Archive for October 15th, 2005

128K Line in the bathroom

I lent them my bathroom to be their first POP in Japan. (People wouldn’t rent space to an unknown US company.) I was probably one of the first people in Japan to have a 128K leased line in their toilet.
Joi Ito about PSINets expansion to Japan (via his bathroom). Nowadays, among other things, he’s on […]


CNN special: Online Evolution

uh, i LOVE it: a CNN special called “Online Evolution“. nice intro to idea, timeline and key players of the internet; nice & acessible user statistics; and the whole content structured quite smartly into three categories:

how has the internet changed?
who changed the internet?
how has the internet changed you?

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online travel tools

note to self: check out [travelpod]
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DNS Blocking

Wo wir gerade bei geblockten IP-Adressen sind:
Hier gibt’s eine kurze Anleitung, wie man die Blockade umgehen kann. Falls man zum Beispiel gerade in Südkorea ist, und eine nordkoreanische Website ansehen möchte.

Nochmal die Links:
Von datenreise.de alternative (ungefilterte) DNS-Server,
und vom CCC die Browser-Einstellungen.
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fashion victim

oh, and this dude even has a website, which turns out to be kind of funny. (what is it with me, that i tend to find websites of military dictatorships so amusing?)
Note that to enter the website, you get tunneled through a “leader” website, where both the great leader and the dear leader wave at […]


free culture

… the whole Dick Hardt keynote thing reminded me of another classic: Lawrence Lessig’s presentation about free culture.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, go watch it. Right now. Hm?
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Identity 2.0

Dick Hardt (Sxip.com) speaks at OSCOM, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference.
Excellent stuff on identity 2.0. I.e.: How do you identify yourself on the web 2.0, who to trust and how to establish a trust network, and how to prove that you are actually you?
Really, really good stuff.
[via die romantische komödie]
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