IMS/ISC Takes their Case to the BOGSAAT
IMS/ISC: Comments on .org Preliminary Evaluation Report.The analysis was an impressive display of committee logistics and resulted in three different…
Am I Insane or Not?
Rael was looking at me funny for not being able to ping his entry, but of course it turned out…
Spring has Sprung!
User Creations: Spring. Available now for OS X. Has problems on Jaguar. If you’re lucky, you should be able to…
This is TrackBack. Blosxom, do you copy?
Rael has implemented TrackBack in Blosxom. It’s pretty cool to see TrackBack popping up everywhere. It’d be nice to have…
IMS Gets Mad, Even
The .org supplicants at the IMS aren’t taking none of this nonsense anymore. webchick has created this funny coloring contest…
Transform Your Mac with CandyBar
Panic, one of my favorite Mac developers, and the iconfactory have teamed up to create CandyBar, an OS X app…
Free Radio on Free Software
If you’re involved in the free software movement, you’ll probably enjoy this radio interview which humorously and interestingly covers all…
what the chinese government doesn’t want you to know
Odd, according to the Real-Time Chinese Filtering Testing System by Zittrain and Edelman, this website is blocked in China. I…
Patenting Piracy
Lucky Green: Utilizing Palladium against software piracy [wmf]. Lucky is one of the most outspoken detractors of Palladium. This is…
Shrub Wants to Stop Wildfires by Stopping Forests
Sorry for all the political announcements, but this one was too crazy to pass up. Heritage Forests Campaign has a…
Ask Ashcroft to Stop Library Invasion
Working Assets has an email campaign asking Ashcroft to stop asking libraries for private records and repealing the gag order…
Incredible Commentary on .Org Process
Eric Brunner-Williams: Comments on the Preliminary Evaluation Report. In summary: ISOC is at risk of bankruptcy. GNR is just a…
Copyright law exists to enlarge the public domain.
Over on Doc Searls’ DG, Timothy Philips makes a really profound statement: “Copyright law exists to enlarge the public domain….
Wil Wheaton vs. Barney Videos
Seth points to some great video clips of the Wil Wheaton vs. Barney fight. He also points out that the…
0wnz0red
Salon.com: “0wnz0red” by Cory Doctorow. “Programmers who hack their own bodies don’t need exercise and never get sick: A new…
Nuevo - Kronos Quartet
I’m not a music reviewer, but I won’t let that stop me from playing on on my weblog. I was…
Zooko and Seth in RSS
Since I’m spending more and more time in NetNewsWire, I decided to RSSify the few remaining sites I read. First…
“Vote for my Mom”
I love this funny animation from blackholebrain. (Thanks, Alwin!)…
The Third Qatsi
KOYAANISQATSI life out of balance POWAQQATSI life in transformation NAQOYQATSI life as war THERE IS NO MORE NATURE. THERE IS…
David P. Reed on Piracy
David P. Reed: More on vengeance rights and piracy. “Congress and the other two branches are on a tear, on…
Screen Savers on the Desktop
Pat Jensen has posted a cool trick for running your screen saver on your desktop. Just open a terminal, and…
Scientology threatened by “unadulterated cyber-terrorism”
Politechbot: Scientology says it’s threatened by “unadulterated cyber-terrorism”. “Unless certain rules are applied on the Internet, our desired global freedom…
Dear Bigshot
Internet lawns, why not what, Perl 5 regexps, Gilmore on .org, OmniIcon conspiracies, NetNewsWire, New York visit, Cory vs. Barney, Dear Congressman, OS X password limit, Apple wireless strategy, secrets of zeroconf.
Vote Hank Perritt
Hank Perritt is the democratic candidate in my district, running against incumbent Mark Kirk, a strong advocate of missile defense….
Software and Source Code
With a book, there are two important people involved: the writer and the reader. The writer has a concept which…
Fireworks of Failure
It’s 1:30AM. Hours ago, my server seemed to stop working. I could ping it, but I couldn’t do anything else….
IMS/ISC out of the ICANN Running
ICANN has proposed to give the dot-org bid to ISOC. Despite the IMS/ISC’s strong support from the community and endorsements…
Introducing… Warchalking! The New Swhack!
Faithful readers have probably been wondering where I’ve been for the past few days. (You haven’t? You’re not very faithful!)…
Electronic Pulsing Spam-Killing Superbrain
Paul Graham: A Plan for Spam. Paul proposes to use Bayesian probablity and client-side mail analysis to do content-filtering on…
Car Factories and Post Offices
We haven’t really gone on vacation this summer, but Dad’s been taking us on trips a lot. This week we…
FREE THE MOUSE
Bumperactive is giving away FREE THE MOUSE bumper stickers in honor of the Eldred v. Ashcroft case which is currently…
Dr. Suess is Fifth Highest Grossing Dead Celebrity
In response to my Dr. Seuss post, Matt Haughey sends a pointer to Forbes.com - Top-Earning Dead Celebrities which points…
James Valenti, 81 103 103 197 224 0
[The above number is the Xing DeCSS key, in decimal.] This week’s Crypto-Gram has a real zinger about the DigiVigilante…
book publisher is chinese household
Dave Winer, 2002-08-15: A note of appreciation. ‘A few days after returning from the hospital, a delivery man brought a…
The Search for Sight
Wired Magazine: Vision Quest. The riveting story of a blind man and the scientists who’ve used cameras, computers and neural…
Full Tilt for Software Freedom
Full Tilt for Software Freedom is Affero’s FSF Benefit Party tonight(!) in San Francisco. Lessig, Kuhn, Pinball, Paints, signed certificates…
Yee-Haw! Roundup time!
