Can you believe the fine folks at Google drove through my hometown of Fauquier? You know that small little Kootenay town of 200 residence? Check it out:

Street View of Fauquier

So myself along with friends Jordan and Oliver have started something that is starting to pickup some traction. We have been organizing sessions of Capture the Flag in the city which we dubbed Urban Capture the Flag. We had an initial “beta” match which worked out really well, then our official launch last week. Both were a lot of fun, and everyone involved seemed to really love it. Anyway this is just my quick little “introducing” email to what we have been up to. Just put a blog today for it, so go check it out at http://www.urbanctf.org/. if you are interested in playing be sure to let us know. We are always looking for more players.

Paul Krugman on the recent AIG debacle:

This was bad analysis, bad policy, and terrible politics. This administration, elected on the promise of change, has already managed, in an astonishingly short time, to create the impression that it’s owned by the wheeler-dealers. And that leaves it with no ability to counter crude populism.

Read the full post on his blog: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/aig/

While very unscientific, and probably extremely culturally biased, this is still pretty funny:

http://beatcrave.com/2009-03-03/music-that-makes-you-dumb/