There are convergence points, you know. Places where you can find a Tim Horton's close to a Waffle House.
I dream of a utopia where a Buc-ees sits next to the WaHo, and Timmie's is just down the lane.
The Internet Archive ruling is just a bitter reminder of how jaded I've become about the Internet. What excited me most back in the all-text days is that I could Gopher so much raw information contained in journals and books, and I dreamt of a future where everything would be digitized and easily accessible.
Of course, I underestimated greed and the iron bars of capitalism wrongly applied, and those dreams died long before the feds tortured Aaron Swartz to death. So much potential for bettering the world, and here we are, stuck behind antiquated notions.
It's really cool that you can turn it off. It's also really cool that my extension allows me to destroy your web design by making it all dark.
Who's the real rebel here?
White Sox Infamy Update:
In order to dodge the title of worst team in history, the Sox must finish the season with a record of 12-12.
They won four games in the month of August.
What we’re witnessing is unfathomable to the baseball stat junkie.
White Sox Road to 121: Minimum to become the worst team in MLB history now 10-14. This is .416 baseball, which they're incapable of playing.
It's beautiful, in its own way.
This little bit is why, eventually, X will have to decentralize to some degree if it wants to survive. Every government wants to control the flow of information, and there are few that legally protect a site owner.