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Interesting article about how internet censorship works in China. The article is now 3 years old, which is a long time on the internet, but it's worth reading.
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'The concept of “too big to fail” is under siege at the moment. The fact that a company, product or service is so clearly dominant and relied upon is no guarantee of its survival.
In particular, I make this point in regards to Web applications, cloud computing, putting your data online — whatever you want to call it. Over the past decade, consumers have been relying on Web-hosted services to house their information more and more, and on independent stores of data on their personal computers less and less.' Interesting observations from Khoi Vinh.
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'more than 800,000 frames of data from Spitzer's cameras have now been pieced together in an enormous mosaic of the galactic plane – the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy ever made.'
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via Daring Fireball, a brief history of the internet.
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Playing with Flickr
Pictures found in the most recent photos stream on Flickr.
» 光に向かって, originally uploaded by 2 Funky. ³£«Ü¤j°¦., originally uploaded by Do as what you want. DSCF3779, originally uploaded by shadowstw.
The Cassette Generator, via things magazine, which/who I was surprised to realise I hadn’t already added to my blogroll.
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just a thought
Sometimes, when I’m struggling to get something to work, or find a piece of information, or something just seems a lot less simple than it ought to be, I have to remind myself just what a young medium the internet is, and how far we’ve gone already.
