PropQ (Evening Edition)

The Pirate Bay has been in Zombie Pirate™ mode for months now, but one of the last remnants of its halcyon days has been sent to sea on a burning boat: their tracker—the biggest in the world—is gone.

On The Pirate Bay's blog, the decision is pitched as a step forward, away from centralized trackers to newer, decentralized systems like DHT and PEX:

Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well.

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Come December, months after it should have happened, the White House will convene a jobs summit. That’s a good thing if we’re really going to talk about all options. Because important ones are missing right now. To that end, I’d like to suggest a few names for the summit’s guest list: Bob Borosage and other people at the Institute for America’s Future; Leo Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers; Carolyn Barthomew, chair of the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission; Bob Kuttner, founding co-editor of The American Prospect; and L. Randy Wray, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City,  and Research Director with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability. These five take the long view, the big picture view. And what they see – what anybody who really looks sees – is that America’s job situation needs a transformation before the race to the bottom becomes an irrevocable plunge.

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Nothing like many miles to visit friends, gain perspective and renew one's purpose.

And if lunch includes sharing nachos served in a hubcap with good friends at Geddy's in Bar Harbor, then all the better!

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