Links posted on June 29, 2008
Looking for the Mouse and Better than Free -- both obviously hit close to home for me but are, I think, generally interesting.
If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. ...
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. ... In the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.