Episode 291 of Escape Pod is Mur reading Shannon’s Law, by Cory Doctorow, a chapter from the Bordertown anthology. I love the idea of actually building a TCP/IP network using carrier pidgeon, ogre’s laundry lines and the dust on the wings of a butterfly.
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Assuming you’ve seen the RFC1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
That RFC is a charming antecedant.