from here:
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to copy than this year; there’s not going to be a day in which it’s harder to copy than this day; from now on. Right? If copying gets harder, it’s because of a nuclear holocaust. There’s nothing else that’s [...]
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Cory Doctorow on art
30May08Sneaky spammers
18Jun07I just got a comment on a post I wrote a while back:
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Who is this thing for?. Thanks for informative article
At first I was like “aww, someone liked my post, how precious!” But the suspicion followed pretty quickly, and I started [...]
Little earthquakes
14Jun07and it was like bleep bleep bleepbleepbeep, and then, like, half of my paper was gone (Video)
For some reason, life has been playing little jokes on me all week. I don’t think there could’ve been more little disasters in my presentation in Computational Modeling. First, my laptop wouldn’t project. Then my thumbdrive [...]
Online IDEs and Freedom
06Jun07Google released Google Mashup Editor today, which is an online IDE in the spirit of Forkolator. Google Docs is pretty similar to a design I had been playing with too. I guess Google and I have similar goals. The difference is, they implement their ideas, and I often just blog about mine.
But [...]
I am a nerd.
09Jan07This is a surreal moment in the world of digital devices.
Until today, cellular phones as a whole have been among the worst designed pieces of equipment ever made. The culture amongst phone companies was one that rewarded impressive-sounding features and sexy enclosures, not ease of use and life-altering applications. Phones are a pain [...]
Gotcha
22Nov06Google has recently improved their book search so that you can read more easily… dragging pages around, zooming in and out, and such. To try the new features out, I went to books.google.com and searched for “cuisine” and clicked the first book in the results.
Go ahead, click the link. Browse through a the [...]
