Your new bill for DIRECTV account 1234567890 is now available online. Your total amount due is No Payment Due. Payment is due by No Payment Due.

DirecTV, in the statement emailed to me today. How can such a simple problem be solved so poorly?

It was later that afternoon when Steve and I realized we had a common problem with finding new and interesting content every morning (and again when we were bored at class during the day, or in the library, or…) I was the one with about twenty tabs open and Steve had long been a Slashdot user and student of great community content. Somehow it became the problem we’d solve, Paul Graham seized it and aptly titled our quest, ‘building the front page of the web.’