SF Sketchfest 2018

Rosa went to see a number of our favorites at SF Sketchfest: Judge John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm, Dan Savage

Read more

Get a Gmail Invite

By now you’ve probably heard of gmail, Google’s new mail service. It’s in a “beta test” mode which means they won’t let just anyone sign up. But people who have accounts are issued a few invitations they can give out, so it spreads by word of mouth.

Read more

My Online History

This is a time capsule – written in 2003 to describe how my online life had evolved up to that point. Looking back in 2026, it all feels like ancient history.

Read more

How Linux Changed the World

On August 25, 1991, the world changed. A college student in Finland by the name of Linus (LEE-noos) Torvalds announced his latest project, a new operating system for the 386 PC that uses the Minix filesystem and various GNU utilities. He named it Linux (LIN-ucks).

Read more