Category: Culture
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TIL Netflix Packets Never Leave Town!
I got a message from my ISP’s (Shaw) Bandwidth Team today. I wasn’t able to return the call, but I suspect they were calling to scold me about my bandwidth usage. Some History Bandwidth cap policies were a knee jerk reaction from ISPs ill-prepared for the era file-sharing on Napster and later voracious bittorrent usage. An era when…
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Ev Williams and the future of online publishing
Great piece on Ev Williams and the open web. Yet his run near the top has been remarkably consistent. While other CEOs in his early-web cohort have left the industry, or have become writers or consultants, Williams has stuck around, leading companies. His startups have nearly all specialized in the same abstract medium: text boxes.…
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The Story of Alkaline Trio’s Goddamnit
Chicago’s Alkaline Trio is one of the most influential bands from the turn of the century “emo” era. I came across the Original Sin documentary from 2008, about their first full-length release Goddamnit. It’s a great watch! Check it out. Part 1 Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm1LhObR3F4 Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzjLoPEeMyU Part 4 Is missing 🙁
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Are Humans Bad Drivers?
Whenever self-driving are discussed, almost everyone — the media, tech podcasts, twitter, your uncle — universally asserts that “humans are bad drivers,” usually adding something to the affect of “we need machines to save us from ourselves.” As a contrarian through and through, foregone conclusions like that immediately trigger my gag reflex. I don’t think…
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Hei Opera!
Opera was the first web browser I truly loved. In the early days of the modern web, when we had 4 or 5 real legit competitors in the browser space, Opera was truly innovative. In the year 2000 it was the first browser to support tabbed browsing (2 years before Mozilla, 3 years before Safari…