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Battletorrent: making BitTorrent "completely effortless for complete neophytes":
Instead of downloading the torrent file, the user downloads an executable that contains a fully functional bittorrent client and the torrent file (say, "The_Grey_Album.torrent"). When the user runs it, the program begins downloading the Grey Album. The user can get files using bittorrent without needing to know or understand what bittorrent is.
Clay Shirkey's The Possibility of Spectrum as a Public Good. Yet another recap of why radio interference is no longer a problem, and how this should change FCC regulation policy. Very short and to the point for such a complex issue. Best summary yet.
Blobjects to Spimes, Bruce Sterling's 2004 SIGGRAPH speach.
Back from vacation. Little Compton, Rhode Island was beautiful once again. This was my second year at the same location, although over the winter they knocked down the house and built a new one in its place.
I hurt my back and spent much of the week laying on the floor, but oddly this didn't upset me too much. I managed to sit up for the fabulous meals.
Also I left my cellphone on the windowsill one night where it got drenched with rain. When I turned it on I just got a sickly yellow blinking screen. I tried to reboot it a few times over the next couple of days, but never had any luck. Now this morning, after sitting for many days and completely draining the battery, I plugged it in and it appears to work. Occasionally the screen will get this jittery thing, but otherwise it appears okay. I am surprised because the thing got *wet*.
Anyway, it's very nice to be back in the center of the world.