Impedance Mismatch over HTTP

Source: Japan’s Record-Breaking Commuter Train

Another example that confirms that education and stature do not form a good barometer for common sense.

Story: The fire department’s new Muslim chaplain abruptly resigned Friday after saying in a published interview that he believes something other than al-Qaida hijackers brought down the World Trade Center.

Excerpt:

Scoppetta said Habib, who was educated in Islamic law in Saudi Arabia and preaches at a New York mosque, had appeared qualified and passed a background check.

Habib made his comments after Newsday asked him whether he thought firefighters would object to a chaplain trained in Saudi Arabia. The country was home to 15 of the 19 men who hijacked four jets on Sept. 11, 2001, crashed two of them into the trade center towers and one into the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.

“There are so many conflicting reports about it,” the newspaper quoted Habib as saying. “I don’t believe it was 19 … hijackers who did those attacks.” He said he didn’t know who was responsible for the attacks.

Source: yahoo news

I was browsing Anna Lee Newitz’s column on Alternet and found a reference to dodgeball.com.

I had heard of the “locate ipods containing similar music” concept and I guess this is the mobile phone version of it.

Dodgeball is an exact opposite of privacy as your location is always scanned and notified to other friends in the vicinity so that you can meet up.

I wonder what kinda interesting applications can come out of this. It is definitely fun and happening for teeny boppers and social butterflies.

I guess this is the first time I have seen a company take interest in swarm intelligence. It actually makes for a very interesting networking problem and an experiment in social behaviour and formation of communities. One can also study how leaders emerge in a group and how they change the networking patterns.

And as the world turns..

I hope you don’t throw up. Here is Shahrukh doing a Sean Penn.

empower people with smiles. As long as I can provide two hours of complete fun, I’m happy. Maybe I only reach inside, make you mushy or soft on emotion but I promise to make it so basic that it becomes the most prominent. I love to be sweetly mushy and want all my audience to smile in relief, at inane stuff or smile. If for two hours, I can make them forget that they had to wade for two hours to reach home during the Mumbai floods, I’m happy. I’ve done my job of empowering them to smile.

Make no mistake, I stand for empowerment of escapism.

I rest my case