"Return of the Mac", a cool read by Paul Graham..

All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.

i haven't heard this in a while... it's a funny phone call to 911 where Joe needs a bambulance to pick him up at the Stop 'n Go.

Nice rant by Lawrence Lessig ("Why Your Broadband Sucks") about broadband. He argues that governments have established a precedent of providing services that were better or cheaper than the free market offerings. Street lamps, tollbooth workers, city buses, and most recently, free wireless access for the residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The governor of PA recently signed a law that makes city-sponsored, free wi-fi illegal. In this particular area (wifi), as well as others, the free market has failed, and so the government moved in to provide a better, cheaper solution (or even any solution).