damn pete.
¶ by Rob Frieselhow many times you been on Boing Boing now? Go Book Thing!
Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.
how many times you been on Boing Boing now? Go Book Thing!
Not that we didn’t already know it but Bush lied… Now he’s admitted it. Somehow that doesn’t make things any better. Then there’s Cheney: “Some people, both in this nation and abroad, have questions about that strategy … Make no mistake: President Bush is acting to protect the American people against further attacks, even when […]
Stop Verisign DNS Abuse Petition. IMPORTANT! All you domain spotters!
Blame Canada. Hehe… Saw this on Boing Boing today and thought “Didn’t I see this before…?” Checked the date — sure enough, I had. (Thanks, Wick!) The point: In Canada, if I own a CD and you borrow it and make a copy of it that is legal private copying; however, if I make you […]
I just downloaded some illegal MP3s and my friend told me that the RIAA is going to sue everyone who downloads music. What should I do?
He [Tom Williams] declined to say whether Wal-Mart would take any action against an employee who decided to take up Playboy’s offer.
Could the timing by *any* better!? Terribly interesting piece on open source in Africa shows up on Boing Boing right as this thread was starting to get somewhere… Open source is the only affordable, reliable option for the long term, he says. A spreadsheet supports his contention — installation of servers, workstations, networks and, crucially, […]
To pick up where we left off… Firstly: Paolillo’s research was done as a refutation to the idea that the net, in and of itself, is democratic and diverse because of its global reach and will hence foster those principles by its very nature. w00t! I couldn’t agree more. The assumption that the net (in […]
“…regions with the greatest linguistic diversity (e.g. Africa) lag significantly in Internet host and user growth, suggesting a widening of the digital divide at least for minority language groups.” Extremely hesitant to agree. And just as hesitant to disagree. While it’s true that regions of comparably high linguistic diversity frequently and consistently lag in technological […]
BigChampagne. Here comes the self-conscious, defensive, and more-than-slightly dodgy press releases from the RIAA-member states … er … labels. Who the hell else is really going to be flexing dollars on this service? (Thanks Wired!) Always interesting how these things come together: “The record industry’s lawsuits against file-sharing companies hang on their assertion that the […]