BTW, people may have noticed that I’m using a lot more flickr pictures of late; the reason is that I found (and modified to my taste) Patrick Mueller’s ‘get flickr with attribution (gfwa)‘ greasemonkey script, and it makes posting cc-licensed flickr pictures easy.
Firefox Cookies by Amit Agarwal. License:
GFWA is one of the many little [...]
Now I am 30! by Dan Morelle. License:
Trying not to be too reflective today. Ungodly drilling noise in apartment below mine is helping with that. :) Thanks to everyone who made the last 30 years so interesting and fun; hope for more of the same in the next 30.
First off, I Am Not A Lawyer And This Is Not Legal Advice. If you go to Microsoft (or to anyone) and say ‘but this law student on a blog told me so’ then you will be laughed out of the room, or sued, or both, and you’ll deserve it. :)
Mike Shaver blogged early [...]
My friend seth is doing something very cool and playing with CC’s new autocurate tools, in pairing with GNOME, to see if he can autoupdate the background.
His critical questions that I’m passing on to p.g.o (he’s only on planet fedora):
is it possible to have the gnome-background-changer run a program to determine the image it [...]
So Lessig isn’t saying no to Congress quite yet. This really should excite me; to call Lessig one of my heroes is not a stretch at all.
Lawrence Lessig 1 by Mario Carvajal. License:
My initial response was, I think, pretty solid: Lessig would make a very good Congressman. He’s proven in his Creative Commons work [...]
We could communicate
by Bill Stilwell. License:
bad news (in my mind): lots of focus on ‘email’ rather than ‘communication’ in the recent discussion of the renaming/rebirth of Mozilla MailCo as Mozilla Messaging, and even some comments that could be read as negative on the idea of integrating various communications technologies into a competent whole.
great news: [...]
We’ll miss you, Aunt Sara. I’d say ‘Rest in Peace’, but I hope you’re dancing or driving fast, not resting…
Two document-centric sites came across my radar last week; some quick thoughts on each:
docstoc.com: sharing-focused document site- you upload, they publish to the world so that anyone can read it. Founded by law school students, so, among other things, has lots and lots of law school outlines, which is a nice resource. Has some very [...]
After I casually mentioned my support of the writer’s strike, a good friend told me that he thought that the strike was bad, in part because the writers should be getting a share of the profits and not of revenue (and since there were no profits in internet video yet, they should be getting nothing [...]
Wowza. As I just submitted to /.:
With the unfortunate passing of Congressman Tom Lantos parts of Silicon Valley and San Francisco will be having a special election in June to send a replacement to Congress. Given the area, it would be great to have someone who is both tech and policy-aware fill the seat- and [...]
