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0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.

Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.

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0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.

Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.

Let's spread the link-love!

0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.

Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.

Let's spread the link-love!

0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.

Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.

Right, but it's still cheaper by FAR. If I buy a $24 ink cartridge that's supposed to make 100 prints (24 cents each), I print 10 photos, and the cartridge clogs up after a few months of inactivity, I just spent $2.40 per print.

Walgreens et al do use inkjet printers, but they buy the good-quality photo paper (which costs a good deal more than regular paper) and they maintain their equipment themselves. I still don't see any reason, short of mass-production or fear of irrational allegations of child pornography, to print photos at home.

Do you mean when dealing with clients or management?

Actually, both. I don't work in a call center any more. Thank God!

because it often makes them "go away"

Bingo!

a refusal to address the problem

Refusal doesn't enter into it. As soon as you discover that you can't actually fix the problem, you do what's necessary to get rid of the unhappy customer. You've obviously mistaken me for someone who cared. Go work in a call center and then you'll understand what a shithole they are. With any luck, the unhappy customer will take their business elsewhere and the call center would go out of business. Who wants to listen to people bitch eight hours a day?

I've got a real job now. Thank God! I'm recovering my moral center. I now have the resources and training to do my job. I can actually fix problems. And I care about my customers and management. I supposed the lesson I learned in the call center is that survival outweighs morality. Not a lesson that I wanted to learn.

Widely believed to be a result of thimerosol (Largely Mercury) in vaccines. One Amish community studied for Autism had only 4 cases. 1 child had large exposure to mercury while really young, and the other 3 had been vaccinated when they were babies.

http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosa l/index_np.html

From Salon's feature Forbidden thoughts about 9/11:

My sister moved to Brooklyn on the night of Sept. 10. On the morning of the 11th, she and her best friend coped the best way they knew how: They climbed to their roof with a bottle of tequila, watched the towers burn, and toasted the day with a black-humor contest. Whoever could think of the grimmest, ugliest, most horrifying joke would win.

My sister called out, "To an unobstructed view of lower Manhattan!" and tossed off her tequila. The winning toast turned out to be, "To employment opportunities in the New York Fire Department!"

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I frantically called a friend's cellphone in lower Manhattan. An elementary school teacher, he was evacuating students when I rang. He was in sight of the just fallen towers. He said, "When the radio played 'It's Raining Men' this morning, I didn't realize they were serious." When I reminded him of this charming comment some months later, he didn't remember making it.

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During the whole awful day, I was kind of excited that something had finally happened for MY generation so I didn't have to listen to my grandparents bitch about Pearl Harbor endlessly and ask why doesn't my generation get some direction.

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I'm a college debater and the topic last year (decided in August) was international terrorism. What I kept thinking all day was, Damn, my research is completely useless. Those assholes!

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Within 12 hours of the tragedy, it occurred to me that they'll never, ever show that great episode of the "The Simpsons" where the family goes to New York and Homer has to take a whiz in the World Trade Center.

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Sept. 12 I heard some people talking about the different state quarters. Shuffling through their pockets they pulled out a few and noted that the New York quarter had a picture of the Statue of Liberty on it. "Heh, heh, lucky they didn't put a picture of the twin towers on it," one said.

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Q: What's Osama bin Laden's favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets.
-- Terry Forte, who says the joke was conceived on Sept. 12

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Also, in thinking about the possible end of the world, one of the thoughts I was most upset by went something like this: "FUCK. If we're all barricaded in bunkers we won't be able to go to the movies anymore."

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"Well, I guess Gary Condit's relieved."

--overheard by Josh Anderson, 30, Arlington, Va., during the week of 9/11

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2001 was a great year for me; I hated the twin towers and I hated the Taliban and now they're both gone!

-- Lesbian feminist from Greenwich Village

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I knew a guy who narrowly escaped getting hit by a falling body. The first e-mail he sent out, two hours later, was, "Hey, how do we get ahold of all the new 212 cell numbers that'll be available?"

