It’s an eye-opening story about taking control of the technology, surveillance, personal freedoms in the post-911 world and, last but not least, teen angst. Made me wish I was 20 years younger. Or that my daughters were 10 years older – so I could make them read it.

I really liked it a lot, and apart from the fact that I can’t stop telling everyone I know about it, it inspired me to make a nice wallpaper image for all the techno-paranoid iPhone owners out there.

And of course, keeping in the spirit of Little Brother’s CC license, you’re free to remix it, play with it and pass it along.

I’ve been having an extremely crappy day today, everything irritates me, so I’m trying to hack my mood by thinking hard about ten things I like. That’ll show me!

Twitter
Took me a while to get into it, probably a question of having the right tool for me. So it wasn’t until I recently installed TwitterFon on my iPhone that I really got into it. At the same time the Twitterfox plugin for Firefox was updated for my FF 3.1 beta 2 , so I strated getting a real deluge of tweets, from everywhere, all the time, yadda yadda yadda, you know how it is. If you don’t, signup for Twitter and follow me. www.twitter.com/fran6co

Blogging on the bus
I actually started writing this post on the 55 going north up Saint-Laurent. With the WordPress iPhone app. It’s slow typing but it CAN be done, which fills me with joy.

Hulu.com
I haven’t turned my TV on in a while thanks to hulu.com. Combined with HotSpot Shield, which allows you to connect to the service from outside the US, I can now stop relying on the Torrents for my Battlestar Galactica fix. HSS also works with all the other localized streaming TV services, like all the major networks, so if you missed Letterman last night, you can still check it out.

Sillages
Jean-David Morvan and Philippe Buchet have been creating this Bande Dessinée called Sillage for a long while now, I just discovered it recently (#11 has just come out). I’m catching up form whatever I can get at the library, so not in the right order, but each episode can stand by itself. The main character, Nävis, is the only human living in a gigantic caravan of travelling spaceships (imagine Battlestar Galactica with a zillion races, thousands of ships, and only one human). So of course the main storyline is her trying to find out who she is, and what she is, having no other humans to model her behaviour. Plus she’s a kick-ass hottie.

Downloading comics
Yeah so it seems this weird «scanner» technology has been developed, which allows you to create these «cbr» or «cbz» files, that you can then send through the tubes, and then you get to read a comic book on your computer screen. Like movies, and music? Yes. Wow. Comics on screen ? I’ll get back to you on that.

Maple syrup
Natural, fair, organic, no shit added, living in a can. Probably ten times more expensive than it should be, but it’s better than refined slave-collected sugar.

Ok so that’s just six things, but my mood has greatly improved (it WORKED!!!) and I’m sitting too close to the window at this café, and my hands are getting cold, so I’m a gonna head on home and catch ya later.

Probably won’t last very long, since it’s FUN and has something to do with MUSIC. And we all know the music industry is dead set against letting people put those two words together. Anyways, end of rant. Enjoy, this is like what radio should/could be like.

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