i've just installed it and it's a wonderful feeling!

Few comments:

- the program works by recognizing as dialled the digit that you are dragging clockwise, not the one that is aligned to the metal stopper by the time you release it, i.e. the digit is chosen at the point of touching. However you still have to drag it all the way to the stopper for it to be chosen.

- there is no satisfying sound of clicking during the clockwise rotation, but there is one when you release it during the counterclockwise return of the wheel. However, it's the same amount of sound and rotation for each digit, i.e. it's the same sound for '1' and for '0'.

- i would add quasi-haptics in form of battery vibration if you drag over the metal stopper, indicating impossible action.

- The same repository seems to have loads of nice software for the iphone, but unfortunately for me all of it is in French and none in Macedonian.

the "surreal" bit i think comes partly from the technique called HDR (the photo on the right, for instance), which technique is used to have everything lit on the same photo by blending 3 or more photos taken of the same but with different expositions.

Bruce's email address is exposed to the extent it gets harvested by many humans as well. I would not trust a spam he received on his "well" address...
:)

The table is incorrect (agree with #2), but it is also misleading (agree with #3 and also the easy communication with aliens in Contact is not a problem). A problem is, for example, unexplained gravity on spaceships like Galactica.

Soviet Union? Stronger than ever :)

They got the balls alright, but i agree with #17, it looks like a fourteen century prank.

I wonder what's the oldest recorded prank...

Vernor Vinge is an absolute genius to place such a moral dilemma in that example Cory mentioned: would you destroy all the paper books in order to secure high-fidelity and complete digital copies that you cannot touch but you can data-mine forever, or would you feel bewildered?

When I bought my copy of Rainbow's End, I typed the first sentence of the book into the search engine and got a link where the complete book was pasted, by the author himself, in plaintext. Maybe it was meant to be hidden through simple steganography, but got harvested by search engines, but I can see it's still there: http://www.vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html.

So, if you wanted to see what Cory meant in his example, open the page and search (ctrl-f) for Librareome... and then buy the book :)

A staple can kill an ice-cream. It was a real threat.

Policeman Don Petrelli is a hero.

Or, you can become a tipping bureaucrat, by purchasing one of these:

http://www.tipping.org/tipcards.html

And to think that Russia is in a middle of a month-long campaign for Duma election as we speak.

@22 the election is called for 5th January. Maybe you can contact your government to become an international observer. Tbilisi is wonderful even in winter.

There is a possibility the sods only stole the truck minus mud-flaps, the DVD and the dried plants. They started watching the inserted when the cops framed in.

Those two looked totally gang-pressed.

In as much as the cover suggests That God is a robot or an enhanced that needs a clean room for his engineering, i believe that the notion of his existence is preposterous even to his possible self.

I'm sure that on other worlds they have equally ridiculous notions.

In the cited comment, at least, he seems to comes out of Vinge's singularity closet.
There are more questions than answers, there might be none of the latter. And the sky above the port is now filled with digital artifacts.