Mad Thoughts

Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.

April 16, 2010 9:54 am
Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers

Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers

April 7, 2010 11:13 am
"Net neutrality isn’t a fair fight. It’s an abstract issue concerning whether Internet service providers can treat different kinds of data in different ways, and to understand it, people mainly look to see who’s on which side of the battle. That turns out to be, in the pro camp, innovative Internet companies like Google and Yahoo, who have playful logos and give you stuff for free, versus scary cable megaliths like Comcast, a.k.a. the guys who gouge you monthly and schedule installation appointments for eight-hour windows. It’s the wide open future of the Internet versus roadblocks and toll-taking. There may not be a clearer good-guys/bad-guys fight in all of technologydom. There’s a third player, too, a kind of white knight—the Federal Communications Commission’s baby-faced new chairman, Julius Genachowski. A college and law-school chum of President Obama’s, Genachowski has made net neutrality one of his signature issues, viewing it as a part of the bedrock on which America’s Webby future will rest. In his mind, to be for net neutrality is to be on the side of history. When the history of the Internet does get written, a few decades hence, it will recall that today in Washington, the bad guys won."

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Summers, on Comcast v. FCC (via newsweek)
March 18, 2010 11:02 am

Web Talk

  • Me: Hey Erin, what's the best browser to create a page in Drupal? I keep getting javascript errors with Firefox.
  • Erin: Oh, uhm... I use Firefox or Opera--
  • Me: Opera? What are you, German?
March 13, 2010 5:02 pm
LAZERTITS

I’m taking an internet break now.

January 31, 2010 7:54 pm
For a internet nerd, these are the biggest celebrities at the Grammy’s tonight. (via thegrammys)

For a internet nerd, these are the biggest celebrities at the Grammy’s tonight.

(via thegrammys)

January 16, 2010 4:46 pm
"Knowing that the depth of our thought is tied directly to the intensity of our attentiveness, it’s hard not to conclude that as we adapt to the intellectual environment of the Net our thinking becomes shallower."

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Nic Carr (via human-dog)
October 11, 2009 10:06 pm
This is what happens when your mother-in-law uses Internet Explorer

This is what happens when your mother-in-law uses Internet Explorer

September 19, 2009 3:45 pm
Laughing my ass off.

Laughing my ass off.

August 20, 2009 5:16 pm

I love the internet because…

…when I type “on a boat” into Google, I get exactly what I want.

May 31, 2009 6:23 pm
Reasons for using Internet Explorer. I’d also add “Validating that Microsoft still doesn’t fucking get it.”

Reasons for using Internet Explorer. I’d also add “Validating that Microsoft still doesn’t fucking get it.”

December 9, 2008 11:53 pm
Santa follows my Twitter feed.

Santa follows my Twitter feed.

November 18, 2008 10:47 pm
Fashion Your Firefox

Why don’t you use Firefox? According to my site analytics, 40% of you still use Internet Explorer. Stop it. Your life dramatically improves when you start using Firefox. It will open the web to you in ways you never thought!

When you’ve finally taken the plunge, check out Fashion Your Firefox for your first set of extensions. They’ve split some popular extensions, mini programs you install into Firefox, into different categories based on what you use the web for. There are solid recommendations in there— even some I wasn’t aware of.