Turn on, tune in, log on. Need proof that computers were once a part of the counterculture? Check out this Creative Computing ad from 1976 drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, part of an online reprint of Best of Creative Computing Volume 1. From the text:

Creative Computing is the last outspoken bastion of TRUTH in America today. Read it and you shall be free! Contained within these pages are glimpses of mind-blowing REALITY as it REALLY is!

Two examples of reality as it really is: Hunt the Wumpus by Gregory Yob and ASCII art of Mister Spock. [Workbench] 
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Paul Boutin: Wi-Fi for Dummies. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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RSS buzzing at Yahoo. Yahoo has added several RSS feeds for its Buzz Index, a feature that tracks the most popular current search terms overall and for several entertainment categories. [Workbench] 
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BusinessWeek on Blogs: The Wild World of "Open-Source Media". [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Watch java.net. Sun is doing something big with java.net.  If Sun is a hornet's nest, they have peeled back much of the skin around the nest with java.net, exposing a wild variety of interesting activities that invite the Java developer community at large to join them through a mixture of weblogs, wiki, directories, repositories, and pseudo-magazines.

End result is, well, confusing.  But, it is an enjoyable kind of confusion, not unlike being dropped into a new city being built.  If it was a city, I would say the city center is the Java Today page.  Drop in and check it out.  Unless I misread between the lines, I think there is a new bold attitude at work here. [Don Park's Blog]

 
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