June 2007
Noobkit Docs, Ruby on Rails API documentation...... →
Rails API with the AJAX flavor →
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. →
YouTube - Authors@Google: Cory Doctorow →
Google Gears API Developer's Guide - Home →
The Appleseed Project →
Screencast-O-Matic →
New - Pastie →
YouTube - Signal →
HOWTO: Terminal as the desktop background. -... →
Linden Lab Follows Six Apart Down Censorship Path →
Over the past few days the Live Journal community was in an uproar over Six Apart’s move to delete what they considered objectionable material. I first read about it on Boing Boing (Link), then on Mashable (Link), and then on numerous sites. C¦Net carried the news (Link) and one look at the comments should provide […]
May 2007
Britt: @jaschu You should get the tattoo btw. Also, they broke cmd-O? Isn’t that Mac heresy?
Britt: I just bought mead over the internet. No, before you ask, I do not owna sword or go to “Ren-faires”.
Britt: Hah, Steve jobs reads Fake Steve. http://tinyurl.com/2nht3o
GAO: FBI Network Not Very Secure →
The Government Accountability Office continues to break through the political clutter with its reports on what’s really going on. The latest in a long series of reports notes that the FBI’s new Trilogy data network “place sensitive information transmitted on the network at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure or modification, and could result in a disruption of...
SF writers advise on homeland security →
David Pescovitz:
The Homeland Security Department has called up their special team of science fiction authors, a group called Sigma, to help them imagine various terror scenarios and ways to fight the “war” on terror. Sigma members Jerry Pournelle, Arlan Andrews, greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Sage Walker, all attended a Homeland Security conference in Washington this month about science...
Whose Burden Of Proof Is It When Accused Of... →
We’ve already seen how flimsy the evidence can be when people are accused of sharing unauthorized content online. It takes a lot more than just an IP address to show that the person was actually making unauthorized content available. However, that doesn’t preclude some legal bullying in the meantime. TorrentFreak has an article about a bunch of folks who were accused of unauthorized...
Britt: @fimoculous O hai. I haz a meme. No! De be overusin my meme!
MLB Still Claiming Sling Breaks The Law In Letting... →
A year ago, Major League Baseball, an organization that seems to actively try to turn off potential fans by illegally trying to claim ownership of factual information, started making noises that SlingMedia’s Slingbox was somehow illegal for letting people who had legally paid to watch baseball games on their home TV system watch that same content outside their home. Apparently, no one has...
There is a French metal band linking to my blog as... →
Google Gears Lets Developers Take Apps Offline →
Tommorrow, Google will be hosting a developer day for 5,000 developers worldwide. The bulk of developers will be gathering at the San Jose convention center for a keynote by Google’s VP of Engineering, Jeff Huber. At the conference Google will be outlinging their their developer strategy. But the big announcement will be Google Gears, an open source browser plugin that will enable developers to...
Conluvio →
A page of old Conluvio spice…
South Korea's 'Free Trade' Agreement Looks To... →
Remember the “free trade” agreement the US and South Korea were signing that, rather than promoting free trade, seemed to promote intellectual monopolies by extending draconian intellectual property laws to South Korea? Over at Against Monopoly they’re discussing some of the other clauses in the agreement that include a promise from South Korea that it will help shut down any...
Why Should Heirs Control How Content Is Used? →
Just a week after the NY Times ran a poorly thought-out opinion piece suggesting that copyright should be infinite, we find in the NY Times a pretty good example of some of the ridiculous situations caused by heirs owning the copyrights to works they had no hand in creating. That ownership subsequently gives the heirs artistic control over new productions and interpretations of the works, allowing...
Essay: Our Synthetic Futures - Newsweek:... →
home · LOLCODE →
If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only... →
Innovation Comes To Backyard Grills... After The... →
If you look through the history of economic innovation (at least over the last few hundred years), you notice a pattern: for all the talk about how patents are required for innovation, true innovation only seems to occur after key patents expire. The history of the steam engine is quite instructive on this, but it’s true of many other inventions as well. For Memorial Day this past weekend,...
Man in underwear wrestles leopard →
David Pescovitz:
Arthur Du Mosch, 49, of Kibbutz Sde Boker in southern Israel, wrestled a leopard that came in through the window of his home and jumped into his bed while he was sleeping. Apparently, the leopard was ill, making it easier for Du Mosch to restrain it for 20 minutes until park rangers arrived. From the Associated Press:
(Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority southern district...
Are eBay Auctions Rational? →
There’s been a trend in the last few years to suggest that a new group of economists are somehow “disproving” the traditional “neoclassical” basis for economics: that of “the rational person.” A recent article in The Nation is the latest in a long line of articles claiming that there’s a growing group of economists going against the grain. The...
Department of Homeland Security Not Focused on... →
I thought terrorism is why we have a DHS, but they’ve been preoccupied with other things:
Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said.
Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed.
“The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that’s just not true,”...
Britt: Back from a net-vacation and running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Venezuela: Chavez to shut down a second TV station →
Xeni Jardin:
Reuters reports that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez may shut down a second, smaller broadcaster, Globovision, for having allegedly organized an assassination attempt on the president:
Chavez took Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, off the air at midnight on Sunday and replaced it with a state-run channel to promote his socialist programs. The move sparked international condemnation...
Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel,... →
26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong →
Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your... →
Subterranean Press » Fiction: A Plain Tale from... →
121 - Europe: North/South-Divides →
This map shows some of the fractures dividing Europe’s North from its South. They are:
linguistic: one of the major language boundaries in Europa is the one between Germanic and Romance languages. Along that boundary, Germanic languages are spoken in the North, more specifically in the British Isles, in the Netherlands, Belgium (the northern half), Germany, in the very eastern part of...
Urban hacking →
Exposing the secret city: Urban exploration as ‘space hacking’ is an intriguing deck of slides by Martin Dodge. It’s about urban exploration of “secret spaces, abandoned buildings, and other obscure, overlooked, underused, forgotten, unsafe, and disconnected built structures“. Dodge, a geographer, investigated this phenomenon and some of the results are presented here, in this nice compendium of...
