Stewart, Colbert to return. I support the writer’s strike (they should get the same royalties across all media) but a primary campaign without Stewart and Colbert is a national calamity.
So… I was having a discussion with a copyright classmate about the legitimate uses of bittorrent, explaining that (like any good protocol) torrent can be used to transfer both legal and illegal bits.
screenshot by dantekgeek, used under CC-SA
It struck me that many would probably be able to spare disk space for a pile of [...]
Jump for Joy, by bingbin, used under a CC-BY license
That is about how I’m feeling right at the moment. Last exam done. Not going to be my finest semester (job search was unexpectedly distracting, and frankly I got a bit cocky about copyright and patent, which I paid for come end of semester) but not [...]
A new blog, dedicated to fact-checking spurious claims in open source blogs. Reminds me a bit of my own adventures (1, 2) in open source journalism. :) I will be keeping an eye on this blog; hopefully it becomes something useful and which others check before promoting openly false posts by others.
NYPD @ Times Square, by Web Phenomenon Joi Ito, used under CC-BY
Had a drink with a friend after my patents exam today. There was a van with a loudspeaker outside.
The goal of the van and loudspeaker were to remind everyone that a murder had taken place there the weekend before, and that if they had [...]
so close: past exams from your patent prof have asked that you do analysis on a case which is pending before the courts, so you decide to search patent blogs for interesting cases which are before the courts. And lo and behold, one of the cases you saw on the patent blogs was on the [...]
(1) Thanks to everyone who voted for me for the board; I hope I’ll be able to accomplish what I’ve set out to do.
(2) fairly good summary of the html5/ogg situation, from Mozilla’s rep to the HTML5 video workshop. At the end, he says:
If you are passionate about the use of Ogg Theora and [...]
[I've studied an immense amount the past 38 hours; this is a brain break while watching the terrible but enjoyable Gladiator.]
Someone recently linked to my old post on firefox nitpicks; I’ve also been using firefox three this week. Time to revisit…
Fixed:
direct bookmarks from url bar: ffox’s new ‘awesomebar’ is really quite nice. Finally caught up [...]
[Today was the last day of classes- so after this I crawl into my exam hole for two weeks.]
The more mobile startups get, the harder it would be to start new silicon valleys. If startups are mobile, the best local talent will go to the real Silicon Valley…
–Paul Graham
I love New York, [...]
This Post In A Nutshell (aka, the Murray Version)
No one should be surprised that social network users can’t ‘vote with their feet,’ because most users give up a portion of their autonomy when they choose to use web services. This post will suggest that protecting autonomy is desirable and should be designed in to software, [...]
