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A map of Intra-regional network traffic in Asia, pulled from the data-filled 2008 traffic map.

According to TeleGeography, the amount of internet traffic routed through the US has dropped from around 90% before 2000 to just above 50% in 2008.

See also: 2008 TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map.

(via infranet lab)

is that fat HK-China line cause HK is proxied through the Great Firewall? if so thats crazy.


In all the bad dystopian future scifi movies I’ve ever seen, they never mention that the mysterious private corporation that will be performing the biometric scans would be so upscale I’d felt underdressed for my retina scan because I wasn’t wearing a tie.

(via daringfireball)

the beerbelly site linked in the article is hilarious.