Kevin Fanning and Kean Soo put together hilarious rhymes and illustrations called Baby's First Internet.

Not sure how to explain the internet to your young ones? Presenting a series of nursery rhymes to teach children how to comport themselves on the online.

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Related links:
Kean Soo's personal website - link
Kevin Fanning's personal website - link

From Engadget:

For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or "failed due to a power outage," as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, has had two cables damaged in the span of a week -- a quandary it has never dealt with until now. As it stands, traffic from the Middle East and surrounding areas is being routed through various other cables in an attempt to remain online, but any more snips and we could be dealing with ping times eerily similar to those seen in 1993 (or much, much larger issues).

Click here to view a world map which shows all of the undersea internet cables: damaged, planned and in-service.

I would think it would only take seconds to decide if a webpage sucks or not, but in case you need an in-depth flowchart to help you decide, here you go.

Chris Harrison created three maps which display how cities are interconnected.

The Dimes Project provides several excellent data sets that describe the structure of the Internet. Using their most recent city edges data (Feb 2007), I created a set of visualizations that display how cities across the globe are interconnected (by router configuration and not physical backbone). In total, there are 89,344 connections.

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The boys over at haxademix.net never cease to amaze me, this time rolling out a web based and virtually anonymous SQL injection tool (it's FREE to).

http://evil.hackademix.net/sqlit/

** For those of you who do not know what an SQL injection is...

SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is in fact an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

have fun and remember it's for EDUCATIONAL purposes :)

All of this baby naming hoop-de-doo is driving me insane!  If I base my baby's name on its domain name availability please slap some sense into me.  Supposedly, it's a big trend among new parents to establish their kids' internet identities before they can even walk, talk and poop in the potty.  Link to Wired article.

Previously:
Google Baby, Metallica, 4real, Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K

March 24, 2007 is Shutdown Day.  Join thousands of others around the world in shutting down your computers for 24 hours and remembering what life was like without them.

It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!

Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

[via The Presurfer]

Here is a "revolutionary" 1993 documentary about this thing called the internet.  I don't know if you've heard about it, but I really don't think it's going to take off.

[via digg]

I just thought I'd let you all know that the Wii version of Opera 9 is available for download and I'm writing this on my Wii. Looking for a reason to pick one up? Well, the thing is like a $250 mac mini mixed with a gamecube and bundled with sweet bluetooth hardware. Seriously, this is the coolest feeling you can have while sitting on your couch. 10 out of 10. (And an arm workout, too!)

I stumbled upon a very cool website today. 

Look at Me is a collection of found photos.

These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. Maybe someone died and a relative threw away their photographs; maybe someone thought they were trash.

Some of the photos were found on the street. Some were stacked in a box, bought cheap at a flea market. Showing off or embarrassed, smug, sometimes happy, the people in these photos are strangers to us. They can't help but be interesting, as stories with only an introduction.

The LOOK AT ME project started with a few photos found by Frederic Bonn and Zoe Deleu in a Paris street in 1998.

It's a wonderful collection of old photographs.  You may also submit your own found photos.