S Anand

How good can a 256 byte webpage be? See the 256b.htm competition. I was particularly impressed by Bonz-Mandelbrot, Poi-Metaballs and Mados-Divo. 256b.com has more 256-byte stuff.

I hate this. “Beginning April 2, 2002, we — Geocities — will no longer provide FTP access as part of our free home page service.” Nice of them to let me know well in advance, though.

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

The Japanese are creating new forms of life. (OK, they just created new bases.)

Is there hope? Could the copyright duration be brought down from 70 years?

Enron’s voice mail. No, that’s not true, but it’s pretty similar to Enron’s real voice mail at 1-703-853-6161. (And funnier, too).

A good article on why your digital data could one day disappear. Digital, when you think about it, is far less permanent than paper.

Weird news on the rise. A search for weird news on Google reveals popular news sites like USA Today, MSNBC, ABCNews and even Reuters (via Yahoo) taking an interest in this area.

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)