Regardless my absolute disgust for any sort of censorship, I must admit that it would be quite interesting to look, through a sociologist-like point of view, how a whole nation has developed (or not developed) without any string attached to the rest of the world, to know what the people there are thinking and what's their idea of the rest of the world. Too bad it's almost impossible to get there and roam around for a western citizen.

Here's a great photo essay for anyone else fascinated by this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/sets/721576048127...

and here some other travel journals: http://www.blogjam.com/north-korea/

While a VPS or a Cloud solution may provide you greater flexibility for the reasons explained by pedoh, in my personal experience dedicated servers are better served in terms of bandwidth and throughput stability. At the current state-of-the-art however, I'd choose VPS over dedicated anytime (as long as it's cheaper).

Even if this 'bingoogle' thing is lasting one day only, not having the chance to turn it off is quite annoying, actually.

If you 'Change' the background image, there's one with just a white background, which effectively takes it back to what you're used to. It isn't exactly 'turning it off' per se, but it's probably what you want, regardless.

To be honest, I'm a bit more impressed by the flash-like capabilities of raphael.js rather than the icon set itself. It's great stuff. http://raphaeljs.com/

Last time I checked it out, it was intolerably slow on a low-end machine. Now, on that same machine but with the latest Chrome beta, the performance is perfectly tolerable. Looks like gRaphaël is going to be something I might want to use someday after all, so thanks for making me look again.

FWIW, I just tried some of their demos on the iPad and.. feels pretty normal. I know the iPad isn't the slowest of the slow but it's JavaScript engine is miles behind even the slowest ones on desktop machines.

The moleskine notebook

Carbon-14? /jk

I might be a rampant first-time entrepreneur wannabe, but I still believe ideas have a little value. I'd rather say: Bad ideas are worthless, great execution makes the difference.

In daylight, consultant/business analyst at major IT company, during the night, I put togheter jquery, css, rails, perl scripting, dedicated servers and obscure new stuff to build my contribution of innovation to the human society.

It's pretty much like buying land. It's not like it's unethical to buy land if you have no plans of building an house on it, imho.

It's pretty much like claiming "new" land, to use an American analogy - you pay a small administrative fee, that's all.

Is it ethical to claim as much land as possible, for the sole purpose of selling it in the future to people who had the misfortune to come later? It's clearly legal, but it's also abuse of a common good.

Good point, it wouldn't affect javascript based stats, but it's surely going to mess up with webserver log-based analytics such as webalizer, awffull etc..