I am a regular reader of TechDirt, absolutely love the site. Admittedly, part of this stems from the fact that they hold similar views on a few important topics, such as copy right and business models for the movie and music industries. I've found them an interesting resource because they manage to put into words concepts that I've found difficulty ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone has some spare cash and want to help out: Bletchley Park is trying to raise money to purchase some Alan Turing papers that are going up for auction through Christies later this month. Here's the donation site, and here are the auction details.

I originally posted this on KubuntuForums.net, but I felt that I put enough long winded effort and I have little enough overlap between there and here that I would repost this here in hopes of opening dialog with some of you who read my journal.

The last few days, I've been watching things pop up on the various syndication feeds and news sites I ( Read more... )

Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors, and this quote from him, which I read in an article in the NY Times (A Literary Ledgent Fights for a Local Library), has just endeared him to me that much more:

“Libraries raised me, I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I ( Read more... )

So, deepestsender updated so it'll work with the Firefox 3 rc1 and I am most happy. The *buntu people, they hadn't seen fit to release the release candidate to the repositories yet, but someone else in the community for the extension pointed me towards somewhere that I could get my grubby little hands on it in such a way that I could install from Adept Manager ( Read more... )

I just read this post on techdirt (techdirt.com), Faking Death to Get out of Mobile Phone Contracts, and while I keep expecting to hit saturation point on the stupidity of people, I keep being amazed by the things I read about.

One thing I could never understand, especially since I used to sell cell phones, is why people would willing submit themselves to ( Read more... )

As much as I hate the pink, I think it would be awesome to have a Hello Kitty laptop. While I think it would be better to get one of the less marketed non-pink themed versions of Hello Kitty, I think the dork factor of having a Hello Kitty laptop would just be too awesome to pass up.

That said, I'd probably be better off modifying a "normal" ( Read more... )

House Panel: Why Did Google 'Airbrush History'?

This article seems to be making a bigger deal over this than they should, and it scares me how the government feels the need to step in on the matter. However, I do think the more current images should be in use, and it confuses me that the government wants the current pictures up as they want it to ( Read more... )

I love the Creatures in my Head because of creatures like this one. So cute in a twisted creatury sort of way. I love it.

Also, the horrible paper and junk covered table? Now all that is on it is the microwave that I am unsure where to stash, and a stack of RPG books and related items. I do have four bags of crap that I have to sort out by garbage ( Read more... )

I'm probably going to make an entry about my weekend at some point here, but for now, I've got a couple of silly things to post about. First of all, I think this is awesome: personalblimp.com. It's a blimp that's filled with hot air like a balloon, instead of helium or such like a more traditional blimp. The awesome factor? The use of hot air makes ( Read more... )