I had another friend who watched the towers go down from Brooklyn, didn't know what to do to get out his sudden rage against Arabs, so he opened his refrigerator and started throwing out all his Middle Eastern food, yelling as he tossed items one by one into the garbage: "Fuck this baba ghanoush! We don't need their fucking pita bread!" I won't even tell you what he did to the hummus.

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My husband and I were playing Jenga afterward. When the Jenga collapsed, I shouted "North Tower." Then the second round of the game, we shouted, "South Tower." Now we don't call it Jenga anymore. We call it North Tower.

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When I heard there was a terror attack downtown, I hoped the situation would degenerate into urban guerrilla warfare. I was really psyched to go out and kick some Islamist ass.

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I worked at a prominent chain of sex stores. On Sept. 11, I worked there all day, and as weirdo after weirdo came in, oblivious to the fact that hijacked airplanes had just crashed into and destroyed American landmarks and killed thousands of people (at that time, people were guessing up to 50,000 plus), I thought, Godammit. Of all the times to be on commission at a fucking sex store ...

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When Slashdot publishes something and people get too much traffic (being "Slashdotted"), it makes an impression. I wonder if Slashdot might join this boycott whether that wouldn't make more difference than many of us put together. A kind of "anti-slashdotting" effect.

Alternatively, perhaps someone should construct a trampoline thing like Salon has where in order to gain entrance to the site, you can watch an "ad" (something explaining the issue) to trampoline through. For big sites that were leary of losing cash flow by shutting down, it might still allow them to contribute to the effort.

Let's just hope they can actually put someone good in that is young and can actually grasp today's technology better.

I nominate Paris Hilton! Who better to rule on issues of privacy rights and data security?

"Swing vote? That's hot!"

This is reprinted from salon.com.

People for the American Ways list and description of notable 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that could have gone the other way if a more conservative justice were sitting in OConnors seat:

• Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) affirmed the right of state colleges and universities to use affirmative action in their admissions policies to increase educational opportunities for minorities and promote racial diversity on campus;
• Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. EPA (2004) said the Environmental Protection Agency could step in and take action to reduce air pollution under the Clean Air Act when a state conservation agency fails to act;
• Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran (2002) upheld state laws giving people the right to a second doctors opinion if their HMOs tried to deny them treatment;
• Hunt v. Cromartie (2001) affirmed the right of state legislators to take race into account to secure minority voting rights in redistricting;
• Tennessee v. Lane (2004) upheld the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and required that courtrooms be physically accessible to the disabled;
• Hibbs v. Winn (2004) subjected discriminatory and unconstitutional state tax laws to review by the federal judiciary;
• Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) told the government it could not indefinitely detain an immigrant who was under final order of removal even if no other country would accept that person;
• Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (2001) affirmed that civil rights laws apply to associations regulating interscholastic sports;
• Lee v. Weisman (1992) continued the tradition of government neutrality toward religion, finding that government-sponsored prayer is unacceptable at graduations and other public school events;
• Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington (2003) maintained a key source of funding for legal assistance for the poor;
• Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia (1996) said key anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act apply to political conventions that choose party candidates;
• Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee (2001) upheld laws that limit political party expenditures that are coordinated with a candidate and seek to evade campaign contribution limits;
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) upheld most of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, including its ban on political parties use of unlimited soft money contributions;
• Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) overturned a state ban on so-called partial birth abortion; and
• McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005) upheld the principle of government neutrality towards religion and ruled unconstitutional Ten Commandments displays in several courthouses.

stealing millions of dollars from your employees... 10 years in prison
(http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel04 /enron01 1404.htm)

inflating your companies earnings by $2.7 billion dollars, so you can get rich off the stock...acquittal on 36 counts.
(http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050628/healthsou th_scrush y.html?.v=25)

using what amounts to slave labor to fatten your pockets...become the largest and richest company in the world.
(http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_40/b3 701119.h tm)

revealing the identity of an undercover cia officer because her husband doesn't like your president...get off scot free.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/02/novak /index_np.html

sharing a movie with friends...5 years in prison.

this is insane.

Microsoft is funded by terrorists who use their software to plot devilish crimes. (Windows 2K in fact.)

