This is smart, and prescient. Through this lens, a huge part of the entire mobile app phenomenon that iPhone really catalyzed is merely an impact of moving so much computing power to the edge of the mobile phone network, instead of trying to provide so many services through archaic centralized infrastructure. Put simply: Move the brains to the edge of the network, and you get great new kinds of apps. We don't know what the Angry Birds or Draw Something of the server-side web app world looks like right now, because right now there's no way for consumers to buy it.

"A Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."

Facebook a front for CIA data collection? Hmm.

"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."

Oh, great.

"AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically."

"to collect as much data on the U.S. government as I could, convert it to RDF, and build a site and a web service that make it possible to explore that data"

"The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of the computing counterculture: open-source software that is distributed free, and improved and debugged by far-flung networks of programmers."

"On dumping Internet Explorer, how you can provide feedback to the IE team, and why IE is bad for Microsoft’s business model."