When I went, I went along with "old blood." As late (or early) as 2003, the "elites" had disdain for all the "new blood" trash that was amassing. The "elites" had reminisced about the old days when only handfuls would gather and do crazy things like shoot fully automatic machine guns in the desert. Somehow they couldn't put it through their heads that large numbers of people have no sense of either collective or individual responsibility and thus have to be policed.

To me, there is no "radical self expression, self-reliance, creativity and freedom" in this event any longer; however, there are a few *individuals* who have those traits, but all others are audience. The CYA agreement just reaffirms their identity as a corporation.

This wouldn't be a question of data entry. In most cases, the data is already there. All you need is a way to connect it. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau has a list of neighborhoods and their polygonal borders.

Now, the CS students in your reference would simply apply a PIP (point-in-polygon) algorithm to see which neighborhood a particular lat, lon coordinate belongs to.

And since that's computationally intensive, the CS "students" would have to know a bit about optimization - including quad trees, and so forth. Bla.

A smooth line from the Seattle thrift store t-shirt roundup:

"Think your iPhone is cool? Let me show you a thing or two about Windows Mobile."

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5144493/the-shirts-off-of-microsofts-back

While vi and a Web Browser is good enough for some, I'd take just the Web Browser. Rapid development needs to break out of the constant theoretical-writing-uploading/saving-previewing cycle and that's why I put together my "eval2" project for PHP.

This video tells it better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfxrt2pc3pg

While the example is ultra-simplistic, I use this every day for altering regex or otherwise previewing REAL data as I protoype code. Anyhow, the typical horse and buggy mentality backlash against this approach has been "well, I can just do php -a".

For the interested, see http://eval2.sourceforge.net/