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sbp: """You may be asking yourself what the point is there to diving or falling intentionally down a flight of stairs. The simple answer is that there is no point, that one throws themselves down a flight of stairs simply to entertain others."""
AaronSw: man, this page makes me want to jump down the stairs

AaronSw: By Dan Bricklin
AaronSw: """Imagine "reprogrammed" and "enhanced" Segways, with the expert rider able to call up different crafted behaviors at the push of a button, with extra accelerometers on their heads, legs, and arms, competing with stunts that would look like they were special effects in Crouching Tiger."""
AaronSw: Heh, I like this comic.

AaronSw: Zeldman is the man!

AaronSw: Perhaps it's just me, but it seems like concerns about spam are spiling recently. There's this article, plus comments from Dave, Wes, Cam, etc.
AaronSw: I'm hopeful that technologies like the Plex will help with these problems. In the Plex, you'll likely only accept email from folks whoare
AaronSw: part of your trust network. Even then, if it's a mass mailing it'll be correlated with others opinions of its importance.
AaronSw: Personally, I've redirected all messages from emailing lists to a folder which I really never read anymore. Spam was never much a problem with me, I deleted it all quickly, but it does seem to be getting worse. I report all spams to Vipul's Razor with an Entourage Plug-in I wrote.
AaronSw: I've also had my email blocked by HP recently, due to some vicious filters there. They didn't like the fact that my account name was only two characters long ('me'). Sheesh.
AaronSw: Of course they quickly fixed it.

sbp: Q: "Does BrainFuck.Net use the controversial Microsoft Passport system for authentication?"
sbp: A: "No. The Brainfuck language has only 8 commands, and none of them are related to authenticating remote network users."
sbp: I await a Befunge port...