A tip to those who like to smuggle their drugs using baubles from the holiday season: try to choose the right holiday. For instance, smuggling cocaine in Easter Eggs at Christmas will attract attention.

(a tattoo of ebola, on this guy.)

To us here at the Big Bad Blog, the weirdest thing about the whole Julian Assange thing is the mainstream media’s handling of it. Glenn Greenwald gives a good rundown of it here.

The Banker’s Trade Association has been trying to get Cambridge University to censor a Master’s thesis that highlights security flaws in the chip-and-PIN system used in debit and credit cards. The reply from the University is a beautiful thing.