08.18.08
Smart car sighting
08.17.08
The Most Admired Journalist in America
From the NY Times:
When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that “ ‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue” and “getting people to think critically about the public square.”
And the headline is priceless…
08.13.08
Who invades us will be killed!
We’ve seen quite a few interesting things from China’s government and the Olympic planning committee, but this one is not too surprising…
From MaoXian:
It’s worth noting that the “Hymn to the Motherland” sung (er, lip-synched) at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics was abbreviated, in part cutting out this key stanza:
The sun is rising in the East,
The People’s Republic is growing up,
Our leader Mao Zedong,
Is leading us forward.
Our life is getting better every day,
Our future is forever bright.This line was also not included:
Who invades us will be killed!
If anyone can improve on my rough translation, please leave a comment and I’ll update the post later.
Russian Cyber Warfare
From Stratfor…
The Georgian news Web site Civil.ge claims that it is “under permanent DDOS attack,” referring to a distributed denial of service attack that attempts to overwhelm a server’s capacity. After assistance from Google and Estonian computer security experts, it is now being hosted temporarily on a Blogspot account.
While Cyber Warfare is not a new concept, this sounds like the first time switching your government’s website to Blogspot was the strategic response…
08.12.08
Cool Speakers
Neat… the latest version of the iPod alarm clock rotates with your iPod Touch… so you can watch your videos while the iPod is in landscape mode.
Note that it’s not for iPhones…
07.16.08
Wordle
Create a pretty word cloud quickly and easily with Wordle. I created the following with the RSS feed for Tasgall.com.
This one is from a piece of code I picked at random.
Note: Java required.