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I don’t understand this question… AJAX is shorthand for tools and design practices that allow the user to interact with the server without reloading an entire web page. A good example is the kind of interface provided in Gmail, where message information is loaded into the interface without needing to reload every element on the page. To say that AJAX increases server load would indicate that AJAX is creating some sort of server transaction that didn’t exist before. Let’s see, what is AJAX used for? A person clicks on a link…the browser requests information from the server…the server interprets the request, pulls the data, and sends it back…the browser interprets the code and displays it. ...

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy, reaches out and touches high-school students in North Carolina. No, not that way… Turns out a Rockingham County High School English class noticed the film The Tragedy of Macbeth was produced by Hefner back in 1971. They were watching the film on an old television set, so students joked that Hefner could buy them a new TV. The teacher wrote a letter to Hefner asking for a new TV. The letter signed by the students and sent to the Playboy Mansion and the Chicago headquarters. Two weeks later, a new 32-inch TV was on the way. ...

The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to officials in Raleigh, Clayton, Pittsboro, and Chatham County, NC, pointing out that official prayers at council meetings that refer to specific religions are a violation of the First Amendment. I like the ACLU for a lot of their work, but in this case I have to wonder what they’re thinking. Official prayers before governmental meetings have been a long tradition, and many bodies handle it by bringing in clergy from different religions. Those clergy then sometimes do a very generic prayer, or they might take the opportunity to “sell” their faith. (Of course, in some religious beliefs, it is hard to imagine how one would say a “neutral” prayer.) ...

Ah, Rasheed… :) (Number 19 of the NBA 101.)

There is a site called My Heritage that tries to match your face to celebrity faces using face-recogntion technology on a photo you upload. My number 1 face-match? Andre Agassi. Oh well, we were both born in 1970, so you figure the aging process might have worked similarly. (Except for the hair.) :) Top nine (they gave me nine): Agassi George Clooney (That’s flattering. Maybe the gray hair?) Bryan Adams (Yep, aging ’80s rocker.) Josh Jackson (Dawson’s Creek.) Carl Lewis (Huh?) Charlie Chaplin (I thought it was supposed to be face recognition, not height recognition.) Laurence Fishburne (I wish.) Gary Cooper (Ditto.) Justin Timberlake (One of these things is not like the other.) Link courtesy of Best Week Ever Blog ...

Pretty self-explanatory. Link courtesy of Dave Barry’s Blog.

Ninjas vs. Pirates The ATF! What’s this country coming to, when a good Methodist ninja can’t run across campus without the feds hasslin’ him?

It’s alive. Good overview at TechCrunch.

I didn’t watch baseball that much when I was a kid, but when I started watching, I was a Red Sox fan. I don’t know why, since my dad liked the Braves. It made it pretty exciting when the Red Sox played the Mets in the World Series in 1986. Neither my dad nor I liked the Mets at all, and here were the Sox with a chance to break the curse and win the World Series. ...

Well, congratulations, Bush Administration. You’ve officially made it to the point where the first question in a press conference, from veteran reporter Helen Thomas, was “Is the U.S. going to attack Iran?”