October 2008
britt started watching archaeopteryx →
archaeopteryx is at gilesbowkett/archaeopteryx
Just learned about the git stash command http://tinyurl.com/yslrho cool!
No Money Down →
from the upcoming Arthur Magazine No. 31, Oct 2008
I poked my head up from writing my book a couple of months ago to engage with Arthur readers about the subject I was working on: the…
“If you need a lot of code written, you ought to be able to get your programming...”
– true true
“L” is not a code smell
September 2008
Phase space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Senate Wants To Send US Copyright Cops To Foreign... →
With the ProIP bill moving forward and trade representatives hard at work on an ACTA treaty to force customs agents to search for copyright violations at the border, Against Monopoly points out…
THC-ePassports →
how to hack and clone ePassports
The Pirate Bay Threatens To Sue Over Copyright... →
The folks who run The Pirate Bay sure do seem to have quite a bit of fun. The latest is that, in response to a report from Swedish book publishers about how they scraped TPB’s results for a period of…
House Follows Senate In Giving The President A... →
While failing to do much of anything (other than fingerpointing) to deal with the economic crisis we’re facing, the folks in the House did spend some time easily passing the ProIP bill that the…
Olympic Games: Just say NO →
In Canada, as Cory Doctorow observes, the International Olympic Committee “has trademarked a line from the Canadian national anthem, “with glowing hearts,” and is threatening to sue anyone who…
Twist - Collaborative Functional Testing Platform... →
“Hours before the Phillies-Atlanta Braves’ game on Wednesday night, a film...”
– Hot dogs outside Philly ballpark cause bomb scare - NYTimes.com
“he Olympics cloak themselves in the rhetoric of international cooperation and...”
– Charlie’s Diary: Olympic Games: Just say NO
Google Tries To Patent Least Cost Routing? →
First off, we should point out that there’s a tendency in the press to discover a patent app (or even a granted patent) from a company and immediately write up an article claiming that the company is…
Portland newspaper draws protestors over DVD... →
About 70 protesters gathered outside The Oregonian Monday morning to reprimand the newspaper for distributing an hourlong DVD, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” as paid advertising…
snaptrip - all your trips →
View your flickr picks from past trips on Dopplr…cool
Looks Like Someone Learned From The... →
We’ve talked about how both Hasbro and Mattel seriously screwed up in dealing with Scrabulous, the online version of Scrabble written by two brothers in India and placed in Facebook where it…
Reason #9,358 For Not Buying DRM'd Music: Wal-Mart... →
Following the misguided lead of both Microsoft and Yahoo, it appears that Wal-Mart has decided to turn off its DRM servers, basically screwing over anyone who trusted Wal-Mart to make sure that…
http://garyhodgson.com/ubiquity/rtm-v2.html →
A ubiquity command for Remember The Milk
Oh Somalia, you're so zany. →
Pirates. With tanks.
On Thursday, pirates seized the Ukrainian ship Faina en route to Kenya with 33 Russian-built T-72 tanks and a substantial quantity of ammunition and spare parts. Russia’s…
Lessig’s ‘Free Culture’ Now Available with DRM →
There is a continuing battle surrounding Digital Rights Management (DRM). While most rights holders see it as a way of maximizing their profits, users see it as a way to reduce their ability to…
The Daily Taser: Minor shocked by cops while... →
Canada’com’s Katie Mercer reports that Vancouver police twice tased a 16-year-old girl as she held her newborn baby. The police claim they had no choice, as the girl might have “smothered”…
Legal Bullying Continues for Icelandic BitTorrent... →
It has been almost a year since a coalition of anti-piracy organizations forced Torrent.is, the largest BitTorrent site in Iceland, to go offline. In the months that followed, the BitTorrent site…
Twitter / legislate →
track votes in congress via twitter
Listen to Yourself →
funniest pie chart ever →
[link: ffffound.com & logicnest.com & adarena.net|thnkx Martin]
Jack Thompson Disbarred; Claims Florida Lawyers... →
It’s been quite a while since we last wrote about Jack Thompson, the rather infamous lawyer who blames all sorts of violent crimes on video games and has repeatedly sued video game makers in an…
Robot political phone calls illegal in U.K. →
Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Officer ruled today that automated phone calls, featuring a recorded message from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, broke privacy rules. From the BBC:
The…
Capitol v. Thomas: Judge Orders New Trial,... →
Joining the ranks of federal district judges in Arizona and Massachusetts, District of Minnesota Chief Judge Michael Davis today concluded [44-page PDF] that simply making a music file…
Please discipline codegirl and make her code very... →
I have needs at work like all of us girls do. For me, I don’t want to be a girl dropped into the coding pit to be awed and then broken by Senior PHP engineers wielding grim and terrible caching weapons. Rails engineers by the thousands marching, marching against everyone, on every border while I draw well water shot through with ponderings of the scalability issues with PHP, and how for form...
European Parliament Says No to Three-Strikes Law →
The European Parliament has voted in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-stikes laws. Disconnecting alleged file-sharers based on evidence from anti-piracy…
Man falls to death after being tased by Brooklyn... →
Inman Morales, approached by police after yelling at passers-by, started swinging a fluorescent light tube at officers. He fell 10 feet to his death after being Tased. It’s the odd…
Draganflyer X6: Your own personal spy drone →
UAVs aren’t just for soldiers and horny lab assistants anymore: the Draganflyer X6 will put a remote-controlled, auto-stablizing flying camera platform into your hands for just $15k. A mount…
MBAs Being Taught To Fight Open Source By Offering... →
The Slashdot crowd is reasonably up in arms of a paper jointly written by a Harvard Business School professor and a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor on ways to compete with open…
Apple's Response To App Rejection Backlash? Ban... →
As the backlash against Apple’s arbitrary banning of apps it doesn’t like (or which it feels competes) from the iPhone App Store continues, it appears that rather than come clean, Apple is going…
Judge Declares Mistrial In RIAA's Only Court... →
The RIAA’s only court victory in its years-long legal battle against individuals who engage in unauthorized file sharing has been declared a mistrial, and the $222,000 fine against Jammie Thomas…
What Does The Internet Have To Do With The Finnish... →
The story of the Finnish school shooting that left 11 people (including the shooter) dead is certainly a tragedy, and you can understand why people immediately respond to such things by looking for…
DoJ Agrees: IP Enforcement Bill is a Bad Idea →
Yesterday, the Department of Justice delivered a letter to Senators Specter and Leahy, blasting S.3325, the “Enforcement of Intellectual Property Right Act of 2008.” In the letter, the DoJ…