From boingboing:
Cory Doctorow:
Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette has an amazing, balanced, in-depth profile on John Gilmore, the guy who Sun hired to write their first code, the guy who co-founded EFF, the guy who won’t show ID to get on an airplane:
In post 9/11 America, asking “Why?” when someone from an airline asks for identification can start some […]
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Underwater bike ride to launch students’ eight-week crime spree
As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity.
Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American […]
For those people I know who wouldn’t otherwise know about this:
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Firefox 1.0.1 out, squashes most security bugs
The first update to open-source browser Firefox is out. Released late yesterday, Firefox 1.0.1 aims to fix a slew of vulnerabilities. Foremost among those are domain-spoofing and cross-site scripting bugs. According to the Mozilla Foundation, 1.0.1’s release was pushed […]
Starbucks Gossip: Here’s a cake recipe for the Chantico fans out there
This recipe was posted in one of the STARBUCKS GOSSIP forums by “Chris.” Anyone care to guess the calories in one slice of this cake?
Chantico Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
* 1 box “Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Devil’s Food Cake” (you can use
other brands, as long as it’s […]
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mimi smartypants
I have a bottle of cheap hand lotion in my bedroom, and it is not a gentleman. I know this because no matter how often I politely explain, “Listen, hand lotion? I don’t play that way,” the hand lotion insists on ejaculating all over me. I do not mind, and in fact I […]
Truer words (about software development) were never spoken. Typical of jwz to say something so profound and so utterly ignored by 99% of the sw-devs/sw-marketers in the world, to their peril.
Groupware Bad
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that […]
A post inspired by my friend Mary:
ThinkGeek has this Swiss Memory USB module/knife geek-thingy. Mary apparently saw it at some point and sends me this email saying she doesn’t know why it would remind her of me *wink*. Hmm… me either. (Not.)
Here’s what I said to her about the Swiss Memory USB […]
A few minor plug-in related things to finish up, but mostly it’s done… four hours later. Not bad, I guess, considering all the plugins and other customizations I have installed. Not a lot of swearing at the computer either which is a pretty good measure of degree of difficulty/annoyance in the process. :) […]
Spirals show up everywhere from fractals to nautilus shells. Software developers know the spiral as iterative development–a model in stark (positive) contrast to the old linear waterfall model.
One huge problem with the waterfall model is that in its traditional form, it’s not based in reality. It assumes that it’s entirely possible for each stage […]
Do not use the Publish button when writing a private post. It over-rides the ‘Private’ radio button without warning. :P