I thought so too, until I read these articles:

The problem with music (a.k.a. Some of your friends are probably already this f****d.)
Bye, bye, a piece of the pie

which are good when read in conjunction with Courtney Love's infamous speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment
conference.

The mutually exclusive definitions of "telecommunications" vs "info" services in the law the Court interpreted is a bad model of the technology. Unfortunately, Congress and the Court is collectively so ignorant of technology, and immune to the damage their reality-disconnected decisions make, that they won't face that reality. And of course that guy in the White House doesn't know anything about anything at all, except that he's popular - why should he do anything about it, when he has no problem with his phone bill?

Who needs a murder-simulator when you can join the police force and experience the real thing?

+ Shoot a young unarmed black man to death with 41 shots!

+ Kill a young woman by shooting a "non-lethal" pepper-spray projectile into her eyeball!

+ Needlessly taser young children, women and elderly people with 50,000 volts as you see fit!

+ Beat up, shove to the ground, handcuff and arrest blind elderly women in their own home!

Yes, order POLICE-FORCE today from your local videogame retailer and you too can be a civic-minded hero!

And by the way:

"This is what your kids will be digesting if you buy this," Grace said as game footage was shown. "One law officer after the next gunned down in the line of duty."

Kids will only be digesting it if adults buy it for them. Presumably most kids too young to be (theoretically) impressionable enough to go out and kill cops becuase they played a videogame about it don't have the $70 for an Xbox game.

"Here's a philanthropist and a powerful man, the richest man in the world, and yet he's making available to children around the world on Xbox a cop-killing game."

How much of the game centers around killing cops? For all we know, killing cops is just a small incidental portion of the game that they're focusing on because they're sick fucking perverts trying to exploit the public by making it an issue. And how is it a cop-killing game? I assure you, the cops in the game are not real. They are rendered animations displayed on the television. Kind of like a cartoon. No real cops are harmed.



Well, if you want those kids to be susceptible to your recruiters in a couple of years, you better start breaking down their inhibitions now so they'll be blood thirsty killing machines when you want them to be.

There is one site I let advertise to me - http://www.salon.com/

Why? I find the content worthwhile....

Worthwhile content? Now there's an idea....perhaps if more sites had some, people would not mind advertising so much.

(I'm looking at you, every two-bit "review site" on the internet!)

Why should Microsoft, or any other corporation, use its money and waste its time providing patches and other OS updates to people who have illegally obtained the OS?

Because leaving all those machines unpatched hurts their own customers, dumbass. They need to fix their priorities or risk loosing the privledge of getting our money for their products.

Fine, if you can't be bother to educate yourself.

http://archive.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/08 /28/work_for_hire/index1.html

Fucking turd.

The sad thing is that RIAA action was carried out after the bill had cleared congress. No one got thrown in jail for that patently illegal act though.

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/l ove/print.html

Hokay, let's compare this to Mr. Clinton, who...
Was set up by a multi-millionare who paid at least 40 people to perjure themselves, and as a result, lied in court about fingering Monica.

Hell brother, I don't know what I was thinking. You're right, Slick Willie was a frickin' Enemy Of The Republic.

But isnt that the point. Science fiction gives people something to strive towards. Whether it be a utopian society, an expansive universce to explore, or simply a future where technology makes life better, science fiction provides people with imaginative and currently far fetched ideas that may one day be realities.

Opiates don't make you think the world will be better, they make you think the world is better. Sitcoms are the opiates of the masses. They show people in "bubbles" acting out mundane, overdone, and common situations, over and over again. Sci-fi, if anything, gives you hope but also helps show whats wrong with the world now. If you think that the world today is as egalitarian, free, and open as it is in Star Trek, then you aren't reading enough good journalism

When it comes to matters of taste you can't say that someone is wrong. Someone may think that gold and red velvet wall paper is the height of interior design. I think that it is ghastly, something only Elton John could love. But my opinion is no more valid that the person who loves the wall paper.

I thought that the review was far too kind to Codex. I thought that Codex was a terrible book. The characters were wooden and the plot was predictable and empty. Yes there was some open source software, but it really did nothing for the plot. As others have noted, when it comes to mysteries/thrillers involving rare books, Perez-Reverte's Club Dumas is much better (the movie made from Club Dumas, the Ninth Gate directed by Polanski is also excellent).

