Thanks to array for the pointer.
More inline with the thrust of the essay:
I've told this to some people in just the last few months who can't believe that's true.
"Imagine in the 1970's trying to explain that video games were going to be much more important to advancing technology than the multibillion dollar military marketplace!"
Content vs. Connectivity: A wide ranging essay examining the history of the Internet and showing just how vital it is to keep the open environment of the 'net past intact. And as you might guess from the essay's name, the method the author would propose for maintaining that openness is keeping the content producers and the connectivity providers completely seperate.
What's your TTZ? If you don't know, shouldn't you find out?
I'm glad I have someone to point to validate myself on this point. Those who do not experience "the zone" consider it half-mystical. (Although many of those who do experience "the zone" consider it fully mystical.) My TTZ (Time To Zone) runs between 10 minutes to half-an-hour, which appears average.
Joel on Software Where do these people get their (unoriginal) ideas?: "With programmers, it's especially hard. Productivity depends on being able to juggle a lot of little details in short term memory all at once. Any kind of interruption can cause these details to come crashing down. When you resume work, you can't remember any of the details (like local variable names you were using, or where you were up to in implementing that search algorithm) and you have to keep looking these things up, which slows you down a lot until you get back up to speed."
Poetic justice, in a sick sort of way. "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword." 
Dr. Dre Sued By Lucasfilm: "One day after taking legal aim at Napster, Dr. Dre is now the target of a high-profile legal salvo himself.... Lucasfilm's suit, which seeks unspecified damages, hinges on Dre's use of something called the "THX Deep Note," a sound trademarked by Lucas' company. According to Lucasfilm, the sound is the first ever to be trademarked; it should be familiar to moviegoers as the sound that accompanies the THX logo before films screened in theaters with THX sound systems."