I don't even know what to think of this article, claiming evidence that military craft brought down flight 93.

Not that I think it was necessarily wrong if it happened, but the coverup would be the next -gate scandal. I mean, if Clinton was impeached for lying about having sex, and not the sex, then what would this be?

For the curious, here's a condensed mp3 of the air-traffic recordings of the flight's last half-hour.

I don't want to be sensationalistic, and I really have no knowledge of the validity of the linked article, but I'm really curious if there's any corroborative evidence out there.

I just realized that I parse HTML subliminally. I got a plain text email with italic tags in it, and I didn't notice until later that I read and interpreted the tags at such a subliminal level that I saw the words themselves as italic.

Freeways and cars have two of the most evloved, iterated, and consistant design patterns around; far more so than computers, or even telephones nowadays. It can be funny how wrong it feels to break the rules.

A long time ago I realized, in the abstract, that a cloverleaf intersection of two highways is basically four line segment connectors and a single clover ribbon (hence the name, of course). I always knew that you could stay on the cloverleaf forever, but only as fiction.

Living in LA, I coined a term (probably only used by me, ever) called the 'Rollo', slang for a freeway U-turn, it stood for "Right, Off, Left, Left, On," and applied when you missed your offramp at a regular freeway exit (as opposed to a cloverleaf), and needed to get off at the next exit and turn around.

A couple years ago I was on Highway 92 East going over 880 (in Hayward) having missed the turn I neded to make, and I wanted to turn around. Using the cloverleaf to go from 92 West to 880 South, and staying to the right in the merge, exited 880 South to emerge on 92 West. Basically half a cloverleaf.

Just under a year ago, I was lucky enough to miss the turnoff from 80 East to 780 South, and in a flash I thought 'now's my chance.' I instead took the right-hand 270-degree onramp to 780 North, stayed in the right lane to come on to 80 West, and exited again to emerge on 780 South. If a 'right' is 90 degrees clockwise, then this was a case of nine rights making a right.

So my challenge, to those who choose to accept it, is to ride the cloverleaf the next time you have the chance. Get on anywhere, and take the ride for a spin once or twice. Don't be surprised if it feels somehow 'wrong,' like driving with contacts after years with glasses, or (second example omitted because this is (more or less) a family show).

Intermediate class: Try riding the clover for 5 minutes. Just don't use a cellphone at the time.

Advanced class: Do it with someone else in the car, like a parent, without explaining what's going on. watch them get inexplicably nervous.

Speaking of regional language differences, I read an article on CNN today, discussing a site's survey about the regional dispursion of 'soda', 'pop', and 'coke' across North America.

An interesting article but their infographic totally ignored the western half of the United States and, true to CNN form, they're pitifully bad about giving links to sites, even when the site is the focus of the article. It's as if there's a mandate to not let people leave CNN.com, so they won't give you external links, or even printed URLs.

Nevertheless, I found the page, so enjoy the data for yourself!

(personally, I'm curious to know who on Earth uses the term 'netizen' (or 'blog-o-sphere' for that matter).)

'Interactive Programming' aka the Director/Lingo, Flash/Actionscript class, to be exact. Yay! The compromise made between the instructor and the two of us still dying to get in is that, as long as the class remains full, we use our laptops instead of the cluster computers in the classroom, but that's a small price to pay. After all, I'd rather work between classes on this computer than a cluster computer anyhow, so not having to shuffle the file between the two daily is actually a plus.

Coming in late, I have to play a little catch-up, but it's worth it, and the assignments that I choose to post on Fury will be much more interesting than the papers for Human Factors, which I'll be dropping. Not that Human Factors isn't a good class, but it's not as entertaining for you, and that's what it's all about!

Kerry raised a good point: All those pages I linked to (yahoo, Amazon, CNN, etc) with 9/11-specific modifications, are of course back to normal now.

Anyone know where someone might have archived some of those? I'm about to check Alexa, but I don't know how frequently it scans.

I'd like to wish a big and joyous happy birthday to Melissa, "someone," Sarah, C.K., Joe, Mac, Cat, Penelope's husband, and Jill's aunt. I hope it's a great one, and a prosperous coming year!

Hey! If it's between 3 and 3:30pm Eastern time Thursday (noon to 12:30pm PDT), remind me to execute my Yahoo stock options! I'm waiting for the last upswing (hope) but if I don't sell them by 4pm they're gone!

Thanks! (Don't get excited, it's like $600.)

I'm so deadened to online advertising that I'd been reading articles on CNN for almost an hour before I noticed they replaced all their advertising with candles.

On the Yahoo front, they also took off advertising, turned it monochrome, and made a very nice rememberance site.

If you've ever accidentally confused the 'forward' and 'reply' buttons, you'll know just how embarassing it can be.

This reminds me of the time (about 8 years ago) when I shyly asked a girl I liked in the office to lunch, and accidentally sent it to the whole company.