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A joke from my good friend (and fellow coffee snob) Jake who is currently getting a lot of attention for his blogging from Iraq.
<ioerror> Here’s a joke
<ioerror> How many Iraqis does it take to make a mocha?
<mroth> How many?
<ioerror> Two managers, a barrista, the owner, a translator and an american.
<ioerror> Guess which one I am?
<mroth> […]

Thanks to Judah Levine of NIST Boulder, we have an official explanation of the strange NTP messages:
Let me explain what you are seeing.
1. The first text is a pseudo-random text designed to confuse automated search engines (note the strategic colons). There are 16 poems and they are sent in a random sequence. The text is […]

Here’s something strange and interesting to explore. time.nist.gov is a standard NTP server, used to synchronize the clock on your computer to the government’s atomic clock.
However, it also seems to have another strange service running on ports 78 and 79. Telnet in, and hit enter after connection is established, and you get […]