This was linked from the Slashdot discussion about that RSS feed. Its worth a look. Some interesting discussion in here about how practical the bit-torrent model is when people have asymetric connections.

konspire2b: a revolution in mass-scale content distribution

Reading this article gave me a fucking headache. If I have to hear someone say the word disruptive, or "win-win" one more time my head will explode. Please, journalists, when asking the technical community to write software for you, please try to refrain from using baby talk. The reason the systems you propose don't exist yet isn't because no one has thought of them, but because no one has time to build them.

Having said that, I'm recommending this article because these are fairly reasonable ideas. Yes your RSS aggregator should be signing up to receive a message anytime something new pops up, instead of going around to 1000 machines and asking every few minutes. As for using bit-torrent as an RSS feed distribution mechanism, yes, but no. Bit-torrent shouldn't know anything about RSS or vice-versa. My take is that bit-torrent should be pushed down below the applications, and it ought to cache any web page you hit if the owner marks it as cachable. Any url you try to pull should get pulled from bit-torrent first, if available.

This would take an apache plugin and something that looks like a driver to windows which sits between the ethernet and tcpip stacks MITMing http connections...

I thought about this two years ago. Why doesn't it exist? Cause no one pays people to write software like that.

Yahoo! News - BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution

] The Sun, the Moon, and two photographers all lined up
] last month in Antarctica during an unusual total eclipse
] of the Sun.

Wow.

An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse

] As solutions to these alleged failures of globalization,
] dissidents frequently appear to favor politically imposed
] systems, employing the power of the state to override the
] outcomes arrived at through voluntary exchange. The
] historical record of such approaches does not offer much
] encouragement. One would be hard pressed to cite examples
] of free and prosperous societies that suppressed the
] marketplace.

[IP] Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan Before the World AffairsCouncil

Annalee Newitz offers an interesting observation on the grayness of the hacker scene. SFOBug is one of the most elite open meetings of computer geeks that I'm aware of.

SFOBUG - Fyodor Article

American military officials confirmed today that Saddam Hussein had been captured alive in Tikrit on Saturday night.

They confirmed that it was him based on DNA evidence.

Not that I suspect they have the wrong guy, but this IS bullshit. You can't confirm identity using DNA tests. DNA tests can prove that someone is not the same as the person who contributed the sample material, but not the other way around.

In Baghdad, huge crowds celebrated in the streets with gunfire.

Saddam Hussein Captured Alive; Iraqis Celebrate

] Here we have the old courthouse in Biloxi, Mississippi, (left)
] and its 1970s replacement (right) -- the sublime and the ridiculous.
] The old building is garbed in the architectural vestments of authority
] in decorum. The new courthouse invokes arbitrary bureaucratic
] despotism.

This is an absolutely hillarious cynical commentary on the bad architecture we see every day.

Yes the Bat building in Nashville is included. Someone needs to send this guy a photo of that fucking statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest on I-65. Not only is that a horrible statement, but they didn't even have the decency to make a proper statue. Its this multi-colored plastic thing. Ugh...

Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler

Many of these rules, reflections and quotations came from my role as Chairman of the "transition team" for President Gerald R. Ford and my service as White House Chief of Staff. Others came from experiences as a U.S. Naval Aviator, a Member of Congress, Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Secretary of Defense, Presidential Middle East Envoy, business executive, Chairman of the US Ballistic Missile Threat Commission, and other experiences. These reflections and quotations have been gathered over the past 40 years.

There are many good rules here, but here is my personal selection:

1. Learn to say "I don’t know." If used when appropriate, it will be often.

2. It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

3. Don’t divide the world into "them" and "us."

4. Keep your sense of humor.

5. If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

6. Don’t be a bottleneck.

7. Look for what's missing.

8. For every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.

9. Simply because a problem is shown to exist doesn’t necessarily follow that there is a solution.

10. If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

Rumsfeld's Rules

Colin Powell kept a set of rules on his desk. Here are a few:

Get mad, then get over it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

Check small things.

Share credit.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Powell's Rules

Guys, thats most evil. Its pure evil. Evil Evil Evil...

"If you know my name
don't speak it out
it holds a power..."
- Einstuerzende Neubauten : Chrysantemum

evil