when the blogging gets weird, the weird turn pro

[topaz]

You know a blog is in trouble when the commenters are more coherent and rational than the blogger:

[On why the publication of the HD-DVD key became such a big deal:] The second part of the answer, and the one most often missed by non-techies, is the fact that the content in question is an integer — an ordinary number, in other words. ... Giving a private party ownership of a number seems deeply wrong to people versed in mathematics and computer science. Ed Felten, "Why the 09ers Are So Upset" at freedom-to-tinker.com

I contemplated asking Ed if he felt the same way about the number that makes up his personal PGP key, or his Social Security Number, or his driver's license number, etc. -- until I saw that hundreds of other people had already made that point more articulately than I could.