General
Cory gave me a few cans of OpenCola (the soda) earlier this week. It's not available in any store!
There's more than one "digital divide", and it's not just about having access to a computer.
I've sent my second unusual EFF letter; the first was to Wired and the second is to the Random House Permissions Department.
I write to request permission to use 544 bytes from the Adobe eBook Edition of The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig. These bytes begin at byte position 160,737 within the eBook and are (in hexadecimal notation) ...
Speaking of letters and copyrights, here's Thomas Jefferson's famous letter (how many people have read the whole thing?) which compares ideas to fire. It's more interesting than my letter to Random House, which compares ideas to random numbers.
BPDG blog work continues apace.
