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.