Amazon emailed me to recommend “Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments.” It looks like a deep, serious study of options for moving beyond a desktop metaphor. Obviously I haven’t read it, nor do I plan to (Property Law calls) but it looks like it should be interesting to anyone who wants to [...]
More thoughts on gpl v3 later, but a quick thought from skimming through some of the online comments:
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. — the second sentence of the license, emphasis mine
I don’t understand the word “most” on the [...]
Past tense:
first day of spring.
performed well in class when called on.
discovered yummy indian-ish food place.
discovered I can get school credit for work I’m already doing.
discovered I can avoid additional work, while still (hopefully) obtaining access to something I really want.
walked two miles down the river in shorts and sandals; took two miles worth of pictures.
people [...]
A month or so ago I happened to stumble across a mention of Derek Powazek, whose work in the late 90s at fray was the first time I had been exposed to the idea that the web could be not just interesting but beautiful- achingly, sometimes heartbreakingly beautiful. I googled a bit to see what [...]
Stumbled on this essay defending the use of Wikipedia in academia today, and was pleased and excited to see that it was written by a Duke prof, Cathy Davidson (blog). I knew Duke was doing the right thing in starting a center for interdisciplinary studies, and I’m excited to see that Prof. Davidson (current head [...]
I don’t usually consider myself jealous of extreme wealth, but outside my window tonight is one of those times. Apparently Elton John is throwing his 60th birthday party at St. John the Divine, the cathedral across the street from my apartment. The paparazzi are out in force; I can hear the screaming fans when particularly [...]
If you enjoy musicals, and are planning on going to law school, do yourself a favor and don’t watch Chicago the same week you cover murder, wife-beating, and murder defenses in Criminal Law. Nothing like correcting lyrics in your head to spoil your enjoyment of a good musical.
For example, “It was a murder But not [...]
Dave’s not metal, he’s just a “gifted social outsider.“
Turns out Sudoku (new in GNOME 2.18!) is the output of a Japanese game company called Nikoli. Nikoli gives much of the credit for their creativity and prodigious output to their community of puzzle solver-readers, who suggest new games and refinements to old games to Nikoli. As icing on the community production cake, they plans [...]
It is good to see that the GNOME Foundation has officially announced that we’re retaining the Software Freedom Law Center to help us with the Foundation’s legal issues. I’ve been tangentially involved, since it is trivially easy for me to swing by the SFLC offices, and I’m excited that we’ve got more smart, clueful people [...]
