Here are three interesting and fun things I have recently stumbled on:

Google sets:

Google sets is a Google Labs product that automatically creates sets of words from a few keywords. You enter a few keywords from a set of things, and then press “Large Set” or “Small Set” and Google tries to predict similar keywords in […]

A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity:

Whoever…utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet… without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, […]

Competition is good. As soon as Verizon finished installing its own fiber optic network in my neighborhood, and promised higher Internet speed, I got a letter from Comcast (my current ISP) informing me that they had just bumped up their standard downstream speed to 6000 Kbps. Sweet. I immediately power cycled my cable modem and […]

I found this the other day and I thought it was cool. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in a URL, select a date range, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the Web. […]

It is not always easy to attach those big files to e-mail messages as the attachment limit for most ISPs is about 10MB. Don’t be disappointed - there are some slick –and free–Web sites for sending really big files. Both Dropload and YouSendIt let you send single files of up to 1GB in size. (Warning: […]

I always notice that many people end their e-mails or newsgroup postings with three or four letter words that I do not understand. So, I start questioning myself, is it because English is not my native language? Is it because my English vocabulary is poor? Is it because the writer made a spelling mistake? Well, […]