Another absent voice of a different flavor? 

I wonder if Steve Gillmor was invited to speak at Office 2.0. Doesn't that seem like a natural, unless it's all about startups. Maybe that's it. I'll see what the others think about adding his voice to Anne's podcast jam.

Mining and subways 

At work we've been covering MSHA improvements proposed since the recent mining disasters. One thing they're working on is better communication underground. It made me wonder if whatever new technology they come up with might be extended (a la NASA and Tang) to wifi reception in subways.

Imagination wins 

Found this sig in an Adobe forum. I think I'd seen something like it before, but it cheered me a little after a frustrating day and night of not being able to get the right file formats working together for a CD-ROM project:

Intelligence trumps muscle; imagination trumps both

Looking to get off cheap 

Anyone know of a good free or very cheap SWF decompiler? Needs to export not just individual elements but the .fla file.