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Talking Points to Defeat Canadian DMCA
Brendon Wilson has a fantastic write-up concerning the ramifications of Bill C-61, which has been tabled in the Canadian Parliament. This a topic that I hope will be hotly contested and all Canadians are encouraged to write their MPs to present their feelings. Brendon provides a rational fact based argument against the bill, which should [...]
Record Setting Weekend Leads to Record Setting Tuesday
Fresh off my participation in the 72h Podcast record set by KATG this past weekend, I’ll also be doing my part tomorrow for Firefox’s attempt at the Guiness Book entry for most downloads in a 24h period.
Metallica Continues to Show They Don’t Get It
Caveat, I’m a huge fan of Metallica - even after getting booted from Napster by their representatives (ironically I own all their albums). Metallica held a listening party for a few journalists in London but was then taken back when they wrote about what they heard. As a result, management had the reviews yanked from [...]
For Rubix’s 23 is the New 25
Tomas Rokicki is at it again! If you recall, in March I wrote about his latest revelation that all Rubik’s Cube are solvable in 25 moves. Like any good mathematician and computer enthusiast, when in doubt, throw more hardware at the problem. Using the same algorithm as before with a Quad Intel Core 2 and [...]
Well Goosh Damn, a Google Shell
Goosh is a “Google Shell” for your browser written by Stefan Grothkopp and it happens to be fairly nifty. The shell like interface allows once to search Google and Wikipedia, returning information in a text only form sans ads. Goosh that’s cool!
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