Acts of Civil Obedience

5 folks decide to actually drive the speed limit on a Georgia Highway. Much hilarity insues. Not the best edited production ever, but the point is vividly illustrated.

Massive Multi-Player PONG

Via Digg:

Play Pong with hundreds of other people simultaneously. Simply position your cursor where you think the paddle should be and it attempts to average out the inputs. To get some idea of the feedback latency, try positioning your cursor in a 'black' area and notice the splotch of color appear. Woah, what a concept!

Yes, this does indeed appear to be real based on the evolution of the traffic today. I think the server is having trouble dealing will all of the inputs since the ball seems to have aquired a psudo-random speed modification. Still, the concept itself is priceless.

This reminds me a bit of 1-Dimentional Tetris.

Go Blue Team!

Knee-deep

I've been knee-deep, more like chest-deep, in spam this week. If I haven't replied to your email please don't take it personally. I suspect I'll be able to wade out by Friday. I'm still adjusting SpamAssasin's filters to handle the new onslaught and comments will very likely remain 'off' for the foreseeable future.

DHS enforcing porn statutes? LOL

It seems that 2 DHS personnel were a wee bit over-exuberant in their enforcement duties at a local library.

More sadness, but with laughter.

non-Fisa wiretapping in Yahoo email

Congressman Brad Sherman, in very short order (advert + video stream), gets to the heart of the recent NSA Wiretapping and email concerns and touches briefly on the extreme ambiguity as to what constitutes "terrorism suspicion".

The top lawyer at Yahoo, bless his heart, can't answer the question. If he would only just say "I don't know, the rules aren't clear", but instead he falls back on lawyer-speak. Saying essentially that "Yahoo would not break the law".

Sad.

I don't know how long this link will be live since News.com doesn't support perma-linking. Perhaps there's some public link to a transcription available, but I don't have time to track it down at the moment.

Excellent discussion by Janice

A very thoughtful, detailed, and passionate discussion by Janice Fraser at Stanford on life at Adaptive Path, being a leader, and on her career. This is the kind of transparency in communications that I strive for and never, ever, want to lose.

Free speech?

Via Digg:

What appears, quite clearly, to be an overzealous attempt at "enforcement" by DHS personnel. Clearly there's a rather wide region where good taste, common sense, federal regulations, and freedom of speech intersect. It does seem that both sides have crossed the lines. Nevertheless, we should always err on the side of the First Amendment. Sad, just really, really sad.

Famous from NoVa?

During a recent email exchange, an old friend asked me "Do you know anyone who is famous who grew up in NoVA (Northern Virginia)?". Rather to my surprise, I was able to immediately rattle off a few individuals right off the top of my head--all women.

• Mia Hamm who went to my intermediate school (7th and 8th grade) Lake Braddock
• Lauren Graham of the Gilmore Girls who grew up right next door in Centerville, VA
• Sandra Bullock also known these days as Mrs. Jesse James. Sandra attended Key Intermidiate school just up the street from my parent's house.
• Donna Dixon of Busom Buddies fame (she played the blond opposite Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari). Donna's a wee bit more obscure than the others, since she's an almost full-time mom these days, but she's a old family friend and a real class act. These days she's more likely to be known as Mrs. Dan Aykroyd.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled non-entertainment programming...

Nice filter summary

For those seeking to use selective CSS filters on different browsers, here's a great summary chart illustrating which rules execute on which rendering engines. It even includes stuff for IE7 Beta #1.

From one beta to the next

Magnolia private beta just kicked off this evening. I'll let you know how it goes.

What's up w/ the Chuck Norris meme?

Why is Chuck Norris suddenly soooo popular on the meme tracking sites?

Utterly fascinating.

Browse Enron's emails

Based on the URL encoding and doing a bit of hacking by inputing invalid parameters, it looks like this corpus is using the old Infoseek search engine which is written in Python.

Anyways, it seems that, other things aside, Ken Lay didn't pay off some of his un-approved travel expenses before he resigned.

lol

Kiko doesn't speak plain text

Kiko, I know that you're billing yourself as the next generation (read Web 2.0) Ajaxian calendaring solution, but there's simply no reason on earth that your reminder and update emails shouldn't be formatted in plain text. These links can be presently simply in line-blocked format and using right-proper 79 column formatting.

Please note that the actual URLs have been removed from the links. The following is the entirety of their HTML-formatted email:

Someone (hopefully you) signed up with this email address for a calendar on http://www.kiko.com.
If you did not sign up, please ignore this message. Or better yet, use our service anyway by clicking here and changing the password.
If you did sign up, click here to validate your email.

May your day be well planned,
The Kiko Team

Part of being a Web 2.0 company is having the wisdom to know when Web 1.0 technologies are a better fit.

You just lost one more beta user.