I’ve been trying to get the Bizar implementation of Ka-Ping Yee’s Roundup: an Issue-Tracking System for Knowledge Workers to work…
rfc822 has no chance to survive. take your mime.
I put together Aaron’s Internet Mail 2000 Proposal earlier today for the im2000 list. It was sort of fun. Someone…
Make Mozilla Money Fast!
David Hyatt: How to Monetize(tm) your browser.The first monetizing technique I’ll show you is called “Stealth Infection.” Under the principle…
US Locks Up US Citizens With No Process!
I just saw a Nightline episode on enemy combatants. The US is claiming that US citizens on US soil like…
Other Amici Claims
Reading some more opposing Eldred v. Ashcroft briefs…The MPAA claims that they wouldn’t be able to make new movies without…
Dr. Suess Enterprises In Favor of Perpetual Copyright
Is it just me or do you too find the opposing brief by Seuss cuckoo? This company inheretied from Suess…
Apple Gives In To Copyright Terrorism?
I was extremely proud of Apple not bowing to the copyright terrorists and letting users have full use of their…
Tokelau Gives Free Domains
Tokelau, a small island in the Pacific is inhabited by less than 1500 people. They’ve always divided their share of…
Free Culture, Free Slides
Leonard Lin’s put together an awesome flash version of Larry Lessig’s talk. It’s got the slides with the audio of…
New “Rogue State” Must Be Stopped
Adrian Hamilton: Yes, we need a ‘regime change’ in this rogue state….The government which is spending by far the most…
Congresmen Want You in Prison
Apparently they got the message about us not liking their vigilante justice schemes, so they’re trying a different tack. A…
Water Damage
I am writing this, rather surprisingly, form my TiBook. yesterday I accidentally spilled a glass of water on its right…
Rube Golderberg DRM
Check out John Zulauf’s hilarious Rube Goldberg-style DRM system. [Seth] “attach book (B) to door (D) of cage (C) containing…
Hall of Fame: Crucial
I’m returning some memory from Crucial.com and I’m reminded of just how much a joy their website is to use….
Insane Copyright Terrorism Hits Internet Radio
Thousands of Internet radio stations are dead, due to a deal not only designed to specifically crush smaller webcasters but…
today’s featured superhero: Edsger Dijkstra
Raph has a beautiful rememberance of Dijkstra.Dijkstra was an intellectual father to me. Twenty or so years ago, my father…
MP3 Political Party
The MP3 Party is trying to become a registered UK political party. [declan] Their manifesto sounds pretty crazy (in a…
I’m Baaaaaack!
A .nym TLD would be cool. I’d give people <fingerprint>.pgp.nym if they could prove that they owned the key with…
Geek Tees
I love this cool Geek Tee from Halibut. [Cory] It’d make a cool HTP T-Shirt if Wes programmed Perl….
we put the “FUN” in phonetic!
Overheard at the water park… One kid to another: “Let’s make believe we’re having fun.”…
Font Editor in Jaguar?
It looks like Jaguar has a Font Editor according to this screenshot from MacMegasite. Pretty cool! I’d love to play…
Blogging with the Big Boys
BurningBird talks about weblog consortiums (is it just me, or is that site white on white?): “On my own system,…
Where’s Shakespeare?
“What is BookCrossing, you ask? […] the books our members leave in the wild are free… but it’s the act…
Government Responds in Eldred v. Ashcroft
The government has filed their response brief (PDF) in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case. What they’re responding to is Lessig…
Reading in your Aggregator
Mark Pilgrim struggles with RSS feeds and aggregators: ‘I don’t use my aggregator to read things; I use it to…
Ethics By Analogy
For some reason I really learn a lot about things by analogy. I’m not sure if this is because my…
Standards and the Law
Is the W3C illegal? While reading some relatively unrelated things I found a message where djb discussed US requirements for…
MonkeyFist Week in Review
Kendall Clark, Monkeyfist.com: WEEKLY REVIEW: Military police, Afghan civillian casualties, Milosevic denials, UN torture treaty, Cheney corporate scandal, deporting relatives…
Janis Ian on Free Downloads
Janis Ian’s article on the “Internet Debacle” is great. Here’s some straight hard facts to counter the nonsense coming from…
A Contrarian View of Open Source
Bruce Sterling: A Contrarian View of Open Source. Given at OSCON. “Now, I get it about being the bazaar. I’m…
miller reminds you to think when you link
The Toaster Tinkers or What’s Wrong With Proprietary Software is an article I wrote about the analogy between software hackers…
you can’t handle the x-height!
Best of luck to the plaintiffs and everyone who has helped them. The oral argument is October 9th. Keep…
today’s featured superhero: D. J. Bernstein
D. J. Bernstein quickly won my heart with his sparse writing style (“You can send me email at […]; I…
rabbit, rabbit
Rael Dornfest: Rael’s Gold Box. A hilarious poem about the aura, the temptation, the hard sell marketing that is the…
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