Potpourri for the Feast of St Pamphilus

Busy day, so let’s throw out some quick linky love.

1. Who was St Pamphilus? (Not to be confused with St Pamphilus of Caesarea)
2. Chinese nuclear tests, secret spy missions in the Himalayas, and a bunch of lost of Plutonium — ah, those were the glory days of the CIA …
3. It’s not the hackers we need to worry about — it’s the system complexity and cascading failures that are likely to do us in.
4. Cat girls! (thanks, De)
5. No more Canadian money jokes — the Canadian and US dollars hit parity yesterday for the first time in three decades. Good news for Canadian tourists, bad news for Canadian manfacturers and exporters.
6. Save the Arecibo Radio Telescope!
7. Soldier slang from Iraq — well, mostly.  Some of those terms predate (some by quite some ways) the current war.
8. The Paleolithic Diet … looks pretty screwy. (via kottke)
9. The fellow behind Irregular Webcomic is doing a DM of the Rings style version of Star Wars.
10. Japanese robotic face-morphing technology.  Vaguely reminiscent of the face part of the character builder in City of Heroes, but … well … real.  And exceedingly creepy.