Richard Stallman (RMS in the Open Source world) has called for a boycott of Harry Potter. I can sympathize with his premise (a Canadian court ordered that people who were erroneously sold the book early weren’t to read them), but this is the stupidest idea I can think of as a response. RMS obviously does […]
Save yourself a ton of time and pain; backup Firefox bookmarks, cache, extensions, passwords, history, and cookies. Works for Thunderbird, too. Link
Most are under 30 minutes to make. Link [via Kottke Remainders]
This is a little dated, but Pope Benedict isn’t a fan of Harry Potter. Go figure, eh? “It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly,” wrote Cardinal Ratzinger. I’m sure sales […]
Fire up your BitTorrent client before the nasty classical music companies invoke copyright somehow on these public domain works which none of their artists performed. Link
I can think of a few University departments that subscribe to the same customer service manual that Michael Dell does. Dell has closed their public support forums because of the rising anti-Dell rhetoric going on on the boards. They even gave notice with this little re-history: The Customer Service boards on the Dell Community Forum […]
And you can make it at work, if someone doesn’t steal your milk. Hob’s zeitgeist
Some guy has posted direct links to many of the AOL-hosted Live 8 performances. The Pink Floyd clips are excellent, as is the R.E.M. performance. Check it out and sign the list at the Live 8 website.
Blogging has been (and will continue to be) light due to the overwhelming nature of buying a house. Since sleep is one of the first things sacrificed in the rush to move, I present a recipe to make 9 cups of concentrated, cold-press coffee. Link
Just remember, some guy in Brighton thinks he knows better than you. Invoking the “For the Children” mantra, Representative Chris Ward of Brighton introduced a bill to ban shipments of wine both in-state and into the state. All shipments would be banned unless, of course, you pay for a distributorship. Good luck getting one though. […]