xkcd

Map of the Internet, according to ip netblocks

we totally xkcd'ed someone tonight:   so she goes in to the cafe and goes up to the guy and says   "excuse me, but are you programming in ruby?"   and the guy goes, "huh? what? yes, i am." more...

There’s some strange text on billboards around New York. I passed these four this weekend: THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet, lets take a walk around the world.

There's been a lot of confusion over 1024 vs 1000, kbyte vs kbit, and the capitalization for each. Here, at last, is a single, definitive standard: