I wish I could articulate better why this whole idea disturbs me. I feel like the Internet has always been a kind of funky global neighborhood where a fetish shop might be ‘next door’ to an evangelical church. This kind of parceling off of the common Internet namespace feels like that neighborhood is at risk of being put in the shadow of huge custom condos that will block out the sun.

Good To Be Green rolls out New Directory:
Seattle based, Good To Be Green, Inc has released their latest tool for environmentally minded consumers looking for green building products in both the commercial and residential markets. This new feature, called Profiled Listings for Products, includes in-depth information on products, downloadable product documentation and automatically finds local [...]

The 100 Year Website:
Time capsule meets the internet!  
The100yearwebsite.com is a great way to gather together your pictures, video and audio clips, thoughts and text in a virtual time capsule which we will keep safe for you, for the next 100 years!!!
Choose to let others experience your capsule from day one, or bury it to [...]

Just got an email from OpenCongress. OpenCongress is designed to help you keep track of what’s really happening in Congress, your elected officials, and the issues you care about. The homepage is at OpenCongress.org.
It only came out of beta a few months ago. It’s a great source of information for American political junkies like me.  [...]

Bookswim Beta opens :

“Changing the Way America Reads”
Could the price of books possibly have gotten any more expensive? During any given week, the average bestseller lists for more than $20. Read three of these in a month and you’re spending over $60! What you’re paying for is the right to own the book… but is [...]

(I originally wrote this in 1996 while off my bipolar meds)

I had decided several weeks ago that I wanted a cat, but had not really ever known where cat’s came from when you WANT one.  Every cat I have ever had or anyone I know had had had (hard to make a sentence with three [...]