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Has anyone tested this? Is this backwards compatible with existing bittorrent clients?

I maintain a tracker and seeds for my Air America Radio archive. I'd like to offer more seeds (like a whole week's worth of shows), but I don't want to open hundreds of ports in my firewalls. I also don't want to be so on the bleeding edge that no one can download the files - and of course I'm too lazy to test it myself....

There seem to be no other processes that it spawns other than related to the actual playing of audio and/or video. Any attempt to hide spyware in a Linux app would be quite transparent.

You can't tell that by looking, in fact you can't tell what the single process it runs does. You certainly can't tell if it is sending data about your computer use somewhere without doing analysis of data on the wire (so to speak)--looking at recent connections isn't even enough because it could be sending data to the same place you're getting streaming audio/video from. By the time you've done that, it's too late to stop the potentially sensitive data from leaving your computer. You can't legally improve the program to make it not happen again (preparation of a derivative work is regulated under copyright law, restricted by default, and not allowed in the RealPlayer license). If you figure out which bits to flip to improve the program, you can't legally distribute the improved version to help everyone else out (same copyright issue).

I can listen to AirAmerica without firing up the Windows machine and RealAlternative.

I'd be surprised if "RealAlternative" is anything but the proprietary RealPlayer software with a different GUI front-end. http://bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/ points to a live streaming mirror of Air America in Ogg Vorbis format, complete with Ogg Vorbis archives of previous Air America shows (thus making this page better than the official Air America website). It is quite busy and apparently in need of more bandwidth. Perhaps they take donations.

All that and I still don't have an answer to the question I asked about regarding the one-time MP3 license fee.

Earthquakes can be fun (i.e, interesting natural events like snow) if we engineer our lives properly.

Of course, I was dumb/ill informed and was almost crushed by my filing cabinet a few years ago in an earthquake (note the crushed chair that I was sitting in just before diving under my desk).

Thankfully they do drill us from an early age in the northwest to hide under our desks (where I immediately went) at the first shake. Drills work, even though they seem dorky at the time. They just need to tell us more about not having tall heavy unsecured object nearby....

I'm actually hoping to get a few more RSS/Bittorrent subscribers, because a few more (in the long term) would actaully save me even more bandwidth.

As it is, I serve up hundreds of bittorrents a day. Unfortunately, because most of the downloads are not concurent, my bittorrent seeds (hence my bandwidth) are doing most of the work. I need more people that not only download the bittorrents, but then actually leave their downloadres open. Here is a better link:
bigelow-springs.net/airamerica/

If I can put together a useable, attractive home using "standard components" via a webiste (i.e., Dell) that look like a classic basic craftsman era home, I'm all for it. But given how ugly new homes are, I have doubt MIT will come up with anything that is worthwhile.

It may be possible, because their are design patterns/proportions that they understood in the past (and some understand now) when building a home. But the idea that you can just tack on a kitchen willy nilly has resulted in the mass of ugly, community-destroying garage-scapes we have today.

The City of Olympia, Washington did this in 1937 (maybe a Depression jobs program?). I got the photo of my house last week, which will help us restore our 1926 bungelow to its original condition.

Every city should do this every 20 years; it's great when you are trying to learn about the historyof your community.