Mobile Junkies Reshaping Society? – Wired article on new Rheingold book.

Rheingold also makes the case that mobile technology has altered teenage etiquette. After a series of talks with cell-phone-toting Tokyo teenagers, Rheingold concludes that being on time is no longer a matter of concern for the mobile crowd. As long as one is reachable by short message service (SMS) or phone, being late is a non-issue.

A couple of months ago I was having dinner with a friend who had just gotten back from a stint of ‘converting the heathen’ [*snicker*] in Taiwan, and he mentioned how weird it was that people don’t SMS in the US.

Hmm, seeing as I’ve gone at least two post without mentioning the hiptop, I’ll just say that this might change things…

In a bizarre turn of events, the /. discussion on Eldred v Ashcroft has a great number of very insightful, interesting and astute observations. Perhaps Lessig truly does embiggen us all.

Recently, Anil kicked off a small furor based on my complaints about how the hiptop handles CSS media-types (I had sent a note to Danger on that a while ago). Despite it’s severity, I could still let it slide (hiptop, I forgive you because I love you). But now this, this is just unacceptable. Can’t you respect the love and care and vision that has gone into this page? Its visual fidelity, the background and foreground elements, the very message are completely obliterated! Unacceptable!

Some weekends the blog gets love, some weeks it doesn’t. This will probably be one of those doesn’t weeks. I’ve imposed a crazy deadline for myself at work. Also teaching a Basic Photoshop class again later today (I wasn’t intending to teach these but my partner had jury duty. Oops. Oh hey, today, I went through most of the Intermediate stuff yesterday…). Dinner Wednesday. Bright Eyes @ the Henry Fonda Thursday. Maybe I’ll get around to either some spare-time coding on Friday, if I don’t go out. Oh, and I need to do some lawyer-hunting in between as well.

Of course, I’m sure that schedule doesn’t compare to some others. If there’s one blog to be following in the coming months, it’s Lawrence’s.

Steven Levy follows up on his earlier paeon to Lessig in a new article on the Eldred v Ashcroft case (starting in a few hours!) for Newsweek entitled Glitterati vs. Geeks:

The irony about scottandrew‘s post on the Web Standards blog about the hiptop happily mangling CSS is that of course it happily is. The post is unreadable on the hiptop. (I was testing to see if my referer viewer worked on my hiptop during lunch [it does] and noticed the incoming link)

Iraq’s Dr. Germ – the deadliest woman alive. Thank you Mr. Reagan!

Back then, secular Iraq was an ally against Iran’s Islamic fundamentalists, and the Reagan administration okayed the mailings of dozens of samples of anthrax, botulinum toxin, E. coli, a gangrene-causing bacteria and West Nile .

Hmm, topical: The great cell phone tax ripoff

Cam mentions that the RIM thumbboard suing business might affect the hiptop. My understanding is that because it’s laid out horizontally, the hiptop doesn’t use angled keys, so a lawsuit is pretty unlikely.

Anil’s shower comments are great. My favorite is #3:

Sometimes I like to clean the shower while I’m in the shower. It makes me feel like I’m returning a favor.

Brad Choate just released Sanitize, a MT plugin, which is just a reminder that I was gonna repackage and release my own sanitizer… um, about 6 months ago. Ok, upping the priority on that.

Also at Brad’s site, this is great: Nasdaq Threatens to Delist Nasdaq.