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I’m not normally this macabre, but I hope you will forgive one post along those lines. From an April 11 article in ABC News:
Vermont Teen Accused of Raiding Tomb, Stealing Head From a CorpseCourt documents said the suspect allegedly talked of using the man’s head as a bong or a pipe for smoking marijuana.
Damned stoners. Maybe he intended to sell it to a head shop?
Update: There are mistakes in this list which I have yet to fix (namely, some people have advised theses indicated in the catalog but not in this dataset). I plan to fix this at some point. Mea culpa.
The thesis catalog is quite spotty about advisors; well over 30,000 of the 53,820 records do not have advisors entered. Of those that do, I now present the Hot 110; the advisors with at least 20 theses to their names. They are sorted by number of theses, with ties broken arbitrarily.
This is a catalog of the most popular words and phrases in Princeton senior thesis titles from 1926 to 2004.
An update, inspired by this classic Prince column:
Timeline (I think this is everything important):
| 13 Apr 01:28:45 -0400 | Phishing email exploiting unchecked redirect arrives |
| 13 Apr 01:54:51 -0400 | Emailed webinfo@capitalone.com to report it |
| 13 Apr 01:53:00 -0400 | Blog post posted |
| 13 Apr 16:29:45 -0400 | Inform Capital One of my intention to post to bugtraq in 24 hours |
| 13 Apr 16:31:11 -0400 | Capital One form letter arrives: “this [phishing] email has not compromised Capital One’s systems in any way,” |
| 13 Apr 16:44:42 -0400 | Reply to Capital One form letter: “this email has taken advantage of a compromised Capital One system: Capital One’s website redirects URLs without checking them….please see the note about bugtraq below” |
| 13 Apr 16:47:15 -0400 | Another form letter: “A Capital One representative will respond to your e-mail inquiry, usually within 24 - 48 hours. Please note, due to high email volumes, this timeframe may be extended to up to 72 hours”. I wonder if saying “bugtraq” provokes this response. |
| 19 Apr 16:32:15 -0400 | Four business days later (well beyond 72h), redirect is still unchecked. Post bug to bugtraq and cc Capital One |
| 19 Apr 16:53:46 -0400 | Reply to Capital One (signed by a human?) form letter: “the point is that the phishing email has exploited a flaw in Capital One’s systems. Your website permits unchecked redirects. This makes a phisher’s job much, much easier. |
| 19 Apr 18:01:00 -0400 | A bugtraq subscriber tells me that he’s emailed abuse@capitalone.com (I should have thought of that) |
| 19 Apr 14:27:05 -0800 | Another bugtraq subscriber tells me that it’s fixed. Checked myself — apparently, it is. |
| 19 Apr 18:55:38 -0400 | Send email to webinfo@, thanking them for fixing the unchecked redirect. |
The Old Grey Lady has just noticed the Anscombe Society, a newly-formed Princeton student group dedicated to promoting chastity.
Whatever. Back when I was there, the school also had a chastity-promoting club. We just didn’t have a pretentious brit-fop name for it: we called it the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
See also this post from 2003.
What famous, outspoken Republican politican is frequently spotted in Cambridge, where 87% of voters turned out for John Kerry in 2004?
A phisher just sent me an email claiming to be from Capital One, inviting me to enter my account information at his website. Unusually, Capital One is actually faciliating this scam: they provide an unchecked redirect feature on their website, so the URL actually starts with http://www.capitalone.com. Captial One then redirects the user to the phisher’s site!
If this link still redirects to Wikipedia, then the problem hasn’t been fixed yet:
From: "Capital One Representative: Kristina Barker " <Kristina.Barker@capitalone.com> To: 2bslashdot@barillari.org Subject: Error: Your Capital One Account Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:25:00 -0800 X-Spam-Score: 10.407 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: ********** (10.407) Capital One is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, Capital One Bank employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the Capital One Bank system for unusual activity. We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto your Capital One Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed by April 14, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you. Click below to verify your account http://www.capitalone.com/redirect.html?linkid=SECURITY+VALIDATION&dest=http://24.232.117.142/bin/capitalone.com/ Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporaly suspend your account. Thank you for using Capital One Bank! ----- End forwarded message -----
Ha! Below, barillari.org provides 100% original coverage of the infamous capital duck:
(I should also note that these people were apparently unmoved by the cherry-blossom festival going on at the same time.)
British graffiti dauber. Hung rouge paintings in MoMA and the Met; ho-hum, seen it before. Title card’s explanation of the work “a beautiful example of the neo post-idiotic style” gets points for effort. But the stencils are unquestionably wonderful.
