Lemur CATTA–commonsensical comment system
Mike Lee, toughest programmer alive, came up with an insanely competent idea for a comments system: Lemur CATTA, which uses reading comprehension to quiz you on the contents of a blog post before you are allowed to comment on it.
Yeah, I know. Seems like some gradeschool teacher—or Kaplan temp—would have come up with this idea [...]
Followup: Paul Potts has One Chance
Well, Simon Cowell wasn’t kidding when he told Paul Potts that he was going to make an album. It was June 17th when the former mobile phone salesman won Britain’s Got Talent by singing opera, melting just about everyone who saw him on TV or YouTube in the process (including myself). His album came out [...]