It is worth nothing that not only is the author of Codex a poor writer, he's a weasel too. He wrote an article in Salon about how he cooked his score on Amazon for his previous novel ( The Terrors of the Amazon ). He appeared to do this for Codex as well. There were a number of rave reviews by people who had never reviewed a book before on Amazon. Sure everyone writes their first review at sometime. But here is an admitted forger with a bunch of suspecious reviews.

My advice is that if you must read Codex, get it from the library. If you really must buy it, purchase the book used. But life is short and there are so many other good books. I recommend that you read something else.

Lost in the Mix [Registration required or day-pass].

In a new book, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore and his hipster pals lament the demise of the mix tape in the age of the iPod.

..."Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture." Edited by Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore, "Mix Tape" claims to be the first book wholly devoted to mix-tape culture. "Not only is [the era of the mix tape] over, but there are so many people who don't even know what it is," Moore said in a long phone interview. "Think of people born in the '80s."

Baldrson writes "Peter Diamandis, originator of the Ansari X-Prize is now claiming private companies may beat NASA back to the Moon: "In the next five to eight years we will have the first private orbital flights occurring. When you're in orbit you are two-thirds of the way to anywhere. I predict that within about three years of private human orbital flights...you'll have the first private teams of people stockpiling fuel on orbit and making a bee-line for the Moon." If Diamandis's math is correct and Bigelow's $50M America's Space Prize is sufficient for orbit, NASA could set up an "Apollo Prize" for a lot less money than they'd spend themselves to return to the moon. Indeed, someone like Paul Allen could afford to endow such a prize if NASA gets too bogged down with funding cycle politics again."

• Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
• Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
• Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.
• Linux Lab set up shop in Bangalore!
• Daniel Robbins decided to sell out his open source compatriots by taking a job with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington!

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?

Well, what are you really looking for? Do you like the serial form because it makes you slow down when reading an entire novel, or cuts it up into bite-sized chunks?

You could always just take a regular novel, slice it up, put each chapter in an envelope, and get a friend to mail them to you one at a time.

Seriously, this just isn't done much anymore. I know one example -- Dave Eggers was publishing a serial novel on Salon.com (subscription or sommething probably required)... it got up to episode 35 and kind of stopped (was that the end? I don't know) last summer. I'm guessing they abandoned the idea... and frankly, I wasn't reading it anymore, anyway. Serial novels are a form that seems very hard to do well -- the author doesn't get a chance to *revise* when he's painted himself into a corner, plotwise, or when he realizes he's running out of good material; he just has to keep on going, ignoring the inconsistencies and poor story arc and so on.

I'd say you're better off with a good book. Or... you could do some digging in a good library (ask the reference librarian for help) in finding what you want in old magazines; one of those old serials packed with spies and women on railroad tracks, with a cliff-hanger at the end of every segment could be fun to read.

• Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
• Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
• Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.
• Linux Lab set up shop in Bangalore!
• Daniel Robbins decided to sell out his open source compatriots by taking a job with Microsoft in Redmond, Washington!

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?

Don't lecture people about cultural biases you've supposed on me. I'm not even Christian. I've seen every Miyazaki film except Howl and probably more anime than you ever will. I'm quite familiar with the idiosyncrasies of Japanese film and anime.

My point, once again: Miyazaki, IMHO, is overrated. He is not the best anime has to offer. His storytelling style in SA, KDS, MNT, and probably HMC is disjointed. The stories are loaded with style but lacking in substance and direction. You are free to disagree, but I am hardly alone in thinking so. Contrary to the parent article, Miyazaki's incoherent storytelling will not save Disney from their crappy scripts.

Specifically, Jackson determined that Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by unlawfully "tying" its Web browser to its operating system, and by a series of other anti-competitive acts that included foregoing millions of dollars in revenue through its practice of giving away the browser for free, and applying extreme pressure on Internet service providers and hardware retailers. Jackson also declared that Microsoft's creation of a version of the Java programming language incompatible with Sun Microsystems' Java fit into the same pattern of abusive practices.

