A nice history of chat.meatspac.es.
NYTMagazine article about Twitter that doesn't mention TXTMob. Whoops.
"Unusual marketing technique: an inventor offered a demonstration of his custom-built speedboat design by speeding past security and crashing the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It was 1897, the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Charles Algernon Parsons was bent on making steampunk mad science out of his rather practical discovery, the modern reaction turbine."
Simple little article on the history of piracy by Christine Schweidler and Sasha Constanza-Chock.
Cool article on Joi. He also published an "unabridged" version on his blog.
Obituaries of BitCoin already? Very nice article, though.
Interesting argument that the use of NUL-terminated strings in C was shortsighted and wrong. And it probably was. My recent blog post on coal computing anyone?
"Upon the demise of LimeWire as a useful client, many people simply stopped using Gnutella altogther."
"In popular mythology, the impressive performances of America’s blacks, especially Owens, so infuriated Hitler that he refused to shake Owens’s hand after his victory in the 100-meter dash. It’s a good story, and one widely disseminated at the time to show that the Olympic spirit had triumphed over Nazi racism. The problem is, it never happened."
