Fascinating. Franz Kafka. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
It might be early to tell yet. But I believe that the subscription model will work. I think people will pay to end ads on certain sites, particularly community oriented sites like Slashdot and Kuro5hin. End of the Free Internet [Slashdot]
Good reading. Plastic is pointing to a Village Voice piece about the Top Ten Questions the Media Can’t Answer. Its a real eye opener to read this then flip on CNN or FOX News and listen to the verbal diarrhea. Fun for the whole family. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
Seriously cool. The Guardian: Webarian. Q&A with Brewster Kahle. A Terabyte for one of the Wayback Machine’s computers costs about $4,000 – the Moore’s law surprises me every time. The machine itself is made up of ordinary HP desktops stacked on top of each other. We take out the disk it comes with and put in a 160 Gb large disk. [Tomalak’s Realm]
I loved my Omnisky service when I had it. Unfortunately, no matter how I pondered the question, or how long I sat and pondered, I could not come up with a business use for it. Earthlink officially takes over Omnisky service [PDABuzz.com]
Get out of my country. Accused Nazi’s Citizenship Revoked for a Second Time. A federal judge today revoked the U.S. citizenship of John Demanjuk, who prosecutors said was a death camp guard. [The New York Times: National]
I think we all probably saw this one coming. I’ve had a minor issue with PayPal, not anywhere near as serious as some individuals I’ve read about. Their customer service definately sucks, but their service is k-rad cool. MSNBC: “Less than a week after its blockbuster debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, online payment firm PayPal has been hit with a class-action suit charging it with improperly administering users accounts and poor customer service.” 
[Scripting News]