Social Software

Always a good read, Clay Shirky has a new piece out entitled, Social Software and the Politics of Groups. As someone who spends no small amount of time working on developing online political communities, this is definitely food for my thought.

A Good Geek

Eariler today, when doing a little web development work on my laptop, I accidentally typed "locahost" instead of "localhost". So instead of accessing the website that sits locally on my machine, I zoomed off to www.locahost.com. And surprise, surprise, there is indeed a website there. And a helpful one at that. Thank you, Sam-I-Am.

Nothing Better to Do?

You'd think that with a war on the horizon and the economy in shambles, Congress would have plenty to keep it busy. But apparently the House has managed to find time to address another vitally important issue: revising the cafeteria menu.

The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.

Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom toast."

The name changes were spearheaded by two Republican lawmakers who held a news conference Tuesday to make the name changes official on the menus.

Incroyable.