I compiled whitespace from the Haskell source (could have apt-get install whitespace'ed it, but this was more fun =] ). Then fed it that page's source ... no output. Anyone want to reverse engineer some probable CMS-noise?

On to my question. If you have enough high amplitude random noise that is effectively destructive interference, would this make an enviorment where low amplitude sound could not be hear or even mechanically sensed easily?

The effect you've described is called sound masking (more generally, auditory masking), so yes, but the cause isn't quite what you inferred (destructive interference). :-)

There was a time when cities just grew out of towns, streets went anywhere, etcetera; complexity grew organically, with the odd extreme here and there. In newer developments, streets started getting laid out in grids years ahead of need ... cue cookie-cutter houses, the 1950s, etcetera again. Now I'm no urban planner, so I shouldn't comment on it (-grin-), but this urban-information-integration prototype sure seems like a Good Thing, to me (in the sense that it's a prototype/trial of a planned information infrastructure).

Just because something doesn't make (business/economic/monopolist/technological/political/social) sense now, doesn't mean it won't later, and having infrastructure in place, however crude or preliminary, is better than nothing. So here's an exercise: imagine this sort of thing has already happened where you live, and that everyone has an Android-friendly iPhone-whatever that talks to anything nearby ... what do you think would really change things? What would an open-access, high-bandwidth information utility be used for? (Assume funding is whatever mix of private, government, and donation/subscription makes sense.)

And now, the $64,000 question: what exactly is information? ;-)