Some links:

• No wonder Airbus is having trouble: Rabbit outruns A380.
• An NYT article on online mobs in China enforcing "morality": Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China: It was just the latest example of a growing phenomenon the Chinese call Internet hunting, in which morality lessons are administered by online throngs and where anonymous Web users come together to investigate others and mete out punishment for offenses real and imagined.
• I'm not sure I'd call it an online mob, but a U.S. example of using group action to find, avenge, retaliate against the theft of a Sidekick: How NOT to steal a SideKick II, with coverage at news.com, Brighthand reviews and Gothamist.
• A video of the Beatles perfoming Pyramus and Thisbe from Midsummer Night's Dream, allegedly circa 1964. There seems to be a fifth Beatle in this video, I don't know who it is (I don't think it's Pete Best)
• Canvas for Wordpress looks intersting, a wysiwyg? template designer for Wordpress. Not sure I'll find it useful as I'm sticking with MovableType for now. Lethargy, momentum, intense desire not to change something that works.
• Apparently, the easiest way to hack into someone's computer network is to leave a USB key in a parking lot. White Hat hackers left several USB security keys strewn about a credit union parking lot and waited for the employees to pick them up. Sure enough, they picked them up and plugged them into their computers, unwittingly running several programs to track keystrokes, passwords, etc.
• Someone forwarded me this link for a CFP for Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society.
• Chet forwarded a link to a somewhat scary Folger's video which in turn promotes this site toleratemornings.com.

In other news...I had lunch with Pete Fiorese last week. I may have found one Rupert Murdoch enterprise that I can tolerate, the Fox Sports Grill at the Palisades Center Mall (all sets were tuned to either the World Cup, or the Yankees game). I have yet to write up anything about our Ireland hiking trip and will either do so today or just accept defeat and move on.

I'm really taken by both Rocketboom and Ze Frank's The Show (which was written up in the weekend NYT: And You're So Funny? Write My Script). They're short, quirky, probably geared to a 20-something edging-into-30 something audience (my immaturity lets me pretend I'm in one of those audiences). Rocketboom is commercial, I don't know how much they make from sponsors, but they've signed a deal to be syndicated via Tivo which I think is a potentially big deal. If Tivo can come up with a way to allow Tivoids to subscribe to video-blogs (syndicated video clips) that minimizes hassle, then I think they'll have nailed the next-big-thing in entertainment distribution. The tools and technology are now within reach for people to create slick videos with high production values. The killer for personally-distributed video has been bandwidth. If you combine syndication with a distribution platform like Tivo you may have solved both the ease-of-use problem (I was surprised to find that iTunes can't play the video downloaded from Rocketboom, it only supports transferring to an iPod I guess) and the distribution problem.

Next weekend we plan to road trip to City of Sin, Poughkeepsie for a play date for Frisket with Danté and Mina.

Several projects I'm working on are still stewing on the stove, I'm trying now to launch stuff on or around the 1^st of July 2006. But you all know how flexible my concept of time is.

And for the throngs who've begged, pleaded, chided, and scolded me to go to a dermatologist: I have an appointment scheduled for Thursday.