“The architecture of the Internet, as it is right now,” writes Lawrence Lessig, a constitutional scholar at Harvard University, “is perhaps the most important model of free speech since the founding [of the American republic]. This model has implications far beyond e-mail and Web pages. Two hundred years after the framers ratified the Constitution, the Net has taught us what the First Amendment means. If we take this meaning seriously, then the First Amendment will require a fairly radical restructuring of the architectures of speech off the Net as well.” read the rest

jeez, my life is pretty pathetic right now. wake up, go to work, get back, waste a few hours somehow, go to sleep. repeat. grrr…

one cool thing that i’m doing is re-ripping my cds with LAME. i’m going at about 2 per day. one in the morning, one at night.