How is it that I haven't heard of gumstix before? Linux machines the size of a stick of gum that run off of 5V power supplies... wow. One of those suckers + wifi expansion + AirSnarf + clever concealment at a wifi-enabled cafe = all kinds of mayhem. You can get a lot done with 200MHz.

And, for the less nefarious, here's where I saw the link: a magic random wifi iTunes player. Neat!

My interview with the Shmoo Group is up on DCist, if anyone's interested in reading it. Their DC-based convention kicks off on Friday. I would've loved to have gone (esp. after they offered me a press pass so I wouldn't have to shell out hundreds of dollars). But this weekend I'll be in Chicago instead, having an even better time (albeit a slightly less nerdy one). Oh well — next year, I guess.

somebody should take this nyt article about the dynamics and lives of the transient inhabitants of a nyc apartment building and apply it to an internet community, like the commenters over at unfogged or making light or an IRC channel. i participated once in an IRC channel that had twice the drama of these people. they like to party? they sleep with each other? they live above a cupcake shop?! PSHAW. you weren't seein nuthin until you were spending four hours a day on the dalnet radiohead channel (not the "official" radiohead channel; the supercool secretish one) that i was when i was 17. the drama was beyond belief: deep and, i assure you, seriously intellectual conversations; rampant flirting; backstabbing when ops stole control from other ops and banning was raging. all set to the sounds of "ok computer" and "the bends." MADNESS, PEOPLE. madness.

and thus my nerd roots are revealed. as if they hadn't been multiple times before.