Tue - June 24, 2008
31,000 Scientists Refute Global Warming
Or so says retired meteorologist John Coleman in
a bit of spam (as seen on
Snopes.com), forwarded to me by some dear friends. After a little
reading on this claim, I sent this reply...
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Thu - February 23, 2006
An Open Letter to the RIAA
I support the idea of legal music downloads, and
I agree that copyright holders deserve to be compensated for their work. All the
music I've downloaded has been through Apple's iTunes music store, and
everything on my iPod comes from either that or CDs I purchased in the
past...
Posted at 11:07 PM Read More
Fri - September 30, 2005
Serenity
The FOX television science fiction series
Firefly
was "hailed by critics as one of the most cancelled series of the year," joked
creator Joss Whedon. Shown out of order by FOX, Firefly was pulled after just 11
episodes. But the strength of the DVD sales, which
included an additional 3 episodes that never aired, helped Whedon get the
backing of Universal Studios for a feature film. That
film, Serenity,
arrives in theaters today...
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Thu - April 28, 2005
Beware of Dog
Too much time in front of the computer? Learning
too many new technologies in your spare time? I, too, had these problems, and
had just started working through a pretty good Python tutorial. Then my wife and
I adopted a dog...
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Fri - April 1, 2005
April Fools
Geek humor really comes alive on the web on April
Fool's day. Some of it isn't terribly funny, but it's all in good fun just the
same. Slashdot veers even further
away from sanity than usual, and there are more nonsensical stories and hoaxes
out there than even Wikipedia can
document. My favorite of the day, though, arrived in my email as the Effector
newsletter from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation: check out their April Fool's
issue...
Posted at 03:49 PM Read More
Thu - March 17, 2005
ePortal.com
It being Saint Patrick's Day, and me being awake
most of the night with a sneezing and coughing wife, I thought I'd take a moment
to hoist a pint of Guiness to Duane
Fahey's ePortal.com blog...
Posted at 04:17 AM Read More
Fri - February 25, 2005
Copyright Law and Orphaned Works
The internet has given us an unprecedented tool
for publishing everything from literature to software. At this moment, I'm just
two mouse clicks away from making this message available to every
internet-connected computer on the entire planet. In the U.S., I can post pretty
much anything I can create, within reason. But suppose I recover a piece of
commercial software from 25 years ago from an old cassette? And suppose that the
copyright holder is nowhere to be found? Can I post
that,
or use it in a derived work? U.S. copyright
law says
no.
But according to an alert I received from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we now
have an opportunity to change that...
Posted at 10:29 PM Read More
Thu - January 20, 2005
Firefox Blazes Towards 20 Million Downloads
After just 10 weeks, the new Firefox 1.0
browser has passed 19 million downloads and will blow past 20 million
by the month's end, surpassing everyone's expectations. Free versions are
available for almost anything out there (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux) in over
two dozen languages. But suppose you just use Internet Explorer, the web browser
built into Windows. Is there really any reason to download something else?
Definitely...
Posted at 05:12 PM Read More
Mon - December 27, 2004
Tsunami
At this moment, CNN is reporting the number of dead from
the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Asia to be "at least 23,000"
[update 12/31/2004... now more
than 120,000... dear God]. In the midst of
our holiday season, the survivors desperately need our prayers and help...
Posted at 11:23 AM Read More
Sat - December 25, 2004
Merry Christmas
Whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever
you believe, I wish you and your family peace and hope...
Posted at 07:55 AM Read More
Fri - December 10, 2004
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