The Register: "We were interested to learn that Apple's original patent application [covering desktop themes] was made a mere eight days after well-established UI enhancements-oriented Web site Themes.org was launched, on 25 April 1998."

Kante brings spring. A few years ago I saw Kante at TU-Club, and I've been sold on them ever since. I don't know their new album yet except for a few tracks, but their music used to be very sober and intimate at the same time. That combination first struck my adolescent rowdy south-tyrolean self when listening to Suzanne Vega's first album at age 14 or 15. Plus, with Kante it's Rockmusik - real drums and stuff. Now I heard that a friend of ours already got us tickets for the Kante show in Berlin, but I think I'll have to check them out tomorrow here in Vienna already. (No, seriously, this time I mean it!)

Clay Shirky: View Source... Lessons from the Web's massively parallel development

A more recent article by Shirky that gets me thinking. Once I said that P2P had been invented primarilly as a copyright prevention scheme. I now think that I was wrong, and that the big motivator behind P2P is IT department prevention. IT department prevention really means the same as decentralization, but it's a much better term, because it explains what's really going on: "You Hate the IT department, and They Hate You Right Back." Maybe the reason I didn't get this until now is that I used to be my own IT department for so long.

*LOL* (seen somewhere at AmIAllYourBaseOrNot)

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