I'm at work, where most of us telecommute and never see one another, and devised the following application to enhance productivity and shareholder value. Maybe you can use it in your distributed workplace too.

Because, as myth has it, I hate everything and everyone, I tend to be quick on the anger draw. So in an effort to create a less hostile work environment I implore you to help me build the next great p2p application. Everyone in a team runs it on their workspace. You turn it on when you start work, it finds your peers.

The system is based on a therapy that some Obsessive Compulsive Disorder people may use: They wear a rubber band on their wrist and snap it when they are doing "the bad thing".

When a member of the team starts doing a "bad thing" someone else on the team, may, at their option, snap the offending teammate. The offender will see on their screen a big rubber band come in from the back of the screen and arrive at the front of the screen with an audible snap.

With this we can snap each other when we aren't helping to increase shareholder value. When I'm getting angry too easily or being overly sensitive to some bizarre concept of justice, when Bob is talking too much, when Joe is yelling, when Ned storms out, when Barb doesn't read or write, when Norman is being "too mean", when Francine gets her math wrong, when Susan is too slow, when Barry is too indirect, everyone will be able to move on and get shit done.

Or collapse under a hail of thunderous snapping.

Clearly this thing needs a name.