Things That Are Meta

In a fractious free-for-all, rival hackers engage in tit-for-tat attacks on each other, often for no better reason than to outwit the other guy. http://nyti.ms/lWovGt This is a NYT repost. Hackers Select a New Target: Other Hackers In a war of egos, it's one hacker against another. The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends. But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers. And in trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security, the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg — and, indirectly, to help law enforcement officials lock them up. The core members of Lulz Security “lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit,” the A-Team sneered in its posting last month. In re...

In honor of Lisbeth's departure from my office - but not from my life - I thought I would reissue one of my favorite blog posts of all time.  Au revoir, Lisbeth and Lisbeth's tiny office within our office! Dear world, meet my coworker Lisbeth. Lisbeth runs a blog about tiny things , so for her birthday, her boss got her a very comprehensive office suite playmobile set. A secret admirer got her a tiny piano for her tiny office, but that's another story altogether. We set up a meta photo shoot so that it could be seen by all as not just a small toy, but also an office within an office . We think we got some good shots - enjoy! The side-by-side; notice the leg anglementation and the white notebook in the right hand:

Guest post by Maria. It turns out Google isn't just awesome, it's meta, too! One of Google+'s new features is called Huddle, which is a group messaging feature.  As far as we can tell, it has no real purpose.  However, two of our friends were caught putting their heads together to try to figure this feature out - in other words, they were huddling over Huddle!  Thanks, Google.