A few days ago I came across DJ BC's Beastles mixes, which is the Beastie Boys mixed over Beatles samples. Nicely done, but I'm somewhat less impressed because I know which Beastie tracks can be found a capella. *grin*

http://halley.lunarpages.com/~djbc002/beastles/

If you're providing large-scale commercial service (even if it's for free), users absolutely do demand that you filter out all the bad stuff and leave in all the good stuff without their having to exert any effort...and unless they're looking, they only notice when you make a mistake.

This has been leading me to think about e-mail in somewhat of a new way -- it hasn't been good vs. bad for a long time, but even adding a middle option isn't enough. These days I'm thinking that there are two binary options: good/not good and bad/not bad. From a system-wide perspective, either bit may be set independantly for any given message -- so yes, a message can be both good and bad at the same time.

Today marks the start of my third week as a Product Manager with Yahoo, working on anti-spam stuff for Yahoo! Mail. I sit next to Miles Libbey.

Yahoo is fun, very purple, good coffee, plays well with others, and there's a lot of interesting stuff happening here.