MIT pranksters succeed again

You've got to hand it to the kids at MIT...for a science nerd like myself, this is pretty funny.

CNN:

In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference.

The paper itself:

• Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy (pdf).

Washington and Jefferson

Here's a photo from the south side of the Tidal Basin. The white flowers you see are the cherry blossoms. 

Scenes from DC

Saturday was a beautiful spring day in Washington. I was at the annual cherry blossom festival and took this (slightly tilted) photo of the Jefferson Memorial.