I’ve just got an account on Dreamwidth:
http://avram.dreamwidth.org/

I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it, but I wanted to grab my name.

Zvi has been doing a good job of preaching the Dreamwidth gospel:

• What it is and why it’s better than LJ
• Some info about OpenID
• Introductory guide to Dreamwidth
• How to follow someone who has moved to ( Read more... )

Arg, no thanks to John Gruber, I spent some time this afternoon perusing Eric Raymond’s blog. No, he hasn’t gotten any better.

I was amused to see a few election-related posts - all dating from that brief period around the end of August and early September when McCain’s numbers looked good - gloating about how Obama’s campaign is doomed, doomed. ( Read more... )

Microsoft has been giving bloggers free laptops, no strings attached, loaded with Vista, the new version of Windows, hoping for some good buzz. Via whumpdotcom, I see that Joel Spolsky isn’t happy:

This is the most frustrating thing about the practice of giving bloggers free stuff: it pisses in the well, reducing the credibility of all blogs.

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Y’know what’s distracting? A dream about a sequel to Sky Captain featuring a love scene between Angelina Jolie and Aishwarya Rai, that’s damn distracting, pretty hard to wake up from ( Read more... )

George Orwell gets a bad rap.

Because of 1984, his name has become associated with Newspeak, the language of bureaucratic tyranny and reality-avoidance. The word "Orwellian" conjures up all of the dark features of IngSoc and the Party from 1984, Orwell’s name (actually a pen name, he was born Eric Blair) fusing with the evil he warned us of like ( Read more... )

Patrick Nielsen Hayden, 28 July 2004:
I'm increasingly convinced that the success of modern American capitalism at providing us all with niche products perfectly suited to our individual quirky selves has led us to feel, vaguely but strongly, that something's the matter when the political candidates on offer don't include options as aptly ( Read more... )

Another useful (or at least cool) thing I’ve found through 43 Folders is del.icio.us, a social bookmark aggregator. I haven’t done much with it yet, but we’ll see ( Read more... )

Parisian underground cinema. Seriously underground:
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement ( Read more... )

Reason #865 why Jim Henley is one of my favorite bloggers:
AFP reports that a column of Sunni and Shia Iraqis bulled through a Fallujah checkpoint to bring relief supplies to the embattled town. It's like the classic Silver Surfer comics from the 1960s, when the Surfer, appalled by humanity's fractiousness, launched demonstration attacks in hopes ( Read more... )