When I was young, I thought the point of the body was to protect the brain. Now I realize it’s the other way around. The brain exists to protect the body. There are two kinds of animals – those who move and those who don’t. Animals who don’t move count on a stable and predictable environment and replicate like crazy to compete for scarce resources, and to outlast environmental changes. More

“Say, that’s a nice ad business you got there. It’d be a real shame if something were to happen to it…” Ok, so . But, when Microsoft decides that it doesn’t want Google’s revenue stream as much as it wants Google gone, why wouldn’t it do this? And what’s wrong with helping consumers filter out unwanted content on the Internet?  – I’ve created a monster. More

Just take a look at the domain name sales on DNJournal – Fish.com goes for over $1 Million! Alarm clock, otherwise a great resource, is still living in the pre-bubble days, when domain sales of $100k were news. More

Time Bray has it right. In the future, every site can carry search. All Microsoft has to do is to give the revenues from any potential search to the site carrying it. Two big assumptions: MSN Search has to be as good as Google search (not there yet, but possible) Microsoft is willing to forego the Google ad revenue stream in exchange for severely crippling Google. More

People hate immigration and immigrants as it’s seen as competing with newcomers over finite resources in a zero-sum game. This argument is flawed on many economic levels, but let’s overlook that for a moment. Let’s give everyone a stake. Suppose that we gave every US citizen an extra passport – a blank one. More