[Dailydave] You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike

[security curmudgeon]

: During his talk, he shows you some of the stills of the cave, and as he 
: goes through them, if you've played enough Adventure, your brain can 
: reconstruct the geography. From just the experience of playing a text 
: game, you feel like you know your way around the cave as he goes through 
: the photos. It's uncanny. You've never been there, or even seen 
: drawings, but your brain tells you that you recognize the places. Yes, 
: here's the hall of the mountain king, here's the birdcage room, here's 
: the stream you go down to find the cave where the lamp sits. Anyways, he 
: has his site up at takelamp.com. It's worth a look-see. 

This is excellent, glad you shared this.

: Sometimes the talks you go to in a conference that are not technical are 
: the ones you remember.

Too bad most conference organizers (or the people responsible to pick 
presentations) don't realize this. Rather than accept non-technical but 
interesting (even security related) talks, the last few years they have 
tended to pick multiple presentations on the same topics. One year at 
BlackHat had several talks on XSS and SQL injection for example. 
Co-workers who sat in on those talks said they were hardly new or 
interesting.