So, in case you've been living in a cave for the past several weeks, the Old Spice guy (Isaiah Mustafa) has become incredibly popular for his fast-paced commercials. BYU's Lee Library recently put together a spoof of the commercials advertising for the library. Here it is in all its glory:

Worried that network monitoring at school or work is going to reveal passwords? How much do you trust the wireless Internet at the airport? If the network is unencrypted (and possibly even if it is), anyone could be watching your Internet browsing and maybe pick up a password or two. The following instructions will help you set up PuTTY and SSH on a Windows computer to secure traffic out of wherever you are.

This is apparently what happens to a perfectly normal water bottle when you leave it in the back window of your car at 90 degrees:

I admit, I mostly stole this post from here, but I feel it is valuable enough that I need to repost it.

Worried that network monitoring at school or work is going to reveal passwords? How much to you trust the wireless Internet at the airport. If the network is unencrypted (and possibly even if it is), anyone could be watching your Internet browsing and maybe pick up a password or two. The following instructions will help you set use SSH to provide some more security.

1. Open up Terminal
2. Type "ssh -D [port number] example.com" WHERE [port number] is replaced with a port and example.com is replaced with the domain of your SSH server. For example, if my ssh server were located at ssh.example.com, I would type: ssh -D 8081 ssh.example.com
3. Log in to the SSH server. Enter whatever username and password are required.

Now that your SSH connection is set up, I will give instructions for how to set this up in Firefox 3.6 and Google Chrome.