Finally, a chance to scare the bejesus out of nighttime boaters everywhere. Stick this gigantic inflatable iceberg out at the end of your dock and listen for midnight fishermen to scream in horror as they find themselves floating brake-lessly towards what they can only imagine to be a Titanic-like fate.

During the daytime the “Iceberg Floating Climbing Wall and Water Slide” is simply the next evolution in lakeshore eyesores, easily usurping those giant trampolines that offer little to no actual bounce. The price is right, too, at a whopping $5399 from Overstock. You’ll send a clear message to all the other cabins on the lake: “My kids are spoiled rotten thanks to my almost endless supply of disposable income.”

Ugly, but fun!

Floating iceberg lake toy!

Lets see, The Alpharetta campus we has an entire 1st floor of a building completely mothballed: Its full of cubes and is already wired for electrical, network, and telephone. BUT, instead you using what we have, we bring in a entire construction crew for 3 weeks to retrofit storage rooms and a server room into *more* workspace with cubes?

You cut my salary 5% and then spend money so wasteful? No. Fuck You. You *Don't* Care.

Even as Google grows bigger and bigger, its developers continue to slip little Easter eggs into their applications. It’s never anything huge - just little inside jokes which serve as a reminder that there are living, breathing people behind the otherwise faceless applications.

As Blogoscoped points out, one of these people has infused a bit of gamer lore into Google Reader. Log in, make sure you’re at the “Home” page in reader, and punch in the oft-celebrated Konami code: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A

This is fun, but makes it kind of hard to read your list of feeds...

Google hearts the Konami code

The attacks of 9-11 challenged our country in new ways. But perhaps the biggest challenge was whether we would safeguard both our country and our Constitutional heritage or whether we would have weak leaders who were unable to protect the country without sacrificing our freedoms.

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In other words, we are being asked to become something other than the strong America that could promote innovation and safeguard privacy that could protect the country and its Constitutional traditions. We are being asked to become a weak nation that accepts surveillance without accountability that cannot defend both security and freedom.

That is a position we must reject. If we agree to reduce our expectation of privacy, we will erode our Constitutional democracy.

Excellent essay.

Marc Rotenberg: Privacy vs. Security? Privacy.

Last year, when law professor Joel Reidenberg wanted to show his Fordham University class how readily private information is available on the Internet, he assigned a group project. It was collecting personal information from the Web about himself.

This year, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made public comments that seemingly may have questioned the need for more protection of private information, Reidenberg assigned the same project. Except this time Scalia was the subject, the prof explains to the ABA Journal in a telephone interview.

His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.

Privacy, Scalia, and the best class assignment ever

... ... ... Holy shit.

I enjoyed earlier views of Photosynth, but this is without a doubt the sexiest thing I've seen come out of Microsoft in *years*. Wow. Good job!

Microsoft Photosynth integration into Virtual Earth marks commercial availability

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Get ready to soil your plants in an all-new action-strategy game from PopCap! A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.

Each zombie has its own special skills, so you’ll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds… as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!

Plants vs Zombies™ Official Site - PopCap Games - Free Download Games

Steve: "The new name for HTTP is GFBP: Generic Firewall Bypass Protocol."

* Chuck Norris does not mark to market. The market marks to Chuck.

* Chuck Norris does not go bankrupt. Chuck Norris ruptures banks.

* Source of hedge fund survivorship bias?: Funds that pay Chuck Norris 2 and 20 survive; others don’t.

* Private equity: Chuck Norris does not believe in leverage. Chuck Norris believes in crowbars.

* Investment banking: No-one defers Chuck Norris’s compensation.

* Capital structure: No-one subordinates Chuck Norris. All his equity is preferred.

* If Chuck Norris devised the bank stress tests, not even the Treasury Department would survive.

Chuck Norris & Finances