New photos, hard drives, New Guinea linguistics, chess and strippers,

• I love this headline: Young chess prodigy runs away, lives with stripper.
• Here are some new flickr photos from me:
  
  
• A fellow tech just told me something rather funny. He was speaking to a guy that started defragging his hard drive (Win XP) just before leaving work. He would then take the laptop with him and put it on the seat next to him as he drove home and the defrag worked away. Ouch. Poor hard drive.
• Far Outliers has a rather nice blog entry about his linguistic dissertation and fieldwork in New Guinea.