This is likely going to spread like wildfire, and it isn’t even finished yet: Information Architects has released the final beta for the fourth iteration of its awesome Web Trends Map series. This is a great visualization of current Internet trends, and how companies and individuals fit into it.
As mentioned on Colins Blog, while reading some of Paul Graham's essays I wondered how they were all interconnected. I tried a quick experiment and got an interesting picture, so today I spent another hour and made the map clickable, and slightly better laid out. The result is interesting, and here it is. Quite effective
Geoff Huston provides a bunch of statistics on the Internet address spaces. There are up to date graphs of the IPv4 and IPv6 address blocks, BGP routing tables and autonomous system numbers. Aside of these statistics, the site provides estimations when we will run out of addresses, based upon projected growth rates.
404 Research Labs maintain a bookmark collection to funny HTTP error pages. There's also a 404 page of the week - great stuff!
Once again, I'm wondering about my daily spam. Today, I've received one of this spam mails containing little more than an image. However, the image is somewhat alienated as it is typical for captchas. Why would someone do this? OCRing your mails? Stupid
