Monthly Archives: August 2006

Visualizing scale

A great collection of scale visualizations. Worth a quick browse if you want to regain some perspective on the universe (photo from www.rense.com). Signal Versus Noise is the blog of 37 Signals, a company which has shattered the usefulness to … Continue reading

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Test for network neutrality – will Google help?

Recently reported on Boing Boing: Dan Kaminsky, DNS hacker and rootkit infection sleuth, has devised a test for checking to see if your Internet connection is “neutral” — that is, whether your connection is being filtered, throttled, slowed down, or … Continue reading

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Solutions to Net Neutrality

I recently discovered Farber’s “interesting people” discussion list: a bunch of fascinating folks debating (primarily) internet issues. A few months back Bob Cringely highlighted Bob Frankston, one of the list members, in one of the most lucid articles about network … Continue reading

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Stewie upstages Osama

One of my favorite Family Guy segments from the early days of the series is strangely hard to find on the ‘net, perhaps due to its somewhat prescient nature. It was only added to YouTube a week ago let’s see … Continue reading

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