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I just bought the Opera web browser for the nintendo ds and am posting from my ds through an unsecured access point while standing out front of future shop.

This is a test of the handwriting recognition.

Ok, cool. I am suitably impressed and pleased with my new toy.

Christian Hammond just posted a blog entry, “Watching you watching me watching you“, that covers an idea that’s been coalescing in the back of my mind for a month or two. It’s basically about the fact that with technology and culture where it is today, we put out a fantastic amount of freely available knowledge about ourselves and that this runs counter to many people’s strong desire for privacy and fear of ‘Big Brother’.
He says it fairly well. Go check it out.

Related book: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

Care of slashdot:
Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human. The purpose? In part at least, organ harvesting for human transplants. I may live forever yet!

I love living in the future. My friend came online and messaged me asking for my help finding something he’d just lost in his apartment, across town. Specifically, he’d put his cell phone down and it had been absorbed by the room. I gave it a call on my cell, and after a few rings he answered with “thanks”. Glad to lend a helping hand.