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The Suck-Free Internet

by Brian on 05-14-2009

in media

In 2000, at the height of the dotcom hype, I had a startling realization: the internet sucked. It was slow, cluttered, ugly, unintuitive, full of spam, required a lot of troubleshooting, and it didn’t even do very much — at least not much more than I could do without it. Whatever the internet offered, it cost [...]

Old Folks Need to Grow Up

by Brian on 04-05-2009

in civics,media

If I wasn’t turning 31 in a few weeks I might be inclined to say, “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Actually, come to think of it, don’t trust me — don’t trust anyone under 30 either — because everybody is wrong sometimes, and everything is wrong eventually.  Fortunately we don’t have to trust people and [...]