If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the transcript of Prof. Rine’s UC Berkeley lecture where he scares the pants of the laptop thief.
The original webcast is here, but you have to skip to 48:50 to see the fun part.
Boing boing has other links.
Via Michelle.
Top 10 reasons not to steal your prof’s laptop. The Political Teen is scared, you can bet others are too.
UPDATE: Brandon calls the Professor’s bluff.
UPDATE 2: While it is now pretty well known that Prof. Rine was stretching the truth a bit in order to get his laptop back, check out this quote on the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award site:
“Facts just aren’t that important,” says Jasper Rine, professor of genetics in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. He recognizes the blasphemous nature of his view, but points out that approximately 300 new papers are published in just his research field every week. “Faced with growth in biological knowledge of this magnitude, I have wrestled with how one is to teach modern and useful biology.”
Lex Icon has some thoughts. Universally Dubious notes that Jasper Rine is not going to be out of town after all. FullosseousFlap has filed it under Humor/Morons.