For those of you who may be considering revenge in the form of a venomous snake sent to your enemy’s door, learn from the lesson provided by these idiots. Lesson 1: copperheads kill less than 1% of bite victims. Splurge on a Black Mamba. At just $400.00, Dendroaspis polylepis are priced to move, and unless your victim is very lucky and/or a very experienced handler, chances are they’re gonna croak. Lesson 2: leaving fingerprints on the box you mail the snake in is just asking for trouble. Lesson 3: if you fuck up, and it doesn’t work, some redneck cop is going to shoot the snake. And it really isn’t fair that it should die when it was trying to do you such a dangerous favor, is it? So think this out.

Slashdot is running a story this afternoon about the guy who created the De-CSS haiku a few years back, and clicking around on sites they linked within that story led me to find some pretty neat stuff. All old news, of course, but worth a look anyways. Sites are here and here.