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I remember seeing the photo above on Flickr once, and having my brain melt slightly from trying to figure out what went wrong.

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UCSF IT staff detected a security incident that occurred in a limited part of the UCSF School of Medicine’s IT environment on June 1.

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He was also a founder of New York magazine, created a memorable Bob Dylan poster and produced designs for everything from supermarkets to restaurants to “Mad Men.”