RTFA: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Firefox Add-ons

Add-ons extend Firefox, letting you personalize your browsing experience. Take a look around and make Firefox your own.

I don’t know if it’s clear from this image, but there are about 20 firefox addons that have created new buttons in the various toolbars. This is sortof overload, and it comes with quite a learning curve. The future of the Internet looks like this?

RTFA: http://donmurphy.net/board/showthread.php?t=24887&…

yeah this fuck RTFA is trying to cause shit
keep in his face
be polite
you are doing well

I am pleased to announce that RTFA has finally been discovered by Hollywood!

Don Murphy (producer of Transformers, Natural Born Killers, others) barges onto RTFA and posts:

“Found You. On to the next step.”

You haven’t lived until you’ve been Internet-stalked by Don Murphy. Er, I mean “discovered.” Murphy owes us a round of drinks. Seriously, that’s the next step. We’re in the SF Bay Area.

Seems this has to do with Murphy’s wikipedia page. For the record, rtfa.net has no connection to the wikipedia account “RTFA.” For future reference, RTFA is a really common acronym…

Now that Don Murphy has “found” us, you need to subscribe to the RSS feed. RTFA “finds” weird stuff that is worth reading.

RTFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCW

On 24 February 2008, PCCW was blamed for blocking users around the world from accessing the video sharing website YouTube. While attempting to block internet users in Pakistan, following orders from the Pakistani Government, PCCW accidentally blocked all of their users from the website. The blockage spread worldwide via incorrect BGP routing tables published by PCCW, coming originally from PieNet in Pakistan.[1][2]

The information war: this one will rage silently, just beneath the surface, and it will look something like this.

RTFA: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=0802181633…

Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.
“We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN agency’s head of development, Sami al-Murshed, told AFP.
Five undersea cables were damaged in late January and early February leading to disruption to Internet and telephone services in parts of the Middle East and south Asia.

Oh cra…NO CARRIER

RTFA: http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724

I have read through the comments, and references, including those provided
by Koomey (and Slashdot!), and I am happy to say that David Sarokin’s
original answer still comes out on top. Here is how I would phrase the
results;

The best estimate of how much electricity the global internet uses (in
2007) is 868 billion kwhs, or 5.3% of world electricity usage. Given the
many unmeasured variables in this calculation, the actual answer might be
less, more, or exactly the same. Until a more current estimate is compiled,
this estimate remains the best estimate. If you have a more current or
differently calculated estimate, I will be most happy to seriously
entertain it. Simply suggesting that this estimate is incorrect won’t
displace it as the best estimate we have.

RTFA: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/09/john_maed…

a talk of John Maeda at the TED Conference. he talks about paring down to basics, & how he creates clean, elegant art, websites & web tools. in his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working. in this talk, he boils it down to 1 simply delightful way to be.

twofer - Info Aesthetics is a really cool blog. Also, this video is kindof cool.

RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c76yeqQY2ms

Ron Paul takes a moment to talk about the Internet. I depend on the Internet for day-to-day tasks, and all of my peers do too. I hope that Ron Paul doesn’t oppose any form of net neutrality regulation. It’s possible that collusion needs to be actively prevented - I’m not sure US utilities companies have proven that they can responsibly deliver the best service at the best rates.

On the one hand, I strongly support a separation of Internet and Government. On the other hand, I do think the Internet must be tended and cultivated. The ultimate fear is FCC-style regulations that limit the ability of individuals to publish online.

RTFA: http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/05/technology/apple_a…

pple announced Wednesday the first major overhaul of its popular iPod music digital players in nearly two years and slashed the price of its new iPhone.CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a series of iPod upgrades - including more storage and bigger screens - but the showstopper was a new model dubbed the iPod Touch and fashioned after the iPhone.

Apple (down $7.40 to $136.76, Charts, Fortune 500) also announced a new version of its iTunes music store that will allow users to buy songs wirelessly.In iPhone news, Jobs said Apple will discontinue one of the two models sold since late June. The remaining version, with 8 gigabytes of storage, will now sell for $399, or $200 less than before.Investors, however, weren’t happy about the price cut (and neither were iPhone owners). Apple shares closed down 5.1 percent on Wednesday.

Next round of updates from yesterday’s Apple announcements.

RTFA: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/39166e30-5a7f-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html

Economists on both sides of the Atlantic strongly agree that scientific research spending provides measurable impact on economic growth. The moral case for health research is even clearer.

So much for the input side of research. What about the output? After all, paying for research is not enough. We have to get it to the scientists who might use it which, in an increasingly interdisciplinary world, is hard to predict beforehand. In the case of health research, patients are also looking for information - trying to find out whether the latest research shows that oestrogen therapy increases breast cancer risks, or anti-inflammatory drugs the risk of heart disease.

The outputs of scientific research come in a variety of forms, but the most important is an article in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. While some journals, such as those produced by the Public Library of Science, are “open access” - available in full for free online - most are not.They can be extremely expensive. The cost of journals has dramatically outpaced both the rate of inflation and the cost of monographs over the past 15 years. These journals may be available online - but they are behind firewalls, available only on payment of a fee.

…another attempt to make the case for open access to scientific research.