Travel companions, part 1

By the way, I recommend flying with an eeePC. It provides one sufficient space on an otherwise useless tray table for one's bound copies of medieval theory, and also for one's iPod.

Arse Elektronika notes and .mp3

I've just returned from a long weekend in San Francisco, where I had the honor of participating in monochrom's Arse Elektronika 2008. I hope to have a more comprehensive missive about just what was discussed and what I learned in the coming days. For now, you can read my notes--minus a few last-minute additions--or listen to the .mp3. The audio can be found on the Arse Elektronika website, and text can be found here, on what I like to call "the old site" (I've got some problems with it, but for now it seems to be the best way to post such large volumes of text).

Enjoy, and leave some comments. Nothing is too combatative or unfounded an argument for the Internet, or for these trying times in American democracy. Attack! Attack!