Distilled DSL? Wired Booze?

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
- Esther Dyson

Goofiest 404 Error Ever?

A friend of ours in Columbus is a member of The Potter’s House Church of God, and sings in the choir. Part of the church's ministry is broadcasting their Sunday services on TV, which they subsequently make available on the Web. Wanting to hear Stan and the choir last night, I clicked on the TV link and then on the Last Week Service video link, and got something looking more or less like this, except the number last night was 404 (I’m kicking myself for not grabbing a screen shot last night…):



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Listening to: Keith Emerson - I Saw Three Ships
via FoxyTunes

But… But… Al Gore Invented the Internet, Didn’t He??

From MercuryNews.com today:
‘Father’ of Internet, partner in Bay Area for more honors:

“…On Saturday, Cerf and his former research partner, Robert E. Kahn, will receive the prestigious Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery at a banquet in San Francisco. It’s the latest in a long string of honors that includes a presidential technology medal in 1997.…”