...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

• 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.

drainage
fence
aesthetics
cost
maintenance
snow
table

Those of us who tend the land
set about to planting
The rest do what we can

• I may have the LP in the garage somewhere but we don't have a turntable set up.
• Google finds nothing:
• http://www.google.com/#q="those+of+us+who+tend+the+land"
• http://www.google.com/#q="set about to planting"
• http://www.google.com/#q="the rest do what we can"

• Web 2.0
• 14:22 After the internet bubble burst, what was the difference between businesses that succeeded and those that failed?
• 15:00 Hardware, Software and Infoware
• Given in 1997 in Wurtzburg at the same conference where Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
• The web is what open source ought to be paying attend to, not Linux.
• The Open Source Paradigm Shift
• How many of you use Linux
• How many of you use Google
  
• Dave Stutz
  • On Leaving Microsoft
  • "There's plenty of money to be made building software above the level of a single device"
  • Software commoditization
  • PC commoditized hardware -> value moved to software
  • Open source commoditized software -> value moved to the database
  http://twit.tv/floss73