Presented with out comment are the books I read in 2016, ordered with the most recently read first:

* All Tomorrow's Parties
* Idoru 
* Virtual Light
* Excession
* Cibola Burn
* Reamde
* Abandon's Gate
* Seveneves
* ELEKTROGRAD
* Ashes of Victory
* Little Brother
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 3
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 2
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 1
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 10
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 9
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 8
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 7
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 6
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 5
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 4
* The Cuckoos Egg
* Networks of New York
* Hydrogen Sonata
* Surface Detail
* Matter
* Look to Windward
* Inversions
* Use of Weapons
* The Player of Games   
* Consider Phlebaa
* The Man in the High Castle
* Overtime
* Eqoid
* Down on the Farm
* Neuromancer 
* The Soul of a New Machine
* The Wise Man's Fear
* Name of the Wind 
* Zero History 
* Spook Country 
* The Atrocity Archives
* The Fuller Memorandum
* The Jennifer Morgue 
* The Apocalypse Codex
* The Annihilation Score
* The Rhesus Chart
* The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
* Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
* Titus Groan
* Next Stop Execution
* Mona Lisa Overdrive
* Pattern Recognition
* Gormenghast
* Cunning Plans
* Tubes

Day 4 is the sad day, at a certain time this evening a switch will flip, everyone will stop what they are doing and start packing up. Right away the hackcenter will go from being another world back to a boring hall.

Reading: Fahrplan

Blinkenlights are really big in hacker culture, the hackcenter where our table is located is completely full of led strips, installations, projectors and a ton of other things that glow, flash or blink.

ATTENTION
This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment.
Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only!
So all the “lefthanders” stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies.
Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere!
Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights.

The obvious think to do with blinkenlights is to get them onto the network, my udp panel continues this glorious tradition. There are loads of awesome blinkenligths on the network:

The Milliways sign is made from addressable led strips mounted on a frame. There is an awesome ethernet connected controller board that drives all of the leds.

There is a group of hackers sat in front of the flipdot sign day and night playing with it. The flipdots are small electromechanical modules that can be either white or black, the modules take a fraction of a second to swith and make an awesome sound as they do.

The flipdot sign is controllable from a (probably tempory) website .

Congress is a great place to try out apps or networking things that require a lot of people involved. All over the building there are posters up with apps, network services, political action, calls for poets, puzzles, manifestos. Following up on these ideas could fill your time at congress.

One poster than caught my eye was a call to use a decentralised mesh networked micro blogging service. The post links to an app called Rumble that is available with Android and iOS. There are enough people willing to try things out at congress that a meshed messaging app could be great fun to use.

Unfortunately it seems the app can't handle the network conditions at congress. The meshing can work over wifi or via bluetooth. I suspect the mesh over the wifi uses something like mdns for neighbour discovery. We found when we tried the SlowTV that multicast is blocked on the wifi for performance reasons.

The bluetooth option for the app seems unable to find any neighbours in the hackcenter either. It might be that the rf conditions are making this nearly impossible.

I will keep trying to play with the app after the event, but it would have been awesome if it had been usable at congress.

Hackaday are covering 33c3 , mostly talks so far, but there may also be articles about the all the amazing projects that fill up the CCH. There are so many awesome internet controlled projects around here that it is probably impossible to see all of them. The contents of the rooms in the hack center is changing all the time as well.

I think today I am going to see how many network blinkenlights projects I can find and make a little catalog. A metablinkenlights controller would be awesome to build out.

Reading: Fahrplan