Tuesday links

11 years ago today: the Blaster worm
Ballpoint pen portraits (via Kottke)
Five ways Trump + GOP officials are undermining the election process (FiveThirtyEight)
XKCD about a seismic pulse (it’s apparently real!)

And:

Belarus is like an sneak preview screening for November.
— Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda (@cmdrtaco) August 11, 2020

Domain name > real name

A domain name may be the most useful type of pseudonym.

It pulls up your site as the first hit when punched into a browser; indeed, it bypasses search altogether.

It’s also globally unique, programmable, persistent, and cross-culturally understood.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 11, 2020

More people should start companies.
— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) May 28, 2020

Windows 10 has 1 billion active users.
MacOS has 100 million active users.

Still blows my mind that there are 10x as many Windows 10 users as Mac users 🤯

PS: There are 300 million active iPadOS users.
— Matt Ronge (@mronge) August 10, 2020

Tuesday links

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Dave Paola