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Ha’aretz – A near-death experience
A young female Palestinian terrorist sits in a detention room opposite the Israeli defense minister and cries. “What will happen to me now?” she asks him. “What will become of me? What will my future be? Am I going to rot in prison for 20 years for something I didn’t do?” Benjamin Ben-Eliezer’s
expression reveals nothing.
More humor: The Rotten Dot Com Big Book of Sign Language
Quotes from the Movie JAWS in Which “Shark” is Replaced By “Jimmy Page.”
You see a barracuda, everyone says, ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘Jimmy Page,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the 4th of July.
These phenomenal portraits were taken at last year’s OSCON. They are of course being served on Open Source software, with an XML/Perl gallery package called Spider Eyeballs.
Forwarding Address: OS X – a blog of experiences of people moving onto os x.
Mac OS X: The Search for OS Canaan is a similar blog. One of the writers Damon Wright is in the Apple ad campaign.
atnewyork.com is reporting that Rep. Boucher (VA-09) in introducing a bill to codify and strengthen fair use. My initial reaction mirrors uncoverer’s:
It is great that fair use, the public domain, and consumers have a friend in Congress. Rick Boucher is a great public servant who deserves our support. It’s a shame that we need a new law to secure what should be protected already by the First Amendment, though. An idea, once expressed, belongs to the public domain, and is only loaned to copyright holders to promote creativity and innovation. Fair use is a natural right. It is part of free speech.
What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? – This NY Times article examines the controversy around the state of our dietary understanding. I wish I could say that it’s surprising how little we actually know, but it’s really not. As advanced as we like to think we are, we really don’t know that much, whether it be physiology, psychology, or metaphysics.
Last night I wrote a little script that will list what DVDs I have out from Netflix (as well as the next 10 in the queue).
The other night, P2P research got brought up in conversation, /. just had a recent discussion on Random Walkers. There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on w/ P2P networks (Personally, I’m more interested in the Reputation System and metadata aspects, but the pure network topology stuff is pretty neat as well). Some random links: p2p-hackers, OpenP2P.com, infoAnarchy, Ben Houston’s P2P Idea Page, Free Haven Project Papers, Freenet Papers, boing-wiki P2P Technology, University of Cincinnati Network Visualization Research, www.networkgeography.org