As its internal contemporaneous documents and licensing practices reveal, Microsoft decided to bind Internet Explorer to Windows in order to prevent Navigator from weakening the applications barrier to entry, rather than for any pro-competitive purpose.

Perhaps you might be familar with the following drama...

Seems like a total non-starter idea to me...

Dejas only went back to 1995 though didn't they? Google's innovation was to extend the archive back to 1982. Granted Henry Spencer's tapes were used, but no one else has put them online complete back to 1982 as far as I know.

See for example David Wiseman's history of the recovery or the Salon.com overview article.

In summary, Google only really started encouraging the tape restore project about six months before groups.google.com kicked off. The idea of restoring Henry's tapes had been widely thought of in the 1990s, and Wiseman had picked them up to start the project, but it took some years to accomplish, along with help from various people and some equipment from Brewster Kahle.

And I'm leaving out a bunch of stuff. I won't try and credit everyone involved in the process here, but it was lots of people. Good on all of them.

• Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
• Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
• Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.
• Linux Lab set up shop in Bangalore!

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to?

"Peter Diamandis, originator of the Ansari X-Prize is now claiming private companies may beat NASA back to the Moon: "In the next five to eight years we will have the first private orbital flights occurring. When you're in orbit you are two-thirds of the way to anywhere. I predict that within about three years of private human orbital flights...you'll have the first private teams of people stockpiling fuel on orbit and making a bee-line for the Moon." If Diamandis's math is correct and Bigelow's $50M America's Space Prize is sufficient for orbit, NASA could set up an "Apollo Prize" for a lot less money than they'd spend themselves to return to the moon. Indeed, someone like Paul Allen could afford to endow such a prize if NASA gets too bogged down with funding cycle politics again."

Sure. It's the same rationale for abolishing capital gains tax. The money has already been taxed.

Can you spot the double taxation?

• "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_main/
• What's wrong (and right)with "The Phantom Menace" http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_side/index.html
• A note on the Enlightenment, Romanticism and science fiction http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_note/index.html

• "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_main/
• What's wrong (and right)with "The Phantom Menace" http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_side/index.html
• A note on the Enlightenment, Romanticism and science fiction http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_note/index.html

• "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_main/
• What's wrong (and right)with "The Phantom Menace" http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_side/index.html
• A note on the Enlightenment, Romanticism and science fiction http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06/15 /brin_note/index.html

• Difficult conversations, a book about confronting people in tough situations.
• The argument clinic, Monty Python (If you've never seen it, watch it before reading this script. It's in the 3rd season, disc 9 of the boxed set). Also see the splunge scene in episode 6.
• Games people play, Eric Byrne. A book on transactional analyis: a model for why people behave as they do in certain situations.
• The informed argument, Robert Miller. Textbook style coverage of both proper and unfair argument tactics.
• With good reason, Morris Engel. a short summary of common logic manipulations, explained with a sense of humor (over a dozen cartoons).
• Why smart people can be so stupid, Salon.com
  

• Difficult conversations, a book about confronting people in tough situations.
• The argument clinic, Monty Python (If you've never seen it, watch it before reading this script. It's in the 3rd season, disc 9 of the boxed set). Also see the splunge scene in episode 6.
• Games people play, Eric Byrne. A book on transactional analyis: a model for why people behave as they do in certain situations.
• The informed argument, Robert Miller. Textbook style coverage of both proper and unfair argument tactics.
• With good reason, Morris Engel. a short summary of common logic manipulations, explained with a sense of humor (over a dozen cartoons).
• Why smart people can be so stupid, Salon.com
  

I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.

No, definitely not the first.

• Marc Andreessen made 100s of millions of dollars shortly after graduating from UIUC. Today's graduates of the same university face moving back in with their parents. "Fuck that, I got mine!"
• Brian Behlendorf decided he'd rather go to India to recruit software engineers than help out the graduating classes of 2001-2004 here in the US.
• Robert Malda stood idly by and said NOTHING while his company offshored its flagship product.

Miguel de Icaza, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, and Linus Torvalds all got rich off the Open Source Movement. What do you have to look forward to? OSDN == Offshore Software Development NOW!!! Read how OSDN is helping to offshore American High-Tech to the Third World!

