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Redneck Olympics

• Doves released during opening ceremonies are promptly shot by the crowd and sold as concession snacks.
• In an amazing coincidence, every proposed Olympic venue turns out to be owned by the Governor.
• The big event is the 100m Sisterchase.
• Instead of shooting at boring targets, archers take aim at muskrats and ATF agents.
• Urine drug test transformed into "Distance Pissin Competition."
• Olympic Village replaced with Olympic Trailer Park.
• Awards of gold, silver and bronze medals replaced by award of gold, silver, and bronze teeth.
• Opening Ceremony is a Skynyrd tape and a trunk full of bottle rockets.
• Hometown favorites falter in gymnastics competitions due to all them extra toes.
• Two words: Billy Bobsledding.

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The Olympics: By The Numbers

• Number of events: 271
• Number of events left once you eliminate all the mutant sports like synchronized kayaking: Maybe 6
• TV audience: (counting everybody on earth 7 times) 35 billion
• Number of molecules in a single grain of salt: 470 trillion
• Number of times the average American will see an Olympic-related TV commercial that will attempt to equate an activity such as pole vault with an activity such as shrinking swollen hemorrhoidal tissue: 2,537
• Total number of people who will come to Greece this summer: 17 million
• Total available parking spaces: 4

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Mobilezed

I just created a mobile version of my Linkblog.

Nothing too fancy. I tried to keep it as simple as I could. Thanks to Jim and Russ for the assistance.

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Olympics We've been watching the Olympics, off and on. Just as it did last time, NBC's coverage sucks. I'm so tired of watching an event where the US competitor is dead last and hearing about all of the reasons why that is. How about commenting on the athlete who is actually winning? Is that too much to ask? We're so lucky to have CBC out here.

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mOlympics

Russ has launched mOlympics.com. If you're looking for Olympics news for your mobile devices, look no further.

SP2

I've installed XP SP2 a couple days ago, so far so good.

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Collateral

We went to see Collateral over the weekend.

JDocs

Javalobby just introduced JDocs.com, a central searchable repository for Javadocs. I've been waiting for something like that for years.

I have dozens of APIs stored on one of my server, and use Javadoc-Search to index and search them. JDocs.com makes the whole process so much easier. It's just brilliant.

As soon as Rick showed me the first implementation of JDocs, I went to work on a simple FireFox/Mozilla Search Plugin. You can download/install it directly from the JDocs.com home page.

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SherlockRSS

While working on my Linkblog's Sherlock Channel, I realized that I would be extremely easy to hack together a RSS viewer in Sherlock. So I did.

Introducing…

Why wait for Safari RSS when Sherlock can do it today?

The good stuff…

Since Sherlock support subscribing to channels via a URL, anybody can instantly make use of SherlockRSS. For example, to view my feed, I would simply point to the following link:

sherlock://erik.thauvin.net/download/SherlockRSS/SherlockRSS.xml?
action=add&subscribe&query=http://feeds.thauvin.net/ethauvin

No installation required. Sherlock will do all the work. How's that for simple?

The source is open. Someone (with a lot of time to spare) could easily implement all kind of custom functionality.

The not so good stuff…

It is a quick hack. It only works with RSS, no RDF or Atom support. There is no ways to manage or store feeds. Etc., etc., etc…

Why? Oh Why?

I find it quite interesting that Apple would choose to only implement RSS support in Safari. Seems to me that the Sherlock channel subscription model is a perfect fit for content syndication. Why not simply let people subscribe to feeds via Safari, and use Sherlock as a viewer/manager?

Then again, Sherlock is probably one of the most interesting, yet under-utilized technology, Apple ever came up with.