Recommended Watching

• The Suprising History of Copyright
  • This Google tech talk lays out the history of copyright law from its origins in the 1600's
• the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
  • The history and problems of copyright law in relation to culture traced through the history of this short often used sample from a 1969 R&B albumn
• Computer Networks - The Heralds of Resource Sharing
  • Documentary featuring the engineers of the ARPANET talking about why the created it & how it works
• Lessig on Corruption
  • Larry Lessig is shifting his focus from copyright law to anti-corruption law & here's a little lecture about why
• High Voltage Cable Inspection
  • lovely short documentary
• Internet & Empires - Lauren Weinstein's Talk @ Google - prophecy of doom for google
• FRONTLINE: spying on the home front - how the government is spying on us
• the Constitution in Crisis - bill moyers special on the shadow government
• Pentangle on YouTube
• Hacker documentary
  • some amazing glasses and beards in this one

Recommended Reading

• 5 cool wireless research projects worth checking out
  • Some interesting new proposals for wireless technologies, including a paper from some MIT researchers discussing the use of our existing home-grown wireless technologies to provide ubiquitous wi-fi
• Wireless Community Networks
  • fundamentals of wireless networking
• Wireless Hacks
  • wireless h4x0r1ng
• City of Quartz
  • vision of the modern L.A. metropolis
• Radius
  • Securing Public Access to Private Resources
• Liniux Advnaced Network Adminitrators Guide
  • Everything you ever need to know about running your own network, large or small

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Wireless Communities

• Western Sonoma County Internet Cooperative
• Neighbornodes
• Wireless Nomad
• Seattle Wireless
• Personal Telco
• NYC Wireless
• Southern California Wireless User Group
• Meraki
• FON
• LA Wi-Fi

Wireless Software

• DD-WRT
• OpenWRT
• Coova
• NoCat