NotCon '04 - an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.
There are multiple other links from these two pages to interesting bits and pieces. Among the speakers was Brewster Kahle. I'll have to dig in some more and will update here as I find more good stuff. -- ghb
Cory Doctorow's notes taken from Danny O'Brien's NotCon Recap of Life Hacks, June 6, 2004, Imperial College, London, UK.
I was the world's most disorganized person, and I resolved to adapt the habits of the world's most organized and prolific geeks and become a Charles Atlas of organization -- O'Brien
Strong thread in this piece about the power of simple text editors and regular expression searches.