Our intentions were so good

Regret, both dark and light, plus pop-ups, labradoodles, and the worst font. Also, 7 other things worth your time

We're in a time of chaos now. From chaos, we get progress. Sometimes however, the price of progress is regret.

It can be a big, dark, scary kind of regret, or a lighter regret.

Dark regret would be like, say, Albert Einstein regretting his role in the development of atomic weapons, or Mikhail Kalashnikov waiting until he was near death to admit his "unbearable ... spiritual pain" for having developed the AK-47 assault rifle, or Alfred Nobel regretting his invention of dynamite.

But the lighter regret is more or less harmless, as we stumble amiably on the path to the future.

Since it’s Friday (public service: YES, TODAY IS FRIDAY, in case you’re like me and can barely keep track), there’s no need to go to the dark side.

Let’s focus instead on these happy inventors who later looked back and said, yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have done that. We’ll probably be seeing a few more of them on the other side of our current chaos.

The inventor of the pop-up Internet ad

The consumer Internet was very ne…