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from Pinboard Network RSS Improver http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=b22b9c9acee5906aab7e8a7645a247a9 "We haven’t lost yet, but we have to win the copyright war first if we want to keep the Internet and the PC free and open. Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policies for them; to examine and terminate the software processes that runs on them; and to maintain them as honest servants to our will, not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks."Source: http://pinboard.in/

"TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals."

profile of the Cloud's first officer

"I plead guilty to Kamla's charge: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we're trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on. "

Good overview here. interesting bit on how TC undermines the GPL.

memristors are so called because they have the ability to "remember" the amount of charge that has flowed through them after the power has been switched off

what the people in the book have done since the book was published.

an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

good stop for a glimpse of Arduino enabled physical computing examples

"We're transferring our intelligence into the machine, and the machine is transferring its way of thinking into us." (also a good Kubrick observation)

the computer biz is overdue for commoditization

A strange new family of algorithms probes the boundary between easy and hard problems (does P = NP?)

the cloud is the belated arrival of massively parallel computing

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Experiments using the Nintendo Wii as a wireless 3D interface device. The Wii is a (wireless) Bluetooth device and as such one can readily create applications that access the Bluetooth data and respond accordingly.