The fact that we're even having a network neutrality debate is indicative of the monopoly or oligopoly most of us are stuck with when it comes to internet access.

Also indicative of artificial scarcity, in that there aren't public networks offering high speed net access via fiber, wireless, etc.

rose white's session at this year's 24C3 addressed proprietary versus open knitting, knowledge-sharing and innovation by showing that through history, "guerilla knitting" was actually a subversive craft. in her words, "for decades there have been knitters and other textile artists who are at least as punk rock as today's needle-wielders".

this awesome poppy number has gained recent fame. milsom's super cute website also features music he made on a gameboy (which kinda sounds like every indie film soundtrack since 2005..). look for this track on mixtape: love drug 3, coming soon!

I'm always excited about the progressions of geek chic (especially these particularly awesome manifestations of techno-fashion mesh. video here, fun starts around 12 mins..). but while most of us are trying to give our sisters some good wholesome positive props, our half-assed attempts at fierce-ifying geeky girls are totally missing the boat. this is because we still lack the language to understand geeky girls who didn't become hackers by blogging about being grounded for life or their first prom, as related in this NYT article.. the implications are actually just as dangerous as they are infuriating, that women could only be interested in technology via their own superficial interests like glittering their myspace page.