The Copyright Tax
Winterspeak: The Copyright Tax Who does extending copyright hurt? All of us, to the tune of $3B a year, just…
CodeCon Wrapup
CodeCon 2002 (blog entry) is now over. After three days of presentations from friends and fellow hackers, I now know…
CSS: Client-side rendering rules
There have been a lot of questions about CSS and its uses in the last few weeks, so I thought…
Students, Teachers and Dragons
Roger Schank: Stories, Curricula, Master’s Degrees and Dragon Slaying. Schank proposes a Story-Centered Curriculum (SCC) where students learn by actually…
EarthWeb by Marc Stiegler
Marc Stiegler’s Earthweb (price check, Amazon) is an answer to his last final exam question in the form of a…
CodeCon!
The long-awaited CodeCon (Advogato, The Register) starts today at jwz’s DNA Lounge. CodeCon, started and run in large part by…
My Flamboyant Grandson
The New Yorker: My Flamboyant Grandson. An excellent science-fiction story about our consumerist future, and one young boy who just…
The Decline and Fall of ArsDigita
Guan: ArsDigita VCs v. Co-founders (/.) Philip: ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up (/.) Eve: Diary of a Start-Up (/.) Mass…
Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow (price check, Amazon) (the author wanted it to be called Urchin) was a wonderful book to read. I’d…
My First Drive
Today I went to the liberty Secretary of State’s office and got my driving permit. I am now allowed to…
Fancy Stats-Man
I’ve just added Aaron Swartz: The Stats, thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s awesome sitestats.py software. It was easy to install, only…
My First Usenet Post
I just found my first-ever post to USENET. I was eight years old, not yet old enough to have grown…
Moving to Movable Type
Well, on some good recommendations I’ve decided to try Movable Type. I’m really loving it so far, especially the stunning…
Arrgh, pirates.
I’ve often complained to folks about their use of the term “pirate” to mean “share”. When folks complain about pirated…
FBI: Illegal DVDs Fund Terrorism
Sickening: Two shops in Vancouver were raided last week for selling counterfeit DVDs. Along with the standard “billions and billlions…
Plucky Headline Viewer for Mac
Plucky Headline Viewer for Mac. A very nice GUI aggregator, which supports RSS and Perl regexps. They even link to…
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
“They say we can’t visualize total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting!” - Kent Lansing in The FountainheadI spent…
Weird: Radio Free Linux. They’re
Weird: Radio Free Linux. They’re playing the text-to-speech of the Linux kernel source code on the radio. I’m not sure…
Wow! Google adopted Kottke’s suggestions
Wow! Google adopted Kottke’s suggestions to their news page (old look) and left him a nice thank you note at…
Anarchists: Keepers of the Flame
Anarchists: Keepers of the Flame [via Jorn]”But most striking, if you listened in, would have been the gently earnest tone…
Science Friday: Everyday Design
Donald Norman, Michael Graves and Henry Petroski are on today’s Science Friday: Everyday Design (listen).…
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