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I know it is early in the season and it is a marathon not a sprint, blah, blah, blah. BUT...anyone frustrated?

Alyssa Milano, Baseball fan.

novids

novids
Originally uploaded by fotokropf.

Every once in a while the internet stretches the definition of nonsense.

Years

Run Some Old Web Browsers Day is today (was celebrates the tenth anniversary of Mosaic Communications/Netscape - obviously not! I'm old.). JWZ celebrates by sharing a few bits of incredible trivia from the early releases. Among them:

home1.mcom.com through home32.mcom.com exist because the early browsers did client-side load-balancing: the browser itself had a special case where if it was loading "home.mcom.com" it would actually pick a random number from 1 to 32 and instead load "homeN.mcom.com"! Those were physically different servers in the Netscape data center.

JWZ also offers his archive of Netscape versions and shares the story of his attempt to reacquire the mcom.com domain from AOL. Screenshots of the old Mosaic & Netscape versions feel much older than 10 years to me.

Hezbollah Tofu, as announced on Serious Eats:

Me: It would be really funny to veganize Anthony Bourdain's recipes.

Another person: We should make and sell a zine, then donate the proceeds to a vegan charity.

So many things are wonderful about this, perhaps most wonderful is the emergence of Serious Eats as a place for culture hackers to announce their work.

11/12ths of Apperceptive

11/12ths of Apperceptive
Originally uploaded by capndesign.