As I blogger, I value sources which constantly give me great links to steal. That's why today I endorse LinkFilter. Its got Fark-like attitude, but with better, and more diverse editorial judgement. Its also like Metafilter, but I find its links to be more interesting -- overall. We now end today's shout out.
The internet's primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic websites to use new addresses ending in "xxx."
In an unrelated story, the grand soothsayer of domain squatters forsees "the kingdom of heaven on earth" in the near future.
The identity of deep throat was revealed yesterday. Since my car has no FM radio, I learned this first from the rightwing bat-shit-crazy-libertarians on the AM band. Luckily, when I got home, I had Dan Gillmor to give me reflection, honesty, and insight on an event that happened long before I was born.
This makes me wonder: have we been unnecessarily limiting the mediums in which non-media-conglomerate owned publications (I almost said "citizen journalism") could flurish? My 3AM mind is telling me that perhaps we should look to open-source software, and online games for inspiration on how this might work.
Basically, what we're going to do here is dig up the Earth, a big chunk at a time, and boost the whole lot of it into orbit.
...If we wanted to and were willing to devote resources to it, we could start this process RIGHT NOW. Indeed, what with all the gunk left in orbit, on the Moon and heading out into space, we already have done.
In a later section that discusses timeframes, they do admit that this plan has a downside:
Earliest feasible completion date: Ah. Yes. At a billion tons of mass driven out of the Earth's gravity well per second: 189,000,000 years.
I got the infojungle newswire back up. To left you'll see links to the rss feeds, and main sections of the link blog. It uses del.icio.us to categorize and add items. I think its cool... then again, I'm a total dork.
