Earth: Mostly Harmless

Plastic figurines’ guide to building a website

Why, it’s just like a typical day at work!!
Me being the robot, of course…
Plastic figurines’ guide to building a website:
Cory Doctorow:

This guide to building websites is lavishly illustrated with photographic tableaux of colorful plastic figurines acting out each step. Pictured here: storyboarding.
Link
(Via Boing Boing).
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Root servers and real internet power

Having been glued to the books for the past month, I’m catching up on stories I missed on various blogs, particularly BoingBoing. This story answers (or more accurately, reveals ambiguities about)the governance of the Internet. I wonder if the Bush administration could exert enough pressure on individual DNS root server admins to get their way. [...] (…)

Mac System 7.0.1 on your keychain

This is so incredibly cool. I’ve been looking for a Mac ROM file from the System 7 era in order to set up an emulator for a while, but this tutorial makes it dead easy.
It has a great geeky nostalgia for me as System 7.0.1, the version used in the tutorial, was the first version [...] (…)