Entries Tagged as 'Freedom'

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

AIM encryption

I can’t believe I forgot to write about this sooner.
I received some official confirmation the other week that Boston University will intercept and monitor incoming and outgoing AIM messages sent to and from the BU internal network. Supposedly they only do this when they have, as Jim Stone puts it, “just cause”, but these seems […]

Friday, March 30th, 2007

The DMCA Enforcer: Response and Follow-Up

Woah! I didn’t expect such a huge response from that last post at all! Most unexpectedly, it was featured on the wonderful and popular BoingBoing.net. I think the coolest part about that, besides the huge spike in traffic and readers, was that the article was read (and liked!) by geek-legend Cory Doctorow, author of Overclocked […]

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

A Meeting with Jim Stone, DMCA Enforcer

A few days ago I went to check my BU webmail and noticed I had received a letter titled “COPYRIGHT VIOLATION: PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID DISCIPLINARY ACTION”. I didn’t have time to deal with it, closed the window and figured I’d deal with it once spring break was over. When I get back to […]

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Not dead!: A few things

I told myself I wasn’t going to update until I had a completed project up. Sorry to disappoint, but I’m writing this empty handed. I’ve simply been too busy with school to bring you anything decent. There are a few half finished projects in the pipeline, but they’re all going to take a fairly significant […]

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Fuck Creative Commons

I love Creative Commons. For those not yet in the know, Creative Commons is a set of copyleft (as opposed to copyright) licenses for creative works like music, photographs, films, essays and websites. Since they were first published in December 2002, there have been hundreds and hundreds of thousands of works licensed under various CC […]

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Mooninites Invade Boston, CNN!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombscare/index.html
ARGH! LEDS! TERR000rrrrzmomg. Never though you’d see Ignignokt next to a SWAT team on CNN’s frontpage, did you? I bet tonight’s Adult Swim bumps are going to be hilarious.
Also, check out Greg Hum’s fantastic Mooninite Snow-Art on Nickerson Field:

Finally, check out the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters trailer. I’ve heard there’s […]

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Two awesome things

First, Wikileaks. It’s about damn time. Soon, people all around the world will be able to safely expose government/police/corporate secrets and corruption. This is a step towards open government and open society. InternalMemos has been doing something a bit like this for a while, but the Wiki format makes the process a whole lot easier […]