Punxsutawney Jesus

Found another funny joke, this one about Easter (and I found it on Easter!) Here is the "real" meaning of Easter:

http://starbirdcanada.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/the-real-meaning-of-easter/

Can Yahoo make the semantic web a widespread reality?

I've been working in the semantic web area (specifically related to life sciences) for several years now but I and the people I worked with always harbored doubts about the likelihood of the semantic web really taking off and becoming widely used. A key problem is that it was hard to see a clear "killer app" for the semantic web. Generating data using semantic web standards such as RDF and OWL can be a pain and what is the payoff for users to do it? Well, Yahoo has just announced that they are going to be supporting semantic web related standards in a big way, and it is possible they could become this killer app. Here is the relevant post from the Yahoo search blog:

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000527.html

I've even seen some posts on other blogs speculating that this is the main reason Yahoo is holding out against Microsoft's takeover bid --- they see this new emphasis on the semantic web as a crucial way they can compete with Google and thus want to go it alone.

A chat with Barack Obama while he was still a relatively normal guy.

Just saw this on Marc Andreesen's blog:

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/03/an-hour-and-a-h.html

He had the chance to meet and talk for an hour and a half with Barack Obama over a year ago, before his campaign went into overdrive and he became so well known. Interesting. Makes me feel better about him being the likely democratic nominee for president.