P2P in 15 lines of Python. I hereby propose the arrogantly titled Hume's Law: that when a technology can be expressed by printing onto a single T-shirt, attempts to control it can be pronounced failed.

Yeah OK, there is another Hume's law, but mine's way better.

Hollywood goes for BitTorrent: "These people are parasites leeching off the creativity of others"

Hmm. Doesn't that describe most middlemen?

Comic book heroes make it to mobile: "Yes, comics, movies, RPG’s and computer games are invariably on the geek-diet, so this is sure to rake in the dough for whoever gets there first, revenue sharing will be based on customer downloads."

Hmm, what happened to Riot-E? I've written about them before here, they were a well-funded Finnish company (motto: "we don't make games. we create riots") who spent a lot of money buying up the rights for Marvel characters, Bridget Jones, and even (I think) Lord of The Rings... then failed to do much of value with them and went under. Someone was doing a film about them, I think - we met them in 2000 and had a brief chat, but all they were interested in doing back then was SMS games (which, you may have noticed, aren't all that much fun).

So - big licenses don't guarantee success.

A worrying tendency emerges, as Christmas looms in the office... and it's not the first time.

Tool use confirmed in monkeys: read the excellent "Next of Kin for a theory on how tool use led to the evolution of language in primates.