Category Archives: Computers

The Free Culture AudioBook Project

Chocolate and Vodka :: Something for Nothing: The Free Culture AudioBook Project is an interesting look at the madness behind the decision to publish a book under an open license and the following grassroots audiobook project that sprouted up from it.

The book, Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is a look at how our culture today is losing its battle against big media in terms of adapting to the changing role of the internet and technology in terms of copyright. So far I’m on Chapter 5 (of the Audiobook… gotta love the iPod).

As soon as I finish the book I’ll post a mini-review.

Bug Me Not

BugMeNot.com, a free service that gives you login names/passwords to use for sites that require registration to view content. Includes a handy bookmarklet, too.

Not Dave Chappelle, Not Funny

You’re not Dave Chappelle, and you’re not funny. I love Maddox.

Speedy Sheets

Speedy Sheets, just for my future reference.

Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0 licenses | Creative Commons. I should set this site up with one of their licenses.

Google Bomb List

Google Bomb List. I like ‘unelectable’ and ‘Bush’s foreign friends’.

TextDrive: An Offer

TextDrive: An Offer: $199 for ‘lifetime’ webhosting. I just signed up.

Dead Mouse

My IntelliMouse Explorer that I purchased back on July 4, 2000 (incidentally my first purchase ever from Amazon.com) finally croaked last week. Somehow a cable had become disconnected on the interior of the mouse causing intermittent problems. After a few hours, the thing totally died (not even the LED on the bottom was lit).

So I called up Microsoft, the conversation went something like this:
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Bittorrent

A new version of BitTorrent for the Mac is out. The new Mac GUI interface looks stellar, I won’t have to use Azureus after all.

Bastet

Bastet, it’s the bastardized version of tetris where if always gives you the worst possible block. It’s really tough.

Brad Froehle

My blog, pre-2005.