The winners of the annual Webby awards
for the best web sites have been decided.
Also, the Los Angeles times offers an
target=_new>interesting look on the Webbys,
in part analyzing how many of this year's
winners no longer exist and what those
that do have in common.
The New
York Times
offers a fascinating article by Michael Lewis on
the real impact of the Internet on our everyday
lives.
Hint: It has nothing
to do with the NASDAQ.
(For those who don't want to register
Based on recent satellite imagery and other
evidence gathered over the years, the
world's
leading aviation archeological group is
launching an expedition next month to a tiny island
in the Pacific to find out if the 64-year-old mystery
may finally be solved.
The winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton
Fiction Contest, where writers
from around the world
vie to come up with the opening
sentence to the worst of all possible
novels, are now available online.
Feed it ink, toner, and paper (the same
sort you would buy at your local office
supply store) and it'll take a digital
file and turn it into a printed, bound,
trimmed book in a matter of minutes.
Costing about $30K and no bigger than
a commercial photocopier, Jeff Marsh's new machine may
very well be the future of publishing.
The ACLU calls it Zero Intelligence: The
Las Vegas Weekly
reports on the story of a 14-year-old
middle school
student being jailed for ten days and then expelled
from school for making the wrong offhand remark and fitting
the wrong profile (i.e. well-groomed, well-liked,
and gets good grades).
Wired
reports on efforts by Soluz, Inc.,
who for the last six years (and by whatever means
necessary -- often via horseback) has been
installing solar panels in homes in Honduras and
the Dominican
Republic that are otherwise without
electricity.
The popular search engine Google
offers a fascinating glimpse into what people are
looking for on the Internet. The most common
mispelled
query is...amtrack?
Here's a browser emulator that lets you see today's internet through the eyes of version 1.0 and 2.0 browsers. It's not a pretty sight.
Heavy.Com
recasts the video game classic Tetris
as a food fight between sumo wrestlers
in Iron Stomach, a beautifully-crafted
bit of addictive web silliness.
Note: Requires
Shockwave player (you'll be directed
to the appropriate site if you don't have
it installed) and can take a while to load
if you have a slow connection.