I remember that at the back of old 2600 magazines, they used to have pictures of phone booths from across the world. Maybe they still do I, I haven’t seen one of those in a while.

Well this idea definitely is worth noting: using humans with cell phones as phone boxes with legs. Imaginative solution for a common problem.

[Via Smart mobs]

update: My favorite LDC connectivity specialist informs me that Bangladesh saw people adopting a similar situation where individuals would start a business reselling cell phone time. The idea snowballed.

Réponse du député péruvien Villanueva Nuñez à Microsoft

Oulah, un échange soutenu qui vaut bien la peine d’être au moins survollé.

[via Remolino]

Sometimes around 6 or 7 AM a mail rule my computer makes a special sound. It’s the Cla morning (well, noon) news updates. Somewhere (ok, I know exactly where) someone had a small thought for an old sleeping friend. It does help me start my day better than Corn Flakes. Thanks Cla!

So today we have old news (which incidentally I had missed back then so it’s ok): Kazaa gets the green light

And we have new news: first a NYT article on DRM . good read. scary read. sad read. I never considered DRM bad per se, but like anything, abusing something is never good.

Then an article on Intellectual property: an interview with the EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann. He’s the EFF’s attorney and this is another valuable read, revolving around the idea that « It makes you wonder whether the fight is actually about piracy, or if it’s instead about asserting control over new technologies. « 

He also states the tragically obvious: « If the precedents being made today were on the books 20 years ago, we would never have seen the photocopier, the VCR, or the CD recorder . »

Oh, and I’ll try reading in Safari today. I used to read long texts in OmniWeb but Safari seems to have fairly good anti aliasing too.