Stan Jones, Libertarian candidate for Montana, is blue. Literally.
He turned his skin blue by drinking colloidal silver, which he believed would protect him against the diseases which would undoubtedly ravage the planet following the Y2K disaster.
No word yet on whether his hat is lined with tinfoil.
One of the systems I work on is a forum where people post questions about products. After 48 hours, it’s possible to escalate a question to product management. If you try to hit the button before that, you get a message explaining that it’s too soon.
So far, nobody has commented on the fact that the dialog box for the error message is titled “Premature Escalation”.
I have great admiration for the guys at MIT who have come up with a way to make duplication-proof physical authentication tokens that are robust and cost pennies each.
On a related note, MIT is starting to make all its course materials available free online.
Which reminds me, it’s too long since I last browsed the MIT bookstore on the way home…