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Google’s internal subdomains.

What Lies Beneath New York.

Google donates infrastructure to Wikipedia. Possible benefits to Google? Test another end use for the famed Google OS Get an “authoritative” knowledge base to provide search results on Position against Microsoft Encarta as an encyclopaedia

Cell phone towers camouflaged as trees.

The Internet is fast.

Daypop is out of disk space. Poor thing! Could we lend it some? I mean, could sites like Daypop work out a distributed architecture, using web services? Or using things like space drives? via Scripting News

Rail accidents are nothing new to India.

They’re piloting a magnetic levitation train at Virginia. These trains can run much faster than conventional trains.

Typographical errors on San Fransisco sidewalks.

Microsoft Deathwatch. No, Bill isn’t dead, but his servers were for a while.

The session on Mergers, MBOs and other corporate reorganizations by Paulo Volpin started 5 minutes late. Reason: They had a problem with the computer projector. Fixing it turned out to be a hi-tech exercise, though. A guy came in with some kind of a hand-held device, pointed it around like a remote control, and the projector was on. 6:05PM – 5 minutes lost. 5 minutes later, “IP address conflict”. The Professor gives up and moves on to trusty slides. He came prepared. ...

An update on the Internet cable scenario.