Random Reading part $RANDOM

• Canada's CSEC tracked travellers at Canadian airports who used the free WiFi. Not only that, tracked 'em afterward and backward as they showed up at other public hotspots across Canada. Oh, lovely.

• A TSA screener explains: Yes, we saw you naked and we laughed.

• ESR writes about dragging Emacs forward -- switching to git, and away from Texinfo, all to keep Emacs relevant. There are about eleven thousand comments. Quote:

And if the idea of RMS and ESR cooperating to subvert Emacs's decades-old culture from within strikes you as both entertaining and bizarrely funny...yeah, it is. Ours has always been a more complex relationship than most people understand.

• My wife takes out our younger son's stuffed dogs for the day, and gets all the space she needs at Costco. WIN.

• Looks like the supernova in Ursa Major has peaked at magnitude 10.5 or so.

• Have I mentioned Adlibre backup before? 'Cos it's really quite awesome. Written in shell, uses rsync and ZFS to back up hosts. Simple and good.

• Maclean's sent a sketch artist to cover Justin Bieber getting booked. I'd like to sketch that well.