have read/will read dept.

o An update on Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project
o A Los Angeles Times profile of musician/teacher/DJ Barry Smolin. Shmo is a way righteous dude.
o A history of the Viele Map, which surveys the waterways of old Manhattan.
o An essay by virtual reality inventor Jaron Lanier about the dangers of online collectivism (and subsequent weigh-ins from other digerati).
o A conversation between MPAA president Dan Glickman and EFF rabble-rouser John Perry Barlow.
o The mysterious fiction excerpts William Gibson has been posting to his blog of late.