TIme to get back in the saddle. The past few months have seen me slip out of doing my podcast, then out of writing here on my blog, and even finally out of commenting much even at sites like Friendfeed. I’m hundreds of posts behind in RSS feeds, and I just generally feel a bit […]
Court gives detainees habeas rights – Wow. Joy. Awesome. I realize this freaks a lot of people out and makes them see red…but really, this is right the right thing to do. It doesn’t mean that bad people go free. It means bad people get a trial, and then (if guilty) punished…which is the bedrock, […]
Yesterday was another excellent podcast/book combo day, and it’s all Cory Doctorow, all the time. I’m listening to a podcast of his collaborative novella, “True Names” (co-written with Benjamin Rosenbaum)…it rocks!! I’m up to Part 6 or 7, (Ben and Cory take turns reading), and it’s quite excellent. Really out there…it’s a galaxy-spanning story of […]
Hurrah for Silicon Alley Insider: Time For Bank CEOs Like Wachovia’s Ken Thompson To Step Down — If CEOs get rewarded when companies like Washington Mutual, Citigroup (C), Wachovia, UBS, Merrill Lynch (MER), Morgan Stanley, GE (GE), Bear Stearns (BSC), et al, gamble and win–and, boy, do they get rewarded–then they should get punished when […]
Civil Liberties Groups Sue Homeland Security for Records on Intrusive Questioning and Searches of U.S. Travelers — I am 100% behind this, and very, very proud to be a card-carrying (and T-shirt wearing!) EFF member. Our government’s irrational zeal to do whatever is necessary to keep us safe has gone unchecked and unfettered for far […]
Thanks to David Rothman at TeleRead for the link to an interesting story: Validators, by Andy Oram. In the vein of Richard Stallman’s The Right to Read, or portions of David Brin’s Earth, Oram’s short story investigates the repercussions of a society in which a group, the Validators, serve as trusted arbiters and advocates of […]
I was sharing some links and camaraderie with my friends tonight, and it wasn’t on Facebook, or MySpace, or even Twi…ok, there was a little Twitter goin’ on. *grin*. But mainly…it’s mailing lists! Mostly created by me, using the awesome and easy to use GNU Mailman tool; you get easy web-based admin, online archives, etc. […]
Holy crap…I hate it when I let this stuff slip through. I had heard a bit about HR 1955 – Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, but I hadn’t read enough about it; and then it goes and passes the House 404 – 6. Yowch. One can, in a sense, look at […]
Urrgh…Facebook Pages for businesses and brands, Facebook Beacon (or whatever that goofy ad-thing is called), plugins that want access to my entire account so that I can compare movie ratings with a friend. It’s beyond enough. Not that I was ever a Facebook groupie or anything, but I see a shark jump coming. It’s useful […]
It’s been a big week in digital music, and I spent some time yesterday playing around and enjoying it. Not everything I did was new…I bought some music from the Amie Street music store, which has been around for awhile now. But things have changed…Amazon’s entry into this space, in my (and many others) opinion […]
