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Depending on how precise it can measure where your 'mouse' is I could see the following happening:
1) You build this into a smart phone or tablet PC
2) Calibrate by selecting the 4 corners of your surface.
3) use the whole surface you selected as an extended touch screen.
This could be a bar top, a table at your local fast food, a whiteboard, your desk, tray in a plane, ....

It would allow the screen to be smaller yet the input to be bigger without the need to drag the keyboard with you. You could use a paper with a pre-printed design on it, like a keyboard or a map or whatever. Make it in silk and it is indestructable (well almost) and yet very small. http://duo.irational.org/food_for_free/material_maps/silk_map.html

Bit of shame, because the UK population votes for the government and then is compelled to pay a tax to the BBC so it can attack and deride that very same govt. Hey, it even uses large amounts of this tax to create (and subsequently re-create) digital channels that most of the UK population can't receive (thought that is changing thanks to rivals Sky and the ill-fated ITV Digital).

The BBC also uses it's massive income stream to start new channels and enterprises that effectively destroy legitimate competition (e.g. Artschannel channel), and uses it's multiple channels to cross-advertise other BBC channels (so not really advert-free).

News stories are not always well researched or written (c.f. the one about broadband barrage balloons reported on Slashdot - pure puff and ill-considered comments).

The sheer size and bias of 'auntie' (as it is 'affectionally' known) makes many other media organisations feel free to take rather obvious pot-shots at it (e.g. The Times newspaper has a story that the BBC was known as the Baghdad Broadcasting Corp by the British Navy and sailors switched to Sky News to avoid the overwhelmingly anti-UK bias on the BBC - of course this might have something to do with Murdoch owning both The Times and Sky News).

The BBC's 'unique way of funding' has crippled objective political reporting and media output in the UK; pro- and anti- govt propaganda bounces back and forth between so-called independent news organisations; as do irrelevant TV programmes (independent TV does a reality show, the BBC does a reality show and props it up through its many output formats and channels, etc.).

Did I hear someone say that the BBC's musical radio channels are the best in the UK? Of course they are! However, this might have something to do with the BBC having the almost all the national music channels in the UK. Effective competition again stifled by the fact that BBC radio does not have to make a profit because it is funded in it's own 'unique way', i.e. by enforced taxation; oh, and they shut down pirate stations using govt-biased legislation (I'd like to say that this legislation is BBC-biased but I'm not sure emergency crews would agree, then again it does get some geek-points for coolness.) Though even I would admit that BBC music radio is 'ok' sometimes, nothing will eras the memories of DLT and never-ending Fleetwood Mac from the p***-poor Radio 1 of old (and, alas poor controller, it isn't much better now).

They don't do anything new or innovative (except deliberately mess up the scheduling for top-class programming like Seinfeld, Larry Sanders, Star Trek: TNG etc. so no-one realises how bad BBC stuff really is, oh, and show pictures of dead soldiers). Not unless they are coming up to the regular review of the BBC tax by parliament; such a review is coming up, and those of us who loathe the BBC (but still have to pay it's tax but never watch any of their TV channels) can only hope an pray that the govt finally sees sense and makes them pay their own way in this world. Hey, it might happen!

Forgive the rant (but it's not as bad as

You could depart from this link page; particular recommendations: jodi.org, easylife.org, irational.org.

I looked into this last year, but dropped the idea once I put a cd player in my truck. You aren't going to be able to just start up a regular radio station, but the FCC did come up with some rules for low watt non-comercial radio broadcasting. The fees were fairly reasonable. Only somewhere in the neighboorhood of $90 per year, but you were limited to about 1w of power.FCC Just enough to go a mile or so. Equipment was pretty cheap. There are some all in one rigs that were only about $350. Just plug in your mp3 box and go. Check out this website.Pirate Radio They have some good info on equipment. The only thing that might hold you back would be the greedy music companies that want royalties everytime someone even thinks about one of their songs, much less plays them. A little legal advice or at bare minimum, legal mp3 copies (you actually own the cd's) of the music you're going to play is a must.

there are a lot of net.artists which works are hard to find in galleries, and who themselves (more or less) call net.artists and that dot makes the difference...

its work usually digs into political issues and specific issues of the media itself (net part of the net.art coin) rather then playing in the field of aesthetics and continuum of ugly and beautiful... media hacks are better thain paintings... just to start a little flamewar :)

links sometimes worths kilowords:
http://www.calarts.edu/~line/history.html
http://rtmark.com
http://www.irational.org
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk

and few others in tribute to net.art: interview with the hacker... work in progress...

At the end of my 1/2 hour trip I have not found the kit yet but, as usual, I found a boatload of other cewl stuff. Has anyone else found it yet????

At the end of my 1/2 hour trip I have not found the kit yet but, as usual, I found a boatload of other cewl stuff. Has anyone else found it yet????