Your goal: invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered. I want to see a plot horrific and ridiculous, but just plausible enough to take seriously… Terrorism is a real threat, but we’re not any safer through security measures that require us to correctly guess what the terrorists are going to do next.
Category: Tumbles
Here’s something I worked on for a few hours just to amuse myself. I’d develop it further, but I can’t see how this has any sort of practical use (also note the caveats at the top of the script). So here it is: a web page desaturator. Takes all colors in linked stylesheets and turns them into grayscale versions. Here’s a demo using a page from the Prototype site. Firefox only.
If you have a reputation for being a Machiavellian, you aren’t one. That was Machiavelli’s view, at least. The key to all successful power‐mongers, he argued, is the appearance of innocence, and a reputation for honesty and benevolence. Underneath, of course, you’re stitching the system up. So it doesn’t take a genius to realise that if Niccolo were around today he would laugh heartily at the idea that Karl Rove is a master of the art of ruthless politics.
Junior! The Wendy’s Guy. During my freshman year at UT, I went to this Wendy’s far more often than the Surgeon General would have recommended. Junior is one of my strongest memories of living on the UT campus.
Wow. We got our asses kicked at Bryan’s bowling tournament.
SXSW Interactive starts tomorrow. Truthfully, I have been so busy this last week that I don’t even know which panels I’m going to. But if you’re a fan of JavaScript, you should come see Aaron Gustafson and I talk about block scope, iterator/generators, and other fun stuff that you’ll be able to use someday. (If you’re not a fan of JavaScript, attend something else. You wouldn’t like our panel at all.) And if you see me there, be sure to introduce yourself!
Fortunately, I have a place for my wildly inaccurate and unreasonable screeds. It’s called a “weblog,” or, for short, my “eblo.”
Ben Yehuda, Tel Aviv
Looking down a side street.
Attention bloggers high and low: if you allow me to make comments on your posts, you are entitled to mandate that I write them in whatever crazy moon format you choose: I’m comfortable with Markdown, Textile, or even the ordinary HTML that our ancestors used to use. But if you do not give me a preview button — so that I can make sure my comment looks the way I intended it to look; so that I am warned if you’ve arbitrarily decided to blacklist the blockquote element — I am entitled to reach through the Internet and strangle you.
Talking with Microsoft about IE.next. The things he asked for (mostly JS‐related) were determined (by vote) to be the most critical things for IE to catch up on. I’m optimistic.