NetworkWorld interviews Stanford professor Nick McKeown about his groups vision for a smarter, more secure internet; too bad it won't have anything like network neutrality.

All outbound links in Wikipedia will now use the "nofollow" attribute, which instructs search engines like Google to ignore whatever reputation the link may provide.

Tim O'Reilly discusses a CAPTCHA system that uses photos from Hotornot.com to determine if a user is human. He and another (presumably) straight man experienced difficulty in identifying hot guys, raising some interesting gender issues.

an extremely geeky history of email.

Mark Dery compares contemporary spam to Dada poetry.