Thank you, Mr. Adams, for the incredible humour
you brought into my world. Your works have a special place in the
life of myself and my friends; 42 is forever significant. I hope
they've saved you the best table at Milliways.
--- Author
Douglas Adams Dies - BBC News
The latest
Cypto-Gram, a free monthly newsletter on computer security and
cryptography from Bruce
Schneier, is excellent, as
usual. It contains some thoughtful pieces like "The
Futility of Digital Copy Prevention",
news and a quote I can't resist repeating: "No place is so strongly
fortified that money could not capture it." (See Crypto-Gram for the
Latin version.)
---
Crypto-Gram
May 15, 2001 Issue
Life
was good. A swamp, some
"No Trespassing" signs, and everyone too afraid to bother you.
But what's an ogre to do when home sweet swamp becomes a refugee camp
for nursery rhyme and fairy tale creatures? If your name is Shrek, you
do a deal with the local despot and go on a quest to restore the status
quo! A little something involving a princess, a dragon, and mortal danger,
more or less.
A
peasant seizes the opportunity
to fulfill his life dream of becoming a knight by assuming the identity
of his dead master at a jousting tournement.
As Queen's "We Will Rock You"
plays during the opening credits one notices the peasants at the tournament
are stomping and clapping in rhythm, a big hint that the movie won't be
historically accurate. If this is a big thing for you, don't see this
movie.
Life
was good. A swamp, some
"No Trespassing" signs, and everyone too afraid to bother you.
But what's an ogre to do when home sweet swamp becomes a refugee camp
for nursery rhyme and fairy tale creatures? If your name is Shrek, you
do a deal with the local despot and go on a quest to restore the status
quo! A little something involving a princess, a dragon, and mortal danger,
more or less.
A
peasant seizes the opportunity
to fulfill his life dream of becoming a knight by assuming the identity
of his dead master at a jousting tournement.
As Queen's "We Will Rock You"
plays during the opening credits one notices the peasants at the tournament
are stomping and clapping in rhythm, a big hint that the movie won't be
historically accurate. If this is a big thing for you, don't see this
movie.
