I first met Kyle in what? 1995, I think it was. Pretty sure, yeah. Sometime later I went to visit him in his upper-mid-lower Manhattan web design sweatshop just as Agency.com was getting off the ground. He cashed that puppy out for a goodly chunk before the sky fell in and is now -- for his many infractions against God and man -- living in the... burbs.

Fortunately for us, it's driving him batshit.

Kyle is profiled in this cleverly undated piece in FastCompany. "It's going to take a good, long time for companies to decide how to use the Internet," he said, about 1000 web-years ago. Got that right. First they thought it was teevee, now they think it's an iPod. But hey, let's not be cruel. Give em another 20-30 years, they'll be clickin' right along. Yeah, the translucent white people of New Canaan, CT. You can go read -- and listen! -- all about them right here, at...

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