...possible to glean certain patterns, and one that recurred as regularly as an urban legend was the one about how someone would move into a commune populated by sandal-wearing, peace-sign flashing flower children, and eventually discover that, underneath this facade, the guys who ran it were actually control freaks; and that, as living in a commune, where much lip service was paid to ideals of peace, love and harmony, had deprived them of normal, socially approved outlets for their control-freakdom, it tended to come out in other, invariably more sinister, ways.

Applying this to the case of Apple Computer will be left as an exercise for the reader, and not a very difficult exercise.

http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml
and
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

• OpenBTS is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
• The GSM Software Project: We want to bring together all the folks that are interested in building a gsm receiver.

• Why REST Failed - "ERH complaining (rightfully) that browsers (and web presentation specs) should support PUT and DELETE out-of-the-box. I couldn't agree more. And yes, the title is unnecessarily inflammatory." | http://cafe.elharo.com/web/why-rest-failed/
• Carrot Vs Orange discusses the benefits, drawbacks, and arguments for or against Pie Api approaches "HTTP using GET/POST to a single URI" (Carrot) vs. "HTTP using the REST Architectural Style" (Orange or simply REST). http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/CarrotVsOrangeDiscuss

• http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/now/betsey.htm
• I like it because:
• It includes a trip to a worlds fair by train, including hitching a ride
• I know it's 1876
• The principals are like some wonderful women I know
• Reference to Maine's marine/trade heritage
• Spoiler alert:
• Betsy gets a bit of cash from a vistor. She sallies forth, walking to the station but before she get there she hitches a ride on a frieght. At the Philadelphia Centennial she befriends everyone, buys gifts for here friends and comes home.
• This looks like a great site for all things Sarah Orne Jewett

http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/outloud http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/comment

• Rational Irrationality - The real reason that capitalism is so crash prone by John Cassidy - The New Yorker - October 6, 2009
• Steven Strogatz on sync - TED Talk - See also Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.