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The weekend’s almost here, folks, and today I’m introducing a new feature: Awesome of the Day. Today’s is brought to you by jellyfish lamps.

• Here’s a big fat fuck you to the software industry, as well as the RIAA and MPAA, for muddying the ‘first sale’ waters.
• AT&T, those dirty devils, have banned Sling and all video-related P2P for mobiles.
• If you really want a Tauntaun sleeping bag, you need to go help ThinkGeek prod Lucasfilm.
• Mobile carriers are attempting to block Skype from smartphones. This can only be because VoIP is crushing their business models.
• The Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 2007 ruling that ‘marriage’ is not solely the realm of ‘one man, one woman’ in a unanimous decision.
• There is an ocular implant designed to improve vision for sufferers of macular degeneration.
• Finally, Google has figured out how to allow blind users to dial on touchscreen phones. And the solution is blindingly obvious.
• Gabble, an XMPP service for the Telepathy framework now has file transfer support.
• Researchers at MIT have developed a virus-backed electrode generation technique using carbon nanotubes.

One thing I missed yesterday was the announcement that FileFront is not dead.