[9fans] Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig? The hidden conspiracy revealed at last....

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

Today, I noticed something for perhaps the fifth time, yet it only just
registered.  While listening to the strains of, ``TV Casualty'', I
happened to glance at the back of the Misfits album I was listening to
(Legacy of Brutality, highly recommended if you have the means), and
spot a familiar looking bit of text highly reminiscent of our favorite
operating system:  ``plan 9'' appears in the lower center portion of
the back of the CD jewel box.

Now, why is this?  Could it be that Rob Pike and Glenn Danzig were
colluding on operating systems research at the time?  Did Rob somehow
financed or otherwise influenced the musical direction of the Misfits?
Granted, they came well before Plan 9 from Bell Labs, but still, some
clues in the lyrics are striking.  Consider this line from, ``where
eagles dare'': ``We walk the streets at night, we go where eagles
dare!'' Indeed, hasn't Plan 9 gone where eagles dare in terms of
pushing some simple primitives to their limits?

Coincidence?  I think not.

	- Dan C.