One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
On the 26th of October 2009 Geocities seized to exist. In between the announcement and the official date of death a group of people calling themselves Archive Team managed to rescue almost a terabyte of Geocities pages. On the 26th of October 2010, the first anniversary of this Digital Holocaust, the Archive Team started to seed geocities.archiveteam.torrent.
On the 1st of November 2010 Olia and Dragan bought a 2 TB disk and started download the biggest torrent of all times.
Being inpatient we started to unzip the first packages and dig into the treasures of Web 1.0. This blog is the first inventory of our findings.
Amazing. We joke about Geocities now. But it really is a huge part of Internet history.
via Jeremy Keith
Mac vs. PC infographic
And waddayaknow? I actually do have some hummus and San Pellegrino in the fridge right now.
Biz Stone gets Twitter’s servers ready for the royal wedding
Love how they can make a joke out of all the Bieber and Gaga fans.
Photo by Troy Holden.
FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography.
Web fonts are here, sparking an exciting new era in web design. FFFFALLBACK makes it easy to find the perfect fallback fonts, so that your designs degrade gracefully.
Nifty. For some reason the preview is pink, rather than being in the original colours. But it’s an excellent tool for checking what the fallback fonts in your font stack will look like.
A Sledgehammer Called OmniFocus
Shawn Blanc:
Finding the right tool to keep track of your projects sometimes feels more like a journey than a destination. Many task-management apps have come and gone (some of us have tried them all). But in the past few years, as task-management software has increased its footprint on the Mac, the one app which has stayed in active development and which continues to grow and improve is OmniFocus.
I purchased the Mac and iPhone versions a couple of weeks ago. It has honestly taken me a while to get my head around. But now that I have it’s well worth it.
After reading this I think I’ll have to grab the iPad version too.
It’s in ALL CAPS because our lawyer said it had to be.
Typekit Terms of ServiceThe ALP Afterlife
Excellent article by Julian Morrow in this months Monthly.
The après-MP activities of these Labor figures stand in stark contrast to the predicament many faced when the parliamentary pension scheme was introduced by Ben Chifley in 1948.
Après-MP is definitely the best word I’ve read this week.
An especially grotesque feature of the system is that it effectively creates an incentive for our pensioner-pollies to undertake highly paid work in the private sector rather than continue to contribute to public life. The parliamentary pension is offset against other income received from the public purse. An “office of profit under the Crown” will reduce your parliamentary pension but an office of profit under Crown Casino – lobbying former colleagues to increase the profitability of gambling – will not.
If you’re in Australia and you don’t already subscribe to The Monthly, do. $40 a year gets you through the websites paywall and an ePub version of the issue each month, which is brilliant.
100% Natural. Who needs implants? How tissue engineering will radically enhance the future of medicine.
Sharon Begley in the November issue of WIRED:
…a discovery in tissue engineering, a process that could well be one of the most momentous medical advances of the 21st century: the use of stem cells—specifically stem-cell-enriched adipose (fat) tissue—to enhance, heal, and rebuild injured or damaged organs.
Moar boob.
Gmail Labs: Smart Labels
I turned this on a month ago when it was released.
I only just realised I’ve had far, far, far less shit in my inbox. I already had filters to get rid of some stuff, but this just got rid of all the crap.
Do yourself a favour.
Merlin Mann at Webstock 2011 - Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything
Watch it. Also check out the other talks. I’m still amazed conferences put the talks on the interent these days. Sounds like this one was well and truly worth going to though.
Take off your shoes: you’re going to need more than just your fingers to count them all.
GruberWhy Do eBooks Cost So Much? A Publisher's Perspective.
Publishers still have to pay for acquisitions, royalties, editorial development, copyediting, cover and interior design, page composition, cataloging, sales, marketing, publicity, merchandising (yes, even in a digital world), credit, collections, accounting, legal, tax, and the all the usual costs associated with running a publishing house.
In addition, publishers have to incur at least three new costs…
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