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I’ve spotted this in a few places, most recently There Is No Cat and Airbag. I tried it for entertainment, and the results were, predictably, entertaining. The idea is to open the nearest book (no, don’t go looking—the nearest book,) open to page 23, find the fifth sentence, and post it.
I find it most amusing that the two above both hit the same book, but got different sentences.
Some of these could be legitimate, perhaps web crawlers creating an index; but when the hits are coming from dialup12345.nowhere.aq in faraway Antarctica, it’s more likely that some script kiddie is probing your ports.
From Linux Security Cookbook, Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman & Robert G. Byrnes, the introduction to Chapter 2: “Firewalls with iptables and ipchains.” Hey, I’m at work, what did you think the closest book would be? OK, maybe the woodpecker book, or the camel book, or the armadillo book.
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Comments
Posted by: ralph | April 17, 2004 12:34 AM
Mine’s hardly worth mentioning. Depending on how you count it, it’s either “Sometimes the weekly training logs of champion runners are made public; what you usually see is a particularly great week of training, not a typical week.” or “Or you may see a week in the strenuous phase of training, which is not at all the same as a week during a competitive phase of training.”
Of course my nearest book is a running book.
Posted by: Alison | April 17, 2004 9:09 AM