Colbert Interviews Steve Wozniak – Your Daily Dose of The Colbert Report
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Love the bit with the biz card steak knife. 😉
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xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:28 am
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
Playing Devil’s Advocate to Win
Geeky as hell but I love this strip!
BOFH: Pulling a computer survey swifty | The Register
Ubuntu 6.10 Beta Released | Linuxlookup
By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:22 am
Ubuntu 6.10 Beta Released | Linuxlookup
Time to fire up the cdburner again… 😉
Northwest Florida Daily News: Smells like trouble: Parasitic weed sniffs out its prey
By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:21 am
Northwest Florida Daily News: Smells like trouble: Parasitic weed sniffs out its prey
A first in the plant world. Interesting read. Now to find a deodorent for tomatoes… 😉
UNEASYsilence » Your personal fart recorder
By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:15 am
UNEASYsilence » Your personal fart recorder
I know several folks that would love this. Damn if I am gonna tell them about it unless they read it here…
Guedelon
By Dave, September 29, 2006 10:13 am
One hell of a project! Building a castle (full size) using only indignious materials and human labor. Many years will be invested in this little effort…
Wish it was on this side of the pond so I could visit…
vintage airstream and other classic travel trailers
Britain became island in 24 hours | The Register
Arrow Head
By Dave, September 27, 2006 9:39 pm
Found a nice one today. Was on top of the hill on the power line and saw it sitting on bare spot a few feet from the power pole. Here’s pix:
One Side
Tother Side
Plasma Power Systems – How the Plasma Power System Works
By Dave, September 27, 2006 8:52 pm
Plasma Power Systems – How the Plasma Power System Works
Somewhat simplistic but at least gives a basic understanding of how it works. Trash to gas and power. Cool!
Teeny Linux PCs proliferate
By Dave, September 27, 2006 8:11 pm
Now this is a SMALL linux box! Thanks for the pointer Steve. Even if it was a while back.
Online but working on a site
By Dave, September 26, 2006 10:10 pm
Been working on a OSCommerce website for the last few days when not in the middle of the Airsoft War. Starting to see the light and hope to be through with the basic setup tomorrow.
For those interested, it’s an artists site to sell his work. URL is http://southernlifestyleart.com/shop/index.php. The site belongs to Frank Andrus.
If you have a chance take a look and give me some feedback. Still poking and prodding the code and uploading better copies of the artwork. Getting closer, just hope my hands will hold up.
Been working between the iBook and the pclosBox with the graphics. Doing the basic prep work in Graphic Converter on the iBook then transfering it to Gimp on the other machine and adding the watermark and reducing the jpgs from 100% to 85%. Doing it that way on the linux box to keep from having to strip mac data from the files before uploading them to the site.
Will try to get back to posting regular later in the week. Gots to get back to the pixel mines…
Ice the size of Texas melts in one year – earth – 26 September 2006 – New Scientist
By Dave, September 26, 2006 1:28 pm
Ice the size of Texas melts in one year – earth – 26 September 2006 – New Scientist
May be this is Earth’s way of telling President George W. Bush that global warming cannot be ignored: in just one year, the perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has shrunk by nearly three-quarters of a million square kilometres, an area comparable to that of Bush’s home state of Texas.
But will he bother listening. After all he makes it all up anyway… 🙁
Toad in the Hole with Roasted-onion Gravy from Delia Online
By Dave, September 26, 2006 9:56 am
Toad in the Hole with Roasted-onion Gravy from Delia Online
Looks good to me!
The Swank Pad
By Dave, September 26, 2006 12:11 am
Interesting stuff on the site but that isn’t the reason for the post. In the upper left hand corner there is the Hi-Fi button to push to listen to the radio feed. So being into some of this kind of music I try it. It takes me to Live365. Which says that the feed is only available to VIP users. This is not the first site I have gone to lately that uses Live365 and who knows it may be reasonable enough to try for a month. So I decide to see how much this radio thingie is. Go to the join now page and see that the payments are $5.95 a month or less depending on how long you are willing to, untried, commit to. Then I go and look at the TOS. Which are posted below in all it’s splender. I especially like section 8 where you have to send them written notice to cancel the service. After reading this CRAP I think I will PASS even though there are several stations that are only on this service that I would like to listen to. But not enough to put up with this kind of gargage agreement:
BOFH: Unconventional interview | The Register
By Dave, September 25, 2006 11:29 pm
BOFH: Unconventional interview | The Register
How many pints did you say you can drink?
😉
Friedman, Ventura pair up for campaign swing
By Dave, September 25, 2006 11:28 pm
Friedman, Ventura pair up for campaign swing
Give em hell, Kinkster!
GROKLAW
By Dave, September 25, 2006 11:24 pm
GROKLAW
The British Library Gets It!
Monday, September 25 2006 @ 04:04 PM EDT
Finally! Somebody gets it that DRM is altering the copyright law bargain, by not allowing fair dealing/fair use. And it’s the British Library that is speaking out and saying that the same rules of the road should apply in the digital world as they have always done. Copyright law includes fair use/fair dealing, and there will be incalculable damage if copyright law in the digital environment doesn’t retain those limitations on the copyright owner’s rights. The Library has issued an IP Manifesto [PDF]. I wish to say thank you to the British Library for issuing this document.
The IP Manifesto’s key recommendations include, quoting from the press release:
* Existing limitations and exceptions to copyright law should be extended to encompass unambiguously the digital environment;
* Licenses providing access to digital material should not undermine longstanding limitations and exceptions such as ‘fair dealing’;
* The right to copy material for preservation purposes – a core duty of all national libraries – should be extended to all copyrightable works;
* The copyright term for sound recordings should not be extended without empirical evidence of the benefits and due consideration of the needs of society as a whole;
* The US model for dealing with ‘orphan works’ should be considered for the UK;
* The length of copyright term for unpublished works should be brought into line with other terms (ie: life plus 70 years).
In other words, copyright law should not change in the digital environment, and if it doesn’t change, then fair dealing and fair use are just as applicable there.
Glad to see that there are some folks out there that are starting to fight back aginst the damn DRM crowd…
Themocracy