Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing. this is a really interesting interview from 1996 when Jobs was still trying to sell NEXT and Pixar’s IPO was pending. “Have you seen the Federal Express Web site where you can track a package? It took Federal Express about four months to write that program – and it’s extremely simple. Four months. It would be nice to do that in four days, or two days, or one day. [...] Three of those four functions of the Web require custom applications. And that’s what we do really well with objects. Our new product, WebObjects, allows you to write Web applications 10 times faster.”

browserwars.png. an interesting data visualization.

Shutdown Day. getting people to not use their computer on may 3rd. i used a computer once over a 2 week stretch in argentina and it was kinda nice.

who the hell needs email?

I first got on “the internet” back in 1993 when I was 13. I say “the internet” cause all I was doing was dialing into local BBSs with my high-tech 14.4kbs US Robotics Sportster modem. The BBS basically gave you access to newsgroups, play terrible command line games (which I never did), and use email. The main reason I would log on to the BBS was to get cheat codes and guides for video games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II off alt.videogames.

Back then I didn’t know a single other person who was using BBSs and I can distinctly remember thinking at the time “who the hell needs an email account? who would they ever email?” It seems I was short-sighted as a teenage boy as twelve years later the internet had 1 billion people on it and I personally check 4 different email accounts.

Interview with George Clooney – On Career, Sex, and Politics – Esquire. they discuss all the shit that’s been said about him on the internet. an odd concept of an interview.

Eerie timing on 365 Main press release – (37signals). they issued a press release about 2 years of 100% uptime a few minutes before a major blackout.

Jason Tsang’s Blog: How to go internet-less for a week ram’s friend really hates every isp in toronto.