My usual rants about copyright law involve unwarranted strengthening of copyright law to protect old works that ought to be public domain by now. This post, however, deals with the drastic weakening of copyright protections by the proposed Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R.5889). This piece of legislation would damage the livelihoods of living artists, [...]
There are three strips of 520 that have newer pavement on them, laid sometime last summer. They really do make a difference in tire hiss as you drive across them. Assuming traffic is moving in the morning, I get a couple minutes of blessed silence from the road as I drive across asphalt rubber [...]
Ah, spring in Seattle. The flowers are blooming. The trees are turning green. The birds are singing. The snow is accumulating.
Yes, snow. Last I checked the calendar, we’re in the latter half of April, and the magnolia in the front yard has a dusting of snow on its new blossoms. The drive home this evening [...]
Near-constant discussion of City of Heroes / City of Villains on IRC over the last couple of days has chipped away at my will, and I nabbed the Good Versus Evil Edition from the local Gamestop for twenty bucks. I gave up on City of Heroes some time ago, getting bored at level 24 on [...]
It’s shocking how bad the Windows Mobile browser is. Not only has it taken vast amounts of time waiting for pages to load, I’m not entirely certain I’m entering this in the correct part of the WordPress interface. Regardless of whether or not the post even appears, I won’t be able to read it, because [...]
Or at least with more consistency. I’m firing up the old blog again after leaving it fallow for a couple of years. I’m finding I miss committing thought to text, tossing ideas out into the ether for people to see. Or not. It matters little to me whether or not I have a huge following; [...]
Amidst the uproar and ridicule over the wacky new controller design for the Nintendo Revolution, it’s great to see some more level-headed commentary on what Nintendo might be trying to accomplish. Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller is an insightful article about how Nintendo has positioned itself as an innovation leader [...]
Some of the most clever paper engineering I’ve seen has resulted in the transformation of a pair of Paris Métro tickets into an itty bitty X-wing fighter. X-wing en tickets de métro step by step contains all the instructions you need to convert your Métro tickets into the premier starfighter of the Rebel Alliance.
As a long-time Emacs afficionado, I find this article rather amusing. Emacs Key Bindings Make You Retarded makes the case that years of being used to abominations such as hitting Ctrl+A to go to the beginning of a line can actually prevent you from using newer interfaces that are probably much better, ergonomically and productively. [...]
Yeah, it’s probably been linked to a jillion times by now, but it’s new and freshly hysterical to me. If you haven’t given it a gander, you owe it to yourself to read The “Holy Crap We’re Moving Saturday And Need To Sell Our Stuff” Sale” over on craigslist LA.
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