Archive for May, 2006
Network Neutrality Vote Impending
The House is preparing to vote on whether or not to preserve the currently operative principle of “network neutrality” – meaning that a big ISP cannot decide to selectively slow down access to sites that don’t pay them premium protection money. If this vote goes the wrong way, the Verizons et al. can charge, say, Amazon a huge fee to not throttle-down traffic to their site, while political blogs and everyone else who cannot afford the ‘protection’ fees will suddenly have slow, slow-loading sites. Bah. They must be stopped.
No commentsAll Sensible People Want to be Athanasius Kircher
Ok, apart from the whole being dead thing, I guess. There are lots of fine sites about him (see a couple of starting points below, but I especially like the Kircher Society, who seek to work in his spirit, so to speak.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_Kircher
- http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/kircher/kircher.html
- http://www.strangescience.net/kircher.htm
