Monday Miscellany!

• It appears that Moscow is financially backing Hungary's far right in support of their anti-NATO, anti-EU rhetoric. I wonder how many other fascist parties are getting money from the Kremlin, and if it's anywhere near as many as got support from the United States once?


• FUD from Russia; FUD from the West. (Definition of FUD)


• The engineer who once defended her employer, GitHub, as an example of a startup that promotes women in a field rife with sexism, has quit GitHub — citing an internal culture rife with sexism. See also this tweet. Ouch. Of course Slashdot has a discussion.


• Everyone hates Fred Phelps now, even as he's apparently dying. It's easy to forget that he was once one of the most aggressive civil rights lawyers in America.


• Your credit cards are about to change. Visa is going to replace the magnetic stripe with an encrypted chip; Mastercard wants to go one step further and include a PIN. The thing is, both systems have serious security problems (2) (Both are PDFs)


• From xylograph_rss comes Cthulhu Magnets.


• Carrot facts. Enjoy.

The Big Bang!

It appears that we finally have real evidence of the Big Bang.

Father Lemaître would be pleased!