like it! It has a crust with tasty fatty salty things on it. Mmm. But it’s not quite enough. We need it to have more fatty salty things on it! Maybe we could make Pizza Ice Cream! Or a Pizzuccino Mocha.

No, I’ve got it!

We’ll make Dippin’ Strips so you can dip the pizza in other things!

Mmm. Pepperoni pizza dipped in ranch dressing. Can I get that bacon-wrapped?

honk.

I bought the wrong replacement carafe for my coffee maker today. This is a consumer crisis because I am addicted to coffee like you would not believe and I only have this tiny little Bodum which I must detonate like dynamite several times to get the monkey on my back to sleep. This is a tiny problem that affects me more than it should.

My shrink thing was excellent today. This “EMDR” thing is actually starting to show results; I’m able to get more done and I’m less weepy and pathetic. Let’s hear it for Science.

Does anyone know anything about language courses on audio? I’d like to learn more Spanish and I can’t really swing the night school thing. Recommendations cheerfully accepted.

“Asian pears” are really, really good.

Can I be Umberto Eco when I grow up?