Not everyone from the dotcom era suffered through the bust. The former CEO of Disney-bought search engine Infoseek now spends all his time sculpting, painting, and playing tennis. [San Jose Mercury News]

Oh that crazy busy world of the 90s! Photojournalist Barton Bishoff YouTubed this classic news feature about "high-tech execs" from the first dot-com boom who live in rural homes out of cell range, with (OMG!) just one phone line. Best line by the commentator: "Goodbye mouse, hello goat."

• "Sorry I haven't posted on my blog..." [the f blog via Boing Boing]

Senator George Allen, whose "I'm not that racist" campaign really didn't need this new information right now, failed to tell Congress about the tech stock options that he earned from three companies from 1998 to 2001.

TechCrunch, the popular tech blog and clearinghouse for dot-com news, today runs a 24-minute documentary on Web 2.0. TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington says Scott Milener had the idea. Milener, the CEO of a search startup called Browster, also speaks in the video.