The FSF (join!) sent me a copy of Lawrence Lessig’s latest book Free Culture. Cool. I had begun reading the book in PDF format while I was serving Jury Duty (flip the Powerbook sideways and go into full screen w/ Preview.app and you have a decent ebook), but never got around to finishing it. I just finished Imperial Hubris, so I will definitely be throwing it on the queue.

Mama mia that’s a lot a’ CODECs

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I recently saw Brad Barrish’s blog in the ol’ referer logs. His A Garden State Mix is good, definitely less obvious/on point than the actual soundtrack. Also, the new matt pond PA song he has linked is great.

I noticed on his sidebar that he was really blown away by the new U2 single. I’ll be truthful here. I used to be (probably still am) a U2 superfan, but for some reason, I’m not entirely feeling it. (Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the new song, like the bridge is just awesome. shades of the Salome) Maybe it’ll grow on me.

While I’m riffing randomly on music, Audioscrobbler (my profile), my top RFEs:

• Time-based popularity graphs (tracks/track time vs time) – w/ regression curves?
• % and absolute time total graphs (against date)
• Time Zone support
• Longer Recent Tracks List

Unleashed Trailer – an english-language Jet Li movie that won’t suck?

• The Firmware Page Portal – Region free firmware for a *lot* of drives
• cdfreaks NEC forum – useful if you have a ND-3500A (compare to SD-R5372)

• OpenWRT: Storing firewall rules – some interesting discussion on remote loading of rules
• WRT54G – SNMP – more on mapping and graphing data
• OpenWRT: Apps for monitoring traffic? – netsnmp package
• rrdtool tidbits – rrd scripts
• Network Traffic Monitoring with RRDTool – good RRDTool tutorial
• New OpenWRT statistics package
• OpenWRT: Instructions for building on OS X – rather involved. I’ve switched from running ewrt to OpenWRT for more flexibility
• Paul’s Boutique Samples and References List – a large, collaborative effort
• Jose Luis Visual Journal – nice photoblog
• If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? – by the numbers. via rc3

Goatse Rescue Floppy – no matter how you slice it, it’s just plain wrong.

Wow, Aaron’s blogging about his Stanford experience. It wasn’t so long ago that he was a 13yo boy genius, contributing to RFCs, and now he’s off to college already. In light of the closing of “I Found Some of Your Life,” this shall have to be my daily source of vicarious thrills.

Ahh, looks like our public government is preemptively collecting True Names.