Entries from August 2007

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Jonathan Lethem - The Ecstasy of Influence / Promiscuous Materials

Right now I’m working as a courier. That means I spend pretty much all of my time in my car delivering rich people’s mail while listening to music or audio books or the radio. This morning I was listening to ‘Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane’ on WHYY, my local NPR affiliate, and as usual it […]

Monday, August 27th, 2007

More Bullshit Legislation Pending, This Time from Howard Berman (D-CA)

Same shit, different asshole.
Honestly, I don’t even feel compelled to comment on this one because what he wants is just so absurd I don’t think it could actually pass, he hasn’t actually filed any paperwork yet, and TorrentFreak’s write-up says everything that needs to be said.
Quoth the Blog:
“When it comes to legislation, the Internet is, […]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Steven Colbert Destroys Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen is basically in disagreement with every single thing I stand for. He’s apparently opposed to giving the masses the ability to produce art and share opinions, because he claims that hurts those who do the same thing, only with corporate backing. Although I agree with him that journalists should report the full […]

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

The Morality of Intellectual Property

I was reading a Slashdot article about Chinese iPhone knock-offs (I want one) when I noticed a comment about a new type of license called MORALip. It has been created by Adam Dada, an anarcho-capitalist cat freak from Chicago. His blog, Unanimocracy currently serves, not surprisingly, to give Ron Paul a handjob.
The MORALip License is […]

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

TNF Public GSpace Drive

Let’s try something.

Google’s GMail service provides two gigs of space to play with. The GSpace Firefox extension lets you use this space as a type of online storage drive. I’ve created a gmail account so that we can all use it to share files on Google’s bandwidth bill.
To use it:
First, install the GStore into […]