Archive for August, 2006

Visualizing scale

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

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 complexity ratio with apps I use daily such as Basecamp and ...

Test for network neutrality – will Google help?

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

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 monkeyed with secretly by your ISP Google has registered some "test" domains, ...

Solutions to Net Neutrality

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

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 neutrality. In a message to the IP list, Frankston debunks ...

Stewie upstages Osama

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

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 how long it will last there! According to Wikipedia: This episode aired ...