The Internet is about to become much more interesting.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just approved unlimited new top level domain names, and not just in Roman characters, starting in 2009.

.atheist anyone? How about .pagan?

By request of pocketlama, here is a photo of me in my 1997 Halloween costume, while a student on Semester at Sea. The theme of Halloween that year was "Things we had seen on our voyage." I had just spent the past few weeks visiting multiple Buddhist temples all over Asia, so this outfit seemed natural. (And for the record, that's a Buddhist swastika, not a Nazi one.)