"Could humans at any point in history, given the right information, construct an electronic communication network? To test this hypothesis, Substitute Materials will attempt to build a functional electric battery and telegraph switch from materials found in the wilderness, using no modern tools except information from the internet. The telegraph will be a first step towards an ahistorical internet." via?

despite a seemingly lame reason for doing so (publisher's rights), Google has been forced to embark on the largest real life (newspapers, trade journals, etc.) legal notice campaign to notify authors of orphaned books that they must opt in or out of Google Book Search

phatics, assent terms, etc.

Nonverbal Dictionary

how less ShareShareAlike might be a bad thing for creativity (via stephen)

douglas davis satellite performance

on point

I tried this today, it is amazing

non-technical explanation of information theory as it pertains to communication