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Golf - steroids will allow much more power hence much farther drives

Except drive distance isn't necessarily a indicator of overall golf performance. If you're on a 400 yard hole, it doesn't matter that much if you drive it 300 yards and have a 100 yard approach, or drive it 350 yards and have a 50 yard one. It's a few years old, but here's a pga.com article about how almost all of the long ballers didn't make the cut for the 2012 US Open.

I'd say that doping for power is less of a factor in golf than doping for other reasons, like recovery, endurance, concentration, or as you mentioned steadying.

Quite right ... and interestingly, golf balls are engineered to maximize the length of their flight, subject to PGA rules. Most likely, that engineering assumes "normal" atmospheric conditions, so I don't know whether the ball will in practice have extended flight in the relatively rarified conditions around the ISS. It might depend on the configuration of the radio antenna as well.

Also of interest: PGA rules say, "... if you damage or cut your ball, you may change the ball after first asking your opponent or fellow competitor." and "If you hit a tee shot into the woods and suspect that it might be either lost or out-of-bounds, the Rules of Golf allow you to play a second or provisional ball"

Query: does burning up in the atmosphere count under either rule?

Sorry, but you're stuck in the past. Think outside the box (model) and cast off your ideas of table based layouts. It's amazing how the web has become so inflexible in terms of design in such a short time.

There are loads of good examples of CSS layouts that would have required huge nested tables to reproduce.

I put it to you that table-based designs are holding back the imaginations of web-designers. The web-programmers are probably going to realise that soon. The reason why corporate sites are yet to realise that (but they are realising it - slowly but surely) is because - and this may be a shock - the majority of web people, like programmers, and many other professions simply do what they know; the easy stuff. The good ones learn new tricks and make the best end-products.

Wired News

PGA.com

ESPN.com

A quick browsing of Web Standards Awards should also show you that it's possible to have nice looking and comptatible CSS designs.

And therein lies my whole problem with this. Accessibility compliant pages are damn ugly. Almost uniformly.

That's not true at all.

And so what we end up doing is take a visual medium and break it for those with different needs.

Accessible websites don't have to be ugly. What makes you think that they do?

In regard to open source software, I've been feeling the same way over the past decade, watching the men sponsored by the GPL get all the coverage. It's great to at long last see the LGPL get some attention too. I'm sure it won't be too long before the Ladies of the GPL start receiving the attention that has been denied for too long.

The Senior PGA Championship's back on. Offtopic, yes, but necessary information nonetheless.

Yeah, but afaik, akamai doesn't cache the actual html pages, just flash, images, videos, and so forth. Kinda difficult for those to be useful when no one can get CNN's index.html file, eh?

As for CNN on Sept 11th, they never delivered their HTML base page via a CDN which would have made for seemless handling of the traffic. But instead they solved the immediate congestion problem (after 3 hours and 40 minutes) by creating a single stripped down static page that used fewer resources for the site. Here is a timeline of the www.cnn.com home page as seen by our Site Analyser service.

1. 08:50 EDT - Base page errors started occuring, presumably due to lots of requests generating a too high load on CNN's servers. This resulted in end users not being able to see any of the site's content.
   
2. 12:00 to 13:30 - Base page errors fluctuate with embbeded content errors and a few seconds of DNS response time to 205.188.214.121 which nslookup calls tswebsys2.ptn.aol.com
   
3. 13:30 - Successfull, sub-second delivery of a stripped down 2915 byte index.html page from www.cnn.com with only single 14144 byte image from akamai.net.