William Sloane Coffin

Rest in peace.

Star Trek 2.0: great riff on Web 2.0

Tim O'Reilly and pals are making a big deal of "Web 2.0" to the point where everyone talks about it although no one knows exactly what it means. The folks at the G4 television network -- the cable TV channel that swallowed TechTV -- are having some fun with Star Trek 2.0.

I especially like the Spock Market.

Witches Parking

Spied on a bumper in East Lansing:

01 02 03 04 05 06

OK, enough people have sent this factoid to me so as to make it incumbent to note this in my blog before the amazing event transpires:

On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't happen again for 1000 years.

The Official 2006 Google April Fool's Joke: Google Romance

Google has launched its annual April Fool's joke: Google Romance. Google's home page declares:

New! Dating is a search problem. Solve it with Google Romance.

It's pretty darn funny - worth taking the Tour. I especially like this feature: Post multiple profiles witha bulk upload file, you sleaze

Nobody beats Google at crafting a great April Fool's Joke. If only Google would pay as much attention to making Google News a trustworthy news aggregator.

See http://www.google.com/romance/