My dreams as a imperfect mirror into my soul.
GNOME developer David Trowbridge on why the mobs posting a certain hexadecimal number around various places on the Internet are not being productive:
Most of the people copying this key did so under some delusional notion of “free speech” or “numbers not being copyrightable”. Under current US law (regardless of what you think of it), this [...]
Buddha Paintings Found in Tikal
As far as I could tell, I was channeling Erich von Däniken or something…
I was going to write about how these windows had to do with the dream I had about a concentration camp where all of the guards were animals (which simultaneously makes sense, in an Animal Farm kind of way, and is also complete nonsense), but I have neither the time nor the inclination to fully [...]
In general, I shy away from Flash-based games. I am not sure whether it is because of the low quality of most Flash games (i.e. stick figures) or because I feel guilty about wasting time or simply because most of them are not really that much fun. There are only so many times you can [...]
Ethan Zuckerman writes on a oddity from a StopBadware.org press release: based on almost 50,000 website submitted to Stop Badware, almost 20% were hosted by iPowerWeb. Both Zuckerman and StopBadware.org suggest that iPowerWeb might be suffering from security issues allowing hackers to inject malicious code into their customers' websites. StopBadware's co-director John Palfrey stated:
This list [...]
When I heard about the Postal Service's new "forever stamp" - which retains the value of a first-class stamp regardless of USPS rate increases, I was excited. I expected it to have some kind of futuristic design in keeping with its radical concept. Like an infinity symbol, or an ouroboros, or a picture of a [...]