The results of the XKCD color name survey have been blogged in many places, but I haven’t seen anyone pick up on this yet:
A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.
My faith in humanity is temporarily restored.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Harvey Milk’s bullhorn, and the NYT finally picks up on the “new moonshine” trend.
Also in the NYT: CBS was losing so much money on the NCAA basketball tournament, they actually considered paying ESPN to take over broadcast rights. I’ve wondered for a while now if the current model of payments for sporting events rights can be sustained; this is more evidence that the answer is “No”.
Obit watch: Ernie Harwell.
Edited to add: Patrick Beach, one of the Statesman‘s best writers, interviews Dan Aykroyd about Crystal Head vodka.
The juice is made with Canadian wheat and corn (the latter giving it a suggestion of sweetness), with water from the glacial aquifers of Newfoundland. It’s quadruple distilled, then filtered through charcoal and Herkimer diamonds — quartz crystals, actually, from upstate New York. It’s also certified kosher.
So there’s non-kosher vodka? What do they do; filter it through pig intestines?
I downloaded the raw results. I want to know what color or colors were named ‘Penis’.
These are the things that keep me up at night.
I had not considered this idea, Joe, until you brought it up.
Now that you mention it, though, I’ve got mySQL installed on Project e, and should have a SQL Server 2005 VM installed on it tonight. (VirtualBox rules.) This might be a fun exercise.