In recognition of Ze Frank's last show, I wanted to link to what I think is the funniest moment from any of his shows: Scrabble. Watch that, and I dare you to not laugh out loud about halfway through (you'll know when it's time).

Busted...

Somebody e-mailed me this satirical article about Digg's userbase revolting, which "quotes" me talking about Kevin Rose defacing my blog. I'm undecided as to whether it's actually funny, but I did like this bit:

"What, is our Alexa ranking gonna drop from 73 to 74?" said Digg CEO Jay Adelson. "You know, for every 30-something who decides he's got something better to do than digg a couple hundred stories a day, there's a 15-year-old kid willing to skip his homework and take care of that for us. We're not worried."

Had I read that quote in any other context, I probably would have reluctantly believed that Jay said it.

This morning, Digg removed ranking information from user profiles. I commented on the story, pointing to my top users list for people who were still interested in their rank. Digg CEO Jay Adelson responded to my comment thusly:

"We no longer display that rank information, so don't be surprised if Chris's list is no longer accurate (or stays unchanged). (A Netscape developer?)"

Well, my list has been updated since then, so we can safely assume that I wasn't using that information (which I've said from the beginning). As long as Digg displays the name of the user that submitted each story, it will be trivial to determine the top users. I'll continue to aggregate the data until I'm forced by Digg (or asked nicely, with a "pretty please") to take it down.

Side note: I love the "(A Netscape developer?)" parenthetical that Jay included. I'm not sure of its meaning though. Is it "How did a Netscape developer manage to crack our code and get this information?" or is it "Netscape has developers now?" In any case, it's irrelevant, but I still laughed.

Google sees me for who I really am.