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Too Much Information? Heavy information overload: the world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earth.
posted by faithnomore at 11:59 PM PST - 15 comments

Undecided voters aren't stupid after all. They're just waiting to see which candidate will best achieve their goal of governmental gridlock, which will be determined primarily by how control of Congress shakes out.
posted by kindall at 11:40 PM PST - 8 comments

Top level domain names lodged with ICANN. These are the TLD's lodged with ICANN, of which we might see the first ones early next year. And yes, .xxx is one of them.
posted by Zool at 9:16 PM PST - 13 comments

Is the Revolution really over? According to Wired it is, “…one day, the digital revolution was over. The big media companies wrested control of the Internet from the kids in the horned-rimmed glasses.” Derek has his comments on this but to add my own, nothing new and exciting happens anymore.

The Internet has become synonymous for pink slips, mergers, and legal battles.

I know there was a previous link to this article but I was inspired by Derek to bring a different matter to the table.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 6:55 PM PST - 11 comments

Gore vs. Nader saved by vote swapping? Here's your political Napster...
posted by owillis at 6:36 PM PST - 4 comments

Netscape 4.76 is available for downloa... oh, to hell with it, why do I even bother?
posted by Dean_Paxton at 4:47 PM PST - 41 comments

The true culprit behind the Bush/Gore billboard has been revealed. No, it's not Nader -- it's a publicity-grubbing dot-com.
posted by jjg at 2:29 PM PST - 7 comments

IKON's Website Ranked Among Top 200 Business Sites By BtoB, Advertising Age's Marketing Newspaper Your stock's in the toilet, you're being slapped with a class action suit, and you've been put on CreditWatch with negative implications. But your web site shore is purty!
posted by ethmar at 2:10 PM PST - 7 comments

napster bought macster! (am i the only one who didn't know this was gonna happen?)
posted by patricking at 2:01 PM PST - 10 comments

I challenge you to help me learn Tok Pisin
Mi laik i harim Tok Pisin. Olgeta manmeri i tokim long Tok Pisin long Papua Niugini. Mi laik i lukim na stap long PNG! That was some poor Tok Pisin. Tok Pisin is a Melanesia pidgin language extensively used in Papua New Guinea. Help me learn more! Post links for Tok Pisin language learning here!
posted by rschram at 1:36 PM PST - 2 comments

The Mideast's forgotten people, Bedouins cling to ancient tradition - and Israel's bottom rung. With strong historical ties to the land that go back 2,500 years, they feel left out of the who-gets-what debate in the Holy Land.
posted by jhiggy at 1:10 PM PST - 4 comments

Internet recording history
An IRC chat transcript recorded immediately after the 1994 Los Angeles 6.6 earthquake.
posted by rschram at 12:47 PM PST - 6 comments

Ethel talks about CNN censorship of Crossfire with Larry Flynt and Donna Rice Hughes. The transcript is MIA from the site.
posted by john at 12:03 PM PST - 9 comments

Journalism profs are soliciting Internet users' opinions on how "politically interested Web surfers are using the Internet in the 2000 U.S. presidential elections."
posted by thescoop at 11:38 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Win the popular vote, lose the election? Talk about your constitutional crisis...
posted by owillis at 11:23 AM PST - 3 comments

mylackey.com (an overpriced errand service) closed shop...and I'm disappointed that there's no secret message in the source code.
posted by gluechunk at 10:22 AM PST - 7 comments

Beam me up, Scotty! They are one step closer to making the Holodeck a reality. Now I can really ditch the world and live in my very own bubble.
posted by schlomo at 9:28 AM PST - 7 comments

Hey, kids! Statistics is cool! (Amazing introduction to the concept of estimation, and error computing.)
posted by rschram at 9:19 AM PST - 2 comments

The OPE Campus Security Statistics Website allows you to research criminal offenses that were reported at over 6000 colleges nation wide, (United States). University participation is compulsory.

Of course, what they don't mention is lots of schools, including my alma mater, refer certain complaints (commonly those dealing with sexual assault) directly to local law enforcement, and keep no official record of the incident with the school itself. I was semi-involved with my school's Women's Resource Center in '98, and I can tell you there were a lot more incidents of sexual assault than listed on the OPE site.
posted by alana at 9:17 AM PST - 2 comments

Fear and Loathing in the Magic Kingdom, or something. First Dennis Miller to "Monday Night Football" and now Hunter Thompson and ESPN. When the going gets wierd...
posted by dcehr at 8:53 AM PST - 3 comments

You saw it on the news but you didn't send flowers? Now there's no excuse...
posted by Mocata at 7:08 AM PST - 5 comments

The War on... education? It's estimated that 7000 US college students will lose their entitlement to at least some financial aid because of previous drug convictions. Which is nice. Now, the follies of the "war on drugs" are well-documented, but this takes the cake. I thought that punishment was for the criminal justice system to dispense...
posted by holgate at 4:55 AM PST - 20 comments

The Complete Bushisms - Bush Quotables Lets get the daily Bush Bash started with a bang today. Some of these are just too much. "We want to promote families in America. Families is where our nation takes hope, where wings take dream."
posted by brian at 4:30 AM PST - 18 comments

Okay, we know that web polls are nonsense, but I'm sure some people here on MeFi will be interested in the Time.com virtual voter booth.
posted by lagado at 4:10 AM PST - 7 comments

U.K. Bride-to-Be Killed Due to Cramped Conditions on Quantas Airlines A spokeswoman for Qantas was quoted as saying: “The safety of our passengers is always of paramount importance and we refer to the possible effects of flying in our in-flight magazine.”
posted by brian at 4:07 AM PST - 17 comments