Brian Aker on Amazon v. Google. He links to Jesse Vincent's presentation "Digital Sharecropping", which is of interest as well. Related: Stallman's right.

"What stimulating times to be cursed with thinking like a science fiction writer." Chris Nakashima-Brown on the current financial crisis. Related: Charles Stross says you can't write near-future science fiction anymore. (It's like the singularity all over again.)

People continue to die:


Douglas Rushkoff, "No Money Down"

Post Dérive is, like Anarchaia and Versus CluClu Land, a blog I wait for posts from.



Snow falling on Mars:


Experimental Philosophy in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Malware Challenge!