If you call up a shell and do:
host -t AAAA caffeinatedcode.com
or
dig +short AAAA caffeinatedcode.com
you'll see that caffeinatedcode.com has IPv6 address 2607:f358:1a:1a:5000:1::
Happy IPv6 Day. Hopefully you're viewing this site over IPv6 with a supporting ISP.
Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around The World from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
Time for a different kind of engineering. Not software, but beautifully constructed nonetheless. At first I didn't see what was going on with this video. But then I realized it's from worldwide asynchronous sources.
Let the record show that Big Brother was established by us, the mobile camera-wielding public. In response to all the would-be police brutality videos captured by anyone with a phone, San Jose has started their own CYA program to document and record all interactions using TASER AXON video recording technology.
When we wonder how we got to a world where someone's always watching, blame ourselves. Think about it. How does someone monitoring you change your true behavior? Is this for the better? Welcome 1984
If you cannot see embedded video, download it here: http://serve.castfire.com/video/181873/181873_2009-10-26-233050.mp4
Congratulations to Outspokes for a successful launch on Sept 15, and the cool demos in the Demo Pit of TechCrunch 50.
For those not familiar, let me quote their site:
With Outspokes, you instantly gather the feedback of your entire team by doing nothing more than sending them a link to your site. No more arduous screenshot annotation or endless email ping-pong. Empower your team to express their feedback about your website the easy way: on the site itself.
I've beta tested it, and thought the web application service quite impressive. The ability to collaboratively change elements and annotate while looking at the live site is something I've never considered and yet so common sense. And, just like any Google widget, it takes only a line of html code to enable it for almost any website. At TechCrunch 50, I overheard one attendee say, "When working with webdesigners on my site, I'd have to take a screen shot, copy that into a Powerpoint, then add highlights and comments for what I'd want changed."
With Outspokes, you can directly receive site feedback from QA, beta-testers, developers, designers, and even marketing without burdening anyone with screen shots or mockups. Change the look-and-feel, report bugs, modify text formatting, add comments, and even agree or disagree with other users' feedback.
So why do I post about it? I once worked with one of the founders, Jerry Cheung, at UC Berkeley (I hope to say that often in the future when he's famous). I am amazed that co-founder Arthur Klepchukov's CS 169 software project has taken off into its own company. I wish them success in their new startup, and encourage you to incorporate Outspokes if you have any kind of website.
Unix time, the time calculated as seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC (not counting leap seconds), will reach 1234567890 today at 15:31:30 PST. This is a momentous event for geeks worldwide, but I highly doubt many will notice except for a small number of L337 tech people.
BTW, unix time 1234554321 lapsed earlier today at 11:45:21 PST.
Before the Internet, there was an effort to distribute news to the 2000 or so home computer owners in the Bay Area. It only took over 2 hours to download an entire newspaper over the phone at a $5.00 per hour usage charge, now that's tech!
