Here's what I added to my lists today:

Inspiration
• The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
• The Verse-O-Matic (my poetry calculator)
• Sony's Librie, which I saw at Ken Brooks' office last year.
• Religious messages in unexpected spaces (see Alaska Airlines' inflight meals and In-and-Out Burger wrappings)

Research
• Investigate possibility of commandeering and using an "eInk"-enabled screen like that used on the Librie.
• Read "Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong (suggested by Doug Rushkoff)

Requirements
• Pick a representative urban block and catalogue written text visible from the street (build a taxonomy of urban text)

People
• None yet.

My goal is to read Ong's book over the weekend and hopefully write a response when the football gets boring on Sunday.

I had considered doing a "written" thesis but as I plow through some of the academic junk on the web written about the stuff that interests me I'm starting to realize that unless I actually do something this experience won't be nearly as rewarding.

Found Stuff

• Bernard Hibbitts' (U. of Pittsburgh) list of "Orality and Literacy" hotlinks.
• Interesting New York Times article on the resurgence of ebooks.