/. for the impatient

Flash-based visual map of Google News… interesting

“a partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering”

“For a while, it seemed as if gopher might open the Internet up to the nontechnical masses and usher in a new era of online communication. It very well might have, if the Web hadn’t come along and done it instead”

The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes)

“We lied to you. In the golden 80s and 90s we told you micropayments and content protection would work; that you would be able to charge minuscule amounts of money whenever someone listened to your music or watched your movie.”

interview with Q&A on semantic web stuff

“The last 200 years have driven centralization and changed the human experience in ways that conflict with evolution. The Internet will reestablish a more balanced, decentralized lifestyle.”

web standards stuff I need to read

“The fundamental principles of P2P – that the network is the computer [&c.]…are now a part of every application and system designer’s toolkit.”

hack that uses Google’s API to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout