I'm up early today. Just added some photos by Zya from Burning Man to flickr just for the hell of it. That hair is going to probably go away. We're on the move now.

On another note, I find from this bit in Fortune that this book is a favorite of Bill Gates. Quote:

Humanity is destined to find and consume more energy, and still more, forever.
...
Fuels recede, demand grows... but logic ascends, and with the rise of logic we attain the impossible—infinite energy, perpetual motion and the triumph of power.

Sounds like late-stage futurism (e.g. approaching facism) to me, except the authors are Regan appointees, not painters. Hmmm.... Also sounds like Bill Gates is still not very smart about the world in spite of making all that money. The rest of the Fortune bit is an interesting read, though. Lots of talk about big-league philanthropy.

Finally, a quick bummer: I caught a headline yesterday explaining that the FCC is using a 1994 law to compel universities, ISPs and other 'net access providers to make survalence of TCP/IP traffic easier, which they claim is needed to fight terrorism, though the DEA is also involved so I think they've got a number of applications in mind. Universities are objecting because they would be forced to shoulder the costs, estimated at over $7B, for the snooping system. They are not raising civil liberties concerns because regular court-orders would be required to use the surveillance system. This as a report of surveillance going on outside the legal channels comes from the FBI. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has background on the law.