New Windsor - What, some might ask Jessica Sherer, is with the giant snow penis she built on her boyfriend's lawn this week?

I had to meme this because of the title alone. The rest of the story is mediocre at best. But the end has one last quote that is meme worthy.

Biasotti worries the display might give others ideas. "Now we're going to get snow penises popping up all over town," he said.

Police whack giant snow penis

AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently than those of their competitors.

First open salvo in this war.

Telecoms want their products to travel on a faster Internet

Neuroscience research has already shown that the visual cortex of even adult blind people can become responsive to sound, and sound-induced illusory flashes can be evoked in most sighted people. The vOICe technology may now build on this with live video from a head-mounted camera encoded in sound.

Hmm... this could be fun to play with from a musical perspective. What 'music' does this space sound like?

Seeing with Sound - The vOICe

Look Daddy, I done blowed it up!

Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot - Google Video

The step after that is technical obstructionism -- traffic shaping and other techniques to disadvantage the Yahoos and the Googles. That's where those shipping container data centers come in. Parked at the peering point, sitting on the same SONET ring as the local telephone company, Google will have done as much as it possibly can to reduce any network disadvantage. By leveraging its own fiber backbone Google not only further avoids such interference, it has a chance to gain a step or two through better routing or more generous backbone provisioning. What's stored IN the data centers is important, but how they are CONNECTED is equally important.

Already happening!

I, Cringely - The Sweet Spot

Powered by your mac or pc, you'll have hours of flying fun with these USB air darts. Let the mission begin!

Best USB peripheral evar!

USB Powered Air Darts - Marks & Spencer

Welcome to the world of Deflexion, the game that combines lasers with classic strategy for an experience enjoyed by players of all ages. Players alternate turns moving Egyptian themed mirrored pieces around the playing field after which they fire their low powered laser diode with the goal of illuminating their opponent's pieces to eliminate them from the game.

Cool!

Deflexion

A federation is an association of organizations that use a common set of attributes, practices, and policies to exchange information about their users and resources in order to enable secure, authenticated collaborations and transactions. In a sense, a federation is like a village, but it is not geographically defined. In Internet2, we now have global federations of scientists, artists, and students working on joint projects. I believe that in the future, trusted communities and federations will enable Internet users to receive only the information they want, and because communication must be authenticated, all unwanted information can be easily traced back to its true source, eliminating the anonymity of spammers and scammers.

Indeed. Trust, reputation, and credibility will be the keys to greasing the wheels of everything. Unfortunately, I don't see them gaining traction without weakening privacy and liberty.

Next-Generation Networks

"To be able to share a week in the NHL with your dad is an absolutely phenomenal thing," Babcock said.

Awesome! What a great idea!

Dads invited to join Wings on road

John T. Unger, an artist and longtime commenter on Collision Detection, recently announced an intriguing art project called "American Guernica: A Call for Guerilla Public Art". He's calling upon artists nationwide to post replicas of Guernica, Picasso's famous antiwar painting, on billboards and the sides of buildings -- as in the Photoshopped example above.

I think I'm going to have a few dozen stickers of this work printed up.

American Guernica