All it takes is some WordPress and a lot of typing. Sure, I went broke trying to start it, it trashed my life and I work all the time, but other than that, it wasn’t that hard to figure out.

Choire Sicha, if that is his real name, discussing the process of starting (and popularizing) The Awl.

Plenty of reasons the US has slower internet speed on average, some that may rise to the level of: perfectly reasonable. But, I really wonder just how many of these sorts of charts the US has to rank in the average to mediocre range of before somebody, somewhere gives a damn? I mean, honestly. Just how pathetic (née bathetic) does the USA #1 chant have to get before we start doing something in this country again?