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Clay Shirky’s tantalising suggestion that perhaps TV is a temporary spare-time-filling measure, and that sometime soon we’re going to come up with … gulfstream/2431

Condé Nast acquires Ars Technica for $25m (rumoured). I don’t get Condé Nast’s fascination with tech sites (they also own Reddit)—shouldn’t … gulfstream/2437

Stewart Butterfield’s resignation letter from Flickr: “As you know, tin is in my blood. For generations my family has worked with this most useful … gulfstream/2454

If 24 were set in 1994. “The schematics file is too big to email—” “How big?” “Three floppies.” gulfstream/2350

Bruce Schneier answers some questions on security. Not as paranoid as you might think: he uses the same password for low security sites, buys stuff from … gulfstream/2359

Random stupid comment, from a corpus of comments collected by the StupidFilter project, who are attempting (good luck!) to write some software that will … gulfstream/2360

Surfing the modern web with Netscape 0.9b. (Not much of it works, though mostly because it doesn’t talk HTTP 1.1, or understand content type.) gulfstream/2373

Encouraging productive conversation in chat rooms by requiring that ever utterance is unique. gulfstream/2379

“The Charms of Wikipedia,” by Nicholson Baker. The first section neatly captures the charms of Wikipedia, and the last is a nice account of Baker’s … gulfstream/2407

What the “@” sign is called in different countries. gulfstream/1839

John Seigenthaler’s Wikipedia entry was wrong for 132 days, which makes him unhappy. gulfstream/1893

The inexplicable popularity of Chuck Norris. (CHUCK NORRIS!) gulfstream/1923

Google bad news blog. This is pretty decent, although the most recent entry is wrong in claiming that the $90 million Google has offered to pay in click-fraud … gulfstream/2014

Figure I should put this up: the top 50 blogs in September 2000. gulfstream/2029

The ad-stripping, Cory-rant filtering version of Boing Boing has gone away. And because they sent a lot of traffic to one of his sites? Pussy. gulfstream/2092

On the origin and revival of Matthew Carter’s font Georgia. gulfstream/2104

“Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence”: “... Little did such founding fathers as George Washington, George Jefferson, and ***ERIC … gulfstream/2124

Great photographs, as reviewed by people on the internet. “Sam, GORGEOUS scene I luv it! Too bad u couldn't get a little more color in sky area. Blues … gulfstream/2132

The ten most visited sites on the net, and how many employees they each have. Craigslist gets by with only 23 employees (although it’s true that none … gulfstream/2186

Kevin Federline-branded search engine. Geekologie comments: “Apparently he felt Google just wasn’t doing it well enough and thought he’d throw his … gulfstream/2261

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excellent overview of IPv6 (complicated...)

Glasnost: Bringing Transparency to the Internet
java app that apparently checks to see if your torrent traffic is being throttled

torgo_x: Everything old
browsing the web with mosaic 0.93

keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish

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T-Mobile: Set up and send MMS
argh, these are the settings you need to get internet working with a blackberry pearl + t-mobil

Mobile Internet Browsing - The Carphone Warehouse

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Annals of Technology: Damn Spam: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

NSA :: Overview

Bullet Points: 10 Really Weird Fetishes
are these for real?

Meraki Wireless Network | Affordable Internet Solution | Free WiFi
looks good/interesting, but no uPNP yet!