Plame Leaked by Fake News Source? Part VI
- Wow. These guys are really organizing now around this distributed journalism. Please take a look and see if you can help out. I have someone in Ft. Hood that might be able to give general info...
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on Mon 01/31/05
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Linux in Government: Another Look at Linux in the MS Infrastructure
- Samba eating Microsoft's lunch. I smell a patent infingement case...
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on Mon 01/31/05
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cluetrain/hughtrain
- Cluetrain Manifesto: "This is why we hate you." Hughtrain Manifesto: "This is how we're going to fuck you up."
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on Mon 01/31/05
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Porter Stemming Algorithm
- Implementations in lots of different languages, too. Nice.
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on Mon 01/31/05
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My Experiences With Subversion
- Nice look at moving to subversion. Go into migrating from CVS, subversion idioms, gotchas, etc.
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on Sun 01/30/05
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Version Control with Subversion
- Entire subversion book on one page.
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on Sun 01/30/05
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Iraq and cynicism
- I guess that sums it up pretty well.. Gah! sucks...
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on Sat 01/29/05
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Gilberto Gil's extraordinary engagement with Brazilians
- Wow! You mean the political figures *talk* to the people in this backward country? That's never going to work!
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on Fri 01/28/05
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JHymn - Removing DRM from iTunes
- Excellent O'Reilly article describing Apple's DRM apparatus in detail and pointers to tools for curing your crippled music..
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on Fri 01/28/05
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PlaysMaybe
- Finally, CE manufacturers will be placing a badge on their crippled-with-DRM devices to inform the consumer that said devices suck and should be considered broken. Oddly enough, the badge reads: PlaysForSure.
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on Fri 01/28/05
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PBS FRONTLINE: Watch online
- Full video library of PBS' Frontline. I've never heard of Frontline but they've covered some interesting topics. All available through the web.
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on Thu 01/27/05
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Eclipse Java-GNOME Demo
- Demo of 100% free Java/Eclipse natively compiled with gcj. This is slated for Fedora Core 4.
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on Wed 01/26/05
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How Groovy Lost its Groove Thang
- Interesting look at how Groovy has been floundering for quite some time now under the JSR process. I wasn't aware of any of this..
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on Wed 01/26/05
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Cory Doctorow: "Copyright vs Community" (MOV, MPEG)
- Feature length lecture by Cory Doctorow on copyright, DRM, and other digital rights issues. CC share-alike licensed.
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on Wed 01/26/05
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Open-Source Java Under Consideration
- Hmmm.. Maybe the confirmed "three letter part" referred to: "S" "U" "N"?
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on Wed 01/26/05
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The Firefox Religion
- Blake Ross talks about what drove every Firefox design decision: simplicity.
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on Tue 01/25/05
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Java get/set - not that harmful
- Bill de hÓra challenges some of the points I made in Getters/Setters/Fuxors. Specifically, the getter/setter bloat and IDE comparisons. Some good points here.
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on Mon 01/24/05
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HOWTO: Mod a microwave to melt iron
- Perfect science experiment for the kids.
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on Mon 01/24/05
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WS-Who's-on-First
- Oh, this is brilliant. Look at the bright side, Mark, at least it's horribly useless in a way that's interoperable!
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on Sun 01/23/05
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How to ambush Fox News
- Vanity Fair's Judy Bachrach disturbs Fox's plans of a nice afternoon of inauguration coverage. Note that lying about what you're going to talk about and being on Live are requirements for getting an honest opinion onto the TV.
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on Sun 01/23/05
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NY Times: Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics
- People would just come up to me and say, 'How'd you lose your arm?' " Mr. Acosta said. "And I'd say, 'In the war.' And they would be like, 'What war?' "
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on Sun 01/23/05
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The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
- Finally got a chance to read through this massive piece. It's worth the time if you have it.
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on Sun 01/23/05
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Social Security For Dummies
- Understand how Social Security works and why Bush is saying there's a "crisis".
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on Sat 01/22/05
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Sony: DRM cost us the Walkman
- The first time I've heard a major player admit that DRM is harmful.
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on Fri 01/21/05
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Open Source Radio
- "A space for you to help contribute to a forthcoming CBC radio column about the open-source movement." This is a great example of blog-as-collaboration-tool.
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on Fri 01/21/05
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Social Security: There Is No Crisis
- Awesome looking grassroots blog-based initiative to respond to the dismantling of social security by the Bush administration and republican congress..
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on Thu 01/20/05
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Why is the president's daughter throwing signs?
- "Is it me, or is Jenna Bush holding up the sign of Satan next to her father's face?"
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on Thu 01/20/05
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