“'That is one of the mistakes a lot of people make -- believing that uncensored speech is the most free, when in fact, managed civil dialog is actually the freer speech,' he said. 'Free speech is enhanced by civility.'"

He contends that users should pay for the bandwidth they consume, and that that would keep the internet neutral.

"Wikipedia, which boasts 3.7 million articles in 200 languages, is the 37th most visited Web site on the Internet, according to the research service Alexa."

Facebook a front for CIA data collection? Hmm.

Awesome.

"Personalized comic search and transcription."

"I don't want to differentiate between 'good' distractions and 'bad' distractions. I want to stick to the idea of 'narrow' and 'broad' distractions."

Photos tagged with "japan" and "homeless."

"Imagine having your own private database of every person you've ever stumbled across online ... and every event ... and all the Creative Commons-licensed content you've ever read. Now imagine searching such a database. And subscribing to your search resu

Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what is meant by Web 2.0, the term first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference.

Reviews, headphone wizard, catalog, etc.

"TunesTracker is a free tool that will search the iTunes Music Store daily for your favorite artists, composers, and songs, and send you an e-mail when iTMS adds songs that match."

"Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result."

"A (social) command line for the web."

Paul Ford's teaser installments of "Gary Benchley, Rock Star" on TMN.

Promotional website for Paul's new book?

Book request system, lending hub.

Online library hub.

A stunning game of 20 Questions

Click the cutest kitten, submit your own.

Blurry silver spheres appear in formation over South Beach, Florida. Water droplets? Weather balloons? Aliens?

"Hyrule's Online Friend Community." A MySpace parody based on the kingdom of Hyrule.

"Meet Harriet Klausner, Amazon.com's most prolific reviewer." Over 8,650 reviews, reads four to five books every day.

Side-by-side search results.

Sigh.

Destroy any website in a number of ways.

360 degree panorama from the top of Mt. Everest. Beautiful.