April 15, 2004

Phish Out of Water

Having eclipsed Howard Dean to once again become Vermont’s most popular export, Phish has announced the dates for their annual summer tour. The run will kick off at Coney Island in Brooklyn in June, though I’m thinking that if I can’t get tickets to that one I’ll be sitting this tour out.

Although, it would be kind of cool if they followed the Keyspan Park concerts with a nationwide tour of minor-league ballparks, sort of like Springsteen’s mini-tour of MLB stadiums last summer.

Speaking of phish, something I’ve been writing about a lot lately in my day job is phishing. You know those e-mail scams you sometimes get that have a fake interface for AOL, or 1-800 Flowers, and it asks you for your credit card number? That’s called “phishing,” with the name being derived from hacker slang (the ancient phone-hacking genre that was its predecessor was called “phone phreaking,” and it survived the translation.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 15, 2004 05:57 PM
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