My Contempt Knows No Bounds: The Starbucks “Come Together” Petition.
This petition was on a table by the doorway at a Starbucks near my house, during the recent government shutdown
Continue readingEben Moglen talks in New York City: “Snowden and the Future”
Arrgh, I wish I could go to this! Eben Moglen is giving a series of talks entitled “Snowden and the
Continue readingDear Lazyweb: How long will it take you to fix the LOVEINT problem?
Just for the record, I know I could have created the English-language wikipedia entry for LOVEINT myself. But I wanted
Continue readingMy favorite RSS reader, Feedbin.me, goes open source!
I’d been waiting for this! (N.b.: had inside information it was coming.) The code behind my favorite RSS reader, feedbin.me,
Continue readingOffline.
I’m taking a vacation from email for a few weeks, so please don’t worry if you don’t get a response — just
Continue readingCredit where credit is due: LibreOffice is now ridiculously easy to build.
About fifty million years ago, I encountered a minor bug in the OpenOffice word processor. It was an easy fix,
Continue readingMissing OSCON this year.
For those friends I’m not seeing in Portland this year: sorry to miss you this time! I decided, for once
Continue readingTaking sides.
Every Fourth of July, the New York Times prints the entire Declaration of Independence of the United States on the
Continue readingPRISM: Why the “directly and unilaterally” mistake matters.
My post about how a central claim of the PRISM story turns out not to be true has drawn a
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