The Internet Today

Today on the Internet I met a young man named Bryan Bishop.  I didn't meet him in the conventional sense.  I first met him on Slashdot when he posted this question, What is the first day in a University Lab Like?  Again, I didn't meet him as in, "Hi, I'm Mitchell.  Nice to meet you."  "Hi, I'm Bryan.  Nice to meet you."  I met him in an Internet sort of way.  His words gave me a bit of an introduction to him.  Intrigued, I clicked his name and wound up on his homepage.  What an interesting fellow.  It's amazing to see someone who's done so much and has so many interesting ideas.  I clicked around on some of his links and followed some threads here and there and generally spent a whole bunch of time reading somewhat random stuff of interest to a high school senior in Texas.  I found some really cool sites, my current favorite being KurzweilAI.net.  If nothing else, check out their trippy search function, The Brain.  Thanks to Bryan for being a cool guy who puts worthwhile things on the Internet.  I wouldn't know the guy if I tripped over him but I feel like I kinda know him a little bit now.

In other thrilling Internet goings-on spotlighted by Slashdot, there's an article at Yahoo! about the ongoing existence of the top level domain for the Soviet Union, Back in the USSR: Soviet internet domain name resists death.  Maybe the old American Confederacy could get its own TLD.  Or the Republic of Texas.  That'd be cool.