As long as Rush Limbaugh hasn't succeeded in brain-washing all the Americans, some of them may still have a chance to find such tidbits here

ICT issues? Not anymore.

Not since Slate (created to take out Salon) has taken over content in that area. But that's not alone, Chairman Bill's foundation dumps many hundreds of thousands of dollars on NPR each year. Probably those 'donations' have strings attached if places like India, Australia show us anything.

MPAA President Dan Glickman has an excellent point. In light of the fact that Revenge of the Sith just pulled in $50 million dollars in one day, an all-time record for an opening day film, we must view the illegal copies of Sith floating around on Bittorrent as an abject failure. Bittorrent distribution, in this case, failed to make even a tangible dent in the viewership of Sith.

Hollywood's stars shine just a little dimmer this evening in the face of this crushing development.

Amazon.com - E-commerce pioneer seeking to offer the world's largest selection of products online. for details.

AvantGo - Mobile applications for handheld devices.

DynDNS.org - One of the world's largest providers of free and premium Dynamic DNS services.

Findory - Personalized news and blogs aggregator. Findory learns what kind of content you like by the pages you read.

Live365.com - The world's largest Internet radio website.

Salon.com - Online magazine covering news, politics, technology, art, sex and health; winner of numerous web awards.

Weta Digital - Weta Digital are well known as the special effects people behind the Lord of the Rings films. At his OSCON 2004 keynote, Milton Ngan of Weta Digital thanked some technologies, including Mason, which is used as part of their intranet.

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AcuTrans.net - Home page for AcuTrans, a company providing an online content management system integrated with transcription services (built with Mason) for business, legal, medical, and self-insured companies.

Adventist.org - The official web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Alhazred - Progressive music project being produced with open source/free software

Alzabo.org - Home page for Alzabo data modelling tool.

American Lung Association of Washington - Assuring lung health for the people of Washington state through research, education, community service and advocacy.

Apartments - Apartments for rent by RentersInc.com. Free apartment search engine and apartment guide.

arabellan - Web presence of Ryan "Exide Arabellan" Zander, a graphical artist.

astrojax.com - amazing fun and action game - community website with lots of features.

Autismeinfocentrum.nl - Information- and documentationcentre about autism and related subjects in the Netherlands.

AutoSupplyUK.com - Used Japanese import auto store.

B BDO - Austrian tax consultancy

Beotechnic - Company specializing in knowhow transfer

Bikeworld.com - Online retailer, sporting a new 100% Mason-powered site that was developed entirely in-house.

bizjournals.com - Publisher of 41 weekly business newspapers across the US.

BlackSpider - Managed services provider focused exclusively on the provision of e-mail security solutions.

Burma-Shave.org - All of the original Burma-Shave jingles, plus the Burma-Shave Daily mailing list.

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cibera.de - cibera is an online library site which offers a central access point to interdisciplinary material concerning the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking area as well as the Caribbean.

Cars - iCarsInc.com Cars for sale. Buy and sell new and used cars online. Your next auto purchase starts right here. Find new, used, classics, sports cars, luxury cars, trucks, SUVï½s and even motorcycles for sale.

Yeah, Steve, whatever you and Bill say. While you're at it, dance monkeyboy!

Credibility? We've heard of it somewhere...

I'm sorry but your ignorant post pisses me off. If you want to be stupid and continue to propagate rumors that Al Core invented the Internet keep that tripe to your circle of small-minded sheep.

Your joke doesn't work because Al Gore never said he created, nor invented the Internet, but SCO has claimed they own portions of Unix.

Get your facts right before you embarass yourself on an International scale.

This review from Salon (required to watch an ad to read the whole thing)

I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But "Revenge of the Sith" is still crap

and by the way, Ebert has been giving more and more "crap" good thumbs up lately. That's one of the reasons the late Siskel is missed--he balanced Roger out, and when they both gave a thumb's up, it actually meant something.

In related news, The Economist has adopted the earn a day pass for premium content idea popularized by Salon.com. I wonder which publication has the best economists?