This is very similar to Readability's revenue model and you can see how that turned out. http://blog.readability.com/2012/06/announcement/

I've seen very similar things for sale at gas stations on the side of the highway in Spain. For the long distance commuter.

I think these kinds of services are great but the key logging makes me a little nervous. No... a lot nervous.

I thought it was too :D http://cl.ly/0a2r3l2b331l0B1n141U

> "which seems consistent with the idea that they didn't let the OP win because of follower counts." Or, since you supposedly win with the most retweets, this is a very logical statement

I agree that it is good to make unfair things public but I am pretty weary after seeing so much bullying over this kind of stuff lately (37 Signals debacle for example)

I really enjoyed the hamminess. I found it a pleasure to read.

Agreed, and I found it quite opposed to the stiff boring technical read it could of been. Which I believe was the exact point the author was trying to make at the end of his story.

here's a link to support that http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade...

Or maybe they are just trying to parallelize downloads. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#Parall...

i think i'm in a wormhole!