This reminds me: I'm going to give up thinking for a year.

Great write-up of the methods and means of SOPA+PIPA, and how they're doomed to failure.

Most excellent.

TV ownership down to 97%! Victory over the boob tube will come any day.

Abuse of Google Translate is rendering it ineffective because it's relying on its own products to learn languages.

learning to live on the internet/learning to live in a city

"To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.

The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways."

muxtape: too good to last

web2.0 & the Chicago School (of economics)

click on this if you're looking at it via the del.icio.us app in facebook

useful project, terrible map using 6 shades of blue. (it's the house colors of the sites, wrong decision)

"The urge to screw around is always strongest when the work's not going well. And if you work at a computer, screwing around is only a click away."

From 1000 yrs of nonlinear history, which has been tagged toread for at least a couple years.

Think how much better del.icio.us and flickr will be when MSFT owns them!

Top links from the year (including from FITNR)... but if you read this feed, you already saw them.

scary

"Eternal September (also Great September, September that never ended, perpetual September, or endless September) is a Usenet slang expression for the period of time beginning September 1993."

"SiSSYFiGHT 2000 is, like, an intense war between a bunch of girls who are all out to ruin each other's popularity and self-esteem." -really early multiuser web game (like 1999!) mem'ries!

great: randomized p2p file exchange. lots of soft-core, as you'd expect.

why you should/n't put your personal info on the internets. via negatendo at best of the internet '05

via Tom Moody on Best of the Internet

9 of my next 10 posts will come from here.

this is one of those links that I saw long before I was on del.icio.us, and I'm now very happy to place here for safe-keeping. Hilarious detourned cybersex

fake is the new YOUR MOM // Oedipus Hex (there are better puns lurking out there)

"This paper argues that a city works less like an electronic computer, and more like the human brain. As a functionally complex system, it heuristically defines its own functionality"

I think this was written by a moronic chimpanzee.

story of invention of emoticons

maps of the net