Now here is a strange joke by two 'kids'. Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi (pseudoname) claimed at their Toorcon session that Firefox's javascript engine was hopelessly screwed up and full of vulnerabilities. Their joke was plausible enough to briefly throw Mozilla into panic mode and reporters into puking a splatter of news. It turns out they were just joking.

The really funny part is that Spiegelmock works for Six Apart's on LiveJournal and Wbeelsoi is supposedly part of a group that claimed responsibility for launching a javascript attack against LiveJournal in January. I wonder if that's how the two jokers met?

And the tender loving part of the story is that Six Apart is not going to fire Spiegelmock. Awwwww. That's so sweet. Will Mischa be allowed to hang with his hacker buddy after this?

Today, both Koreas celebrated Foundation Day, an official holiday. In korean, the day is called Gae-cheon-jeol (gae = open, cheon = sky/heaven, jeol = day) meaning The Day Sky Opened. Here is a rather humorous outsider's explanation of the day:

[On October 3rd, 2333BC,] A sky god came to earth and set up shop in North Korea (yeah) [actually, I think it was Baekdu Moutain which seems like a great place for splash landing]. He impregnated a bear (which he conveniently changed to a woman before knocking it up — this point conveniently keeps Korea just one hair away from having the distinction of being the only nation born not in revolution, not in sober diplomatic discourse, but in bestiality). The bear woman squeezed out a kid called Tangun who became Korea's first king and ruled for 1,908 years and then went into retirement as a mountain god.

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p dir=”ltr”>Actually the bear-woman story is more involving:

A tiger and a bear living in a cave prayed to Hwanung that they may become human. Upon hearing their prayers, Hwanung gave them 20 cloves of garlic and a bundle of mugwort, ordering them to only eat this sacred food and remain out of the sunlight for 100 days. The tiger gave up roughly after twenty days and left the cave. However, the bear remained and was transformed into a woman. – from Wikipedia on Dangun.

So a powerful alien splash landed into a volcano over 4,339 years ago and genetically modified a female bear to bear its child who lived for 1,908 years and someone was meticulous enough to write down the date it all started. Hmm.

It's an odd yet wonderful myth but I wonder what happened to the tiger in the love triangle of sort…

My comment to Mark Pincus:

Mark, I am disappointed by your reckless blogging behavior.

Telling a story is great but google juice powered association of a name to an event that occured fifteen years ago just to illustrate your opinion on ethics then refusing to recognize the harm you might have done in the name of free speech violates my standard of proper behavior.

Unfortunately, this kind of mess can't be cleaned up by editing nor apologizing. Everytime someone googles his name or his company's name, it will resurface and affect his business.

Do you seriously believe he deserves to continue paying for a mistake he made at school 15 years ago? Or is it your belief that your free speech is worth others' loss?

IMHO right to free speech is not unlike the right to bear firearms, it is not a license to go around shooting willy nilly.