Linux car crashes

The Linux car crashed and finished dead last at the Indy 500.

The Vista car did not fair much better. The driver complained about the partially inflated tires that he had pit early to fill up the rest of the way, and difficultly in seeing the track through a blue screen.

Legless chihuahuas

First of all, my life is now complete since I have used "legless chihuahuas" as a title for a post.

Check out Google Hot Trends if you get a chance. Pretty cool stuff. Still a work in process though -- on May 21 results included “legless chihuahuas” at 25, and “legless chihuahua” at 36.

Cola 2.0

OK, now there is open source cola under a GNU Public license. Passions run amok.

60 elegant designs

One of my favorite design-focused sites posted their view of the 60 most elegant website designs.

Once I overcame the shock the foulballguy.com was not on the list (buy a freakin' tshirt!), I thought the list was pretty good.

All the sites fall into the emerging web 2.0-ish feel, which strikes me as a meld of Fisher Price and Microsoft clip art with a hard to explain dose of cool.

Not buying it

The Defense department has banned several social networking tools due to bandwidth concerns, not content concerns.

Riiiiiiiiight.

Blogging rules

Interesting read on the concept of regulating blogs. Covers the issues from both sides. I continue to struggle with the "right" to be anonymous. Free speech - I get. But accountability should also be there.

Let everyone be free to say whatever the want -- but have the courage to stand behind your words.

Boo DoD

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/pentagon-blocks-myspace-and-youtube/

For your reading pleasure

Clearly, FierceCIO would only publish material from insightful individuals.

Well, usually.

Today they were willing to include Jeff Grimshaw and me.

http://www.fiercecio.com/node/3760/#part2

IM traffic

There is a pretty cool layer you can add to Google Earth to watch realtime IM traffic. Not sure of the value, but a nice little time waster/mashup

Say Cheese

What did we EVER do without the Internet???

http://cheddarvision.tv/

Numbers game

Hang on past the first few slides on school hardware and you will see some very interesting numbers on China and India.

http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/didyouknow/didyouknow.wmv

Even Zaphod might feel a tad less significant after viewing this.