February 2009
Bonne soirée à partir de Paris. Je vais à crêpes sont délicieuses et le cidre breton.
Up far too early thanks to an overnight flight. Also, London is a damned labyrinth.
Flight is only about 1/2 full. Excellent.
Waiting for my flight to London
Apparatus for allowing your cat to agree to EULAs →
Anne Loucks has designed an ingenious apparatus that allows her cat to click “I agree” on the obnoxious EULAs that get thrown up on her computer screen. She reasons that since her cat can’t form a…
Scholarly paper on the ineffectiveness of using... →
Andrew A. Adams (University of Reading) and Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute) have just released a new paper on the risks that we face now that the entertainment industry wants to augment DRM…
Scientology TV show blames psychiatry for turning... →
In this clip from a Scientologist TV show, the host and his guests explain that psychiatry led to both the Holocaust and Osama bin Laden’s masterminding of the 9/11 attacks. Y’see, bin Laden was…
Massachusetts Gov. wants to track cars on state... →
SamSam says: “Gov. Deval Patrick wants to charge drivers by how much they drive on state roads, and at what times. How is he planning on doing this? By adding GPS units to cars, giving at least…
“Mediocre people aren’t mediocre because getting better is a mystery....”
– Indeed sir
Giles Bowkett: Obie: NO
"The roots of California’s inability to address... →
“The roots of California’s inability to address its budget woes are statutory and political. The state, unlike most others, requires a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature to pass budgets and…
britt forked pivotal/screw-unit-server →
Forked repository is at britt/screw-unit-server
The Samurai of Sampsonia Way →
[from armchair_anarchist] Brain thinks 'your pain,... →
“New research from Japan shows that the human brain treats feelings of envy like physical pain, while schadenfreude — the pleasure derived from another person’s misfortune — triggers the brain’s…
Can You Re-Copyright Photos In The Public Domain? →
Davis Freeberg wrote in to tell us about how a small publishing company, Summertown Sun, had issued takedown notices for public domain photographs that were put on Flickr. What appears to have…
“Intellectual property. More specifically, the fiat declaration that properties...”
– An excellent explanation of the realities of intellectual property.
Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
The psychedelic party of Israeli politics →
The article was originally published in the Reality Sandwich web magazine.
What is the Geula Party? Is it a political statement? Art? A spiritual manifesto? The Geula party seeks to be all…
Author's Guild claims text-to-speech software... →
Kindle 2’s flagship feature is the reading of text out loud, in the same way as software that’s already built into desktop computers and Prof. Stephen Hawking’s famous voice box. This has caused a…
My first Scotch in a month, like getting hit in the head with a fiery golden sledgehammer (also known to cause Douglas Adams references).
"We got this huge whiteboard at work but it’s... →
“We got this huge whiteboard at work but it’s caused a productivity crash. No one can pass it w/o giving a presentation on social networking” - John Dickerson
Frying new potatoes and rosemary in duck fat - Photo: http://bkite.com/04sMj
Unfh…brain, you are full of fail today
Control-a-Cat Remote Control
I had developed a... →
Control-a-Cat Remote Control
I had developed a prototype of this for the Danger Hiptop years ago — no joke. I’m happy to see someone took one to market.
[via Ed in IM]
LOL graffiti - Photo: http://bkite.com/04mv3
The face recognition stuff in iPhoto 09 is awesome.