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Dang, we ended up with a top-down Internet anyway. "Today, Google and a handful of other major Internet corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon fulfill much the same role that Otlet envisioned for the Mundaneum—channeling the world’s intellectual output." [via RF]

Paul Ford explains how Greg Knauss prepared for massive Web traffic. It's a great look at how Web scaling works. "Can you turn our tour bus into an airplane for a week or two?" Simple!

"Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL." AOL Keyword: Déjà vu.

checkout this repository of git parody. --so-good [via todayintabs]

Great pricing compared to AWS.

Rafe zeroed in on the real problem in the recent Kindlegate: "If a business is going to use an algorithm-based approach to fraud problems like this, there’s got to be an understanding of the limitations of such a system. When you ignore that fact, you run into public relations disasters like the one Amazon encountered today."

This is a great real world example of 3D printing getting something to people quickly.

"The motive of the algorithm is still unclear." We live in a cyberpunk novel. [via new aesthetic]

Mat Honan is experiencing a nightmare cascade failure of interconnected services. This is a good reminder to back things up and make sure your passwords are unique for each service.

Impressive growth for a company with 12 people. Database sharding is some sort of evil magic, isn't it?