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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]

Fascinating look at the domain name system and the complex DNS master key ritual. (Seems like an event that stopped international travel would keep the key locked away.)

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?