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Remember what I said yesterday about content owners making it harder for people like me to circumvent copy protections and DRM in order to legally copy something for fair use purposes? Okay maybe you didn’t get that far. For those who don’t know, the new blu-ray and hd-dvd’s have stronger copy protection. The minute they…
I hate current copyright law. I’m not a lawyer and I haven’t gone over all of it with a fine-toothed comb, but much of it is dumb and preventing most of us regular people from engaging in activities that are educational, entertaining, and enlightening. What else is there to live for? Many of you know…
My brain is still full and unable to produce truly coherent thought. I am thinking about several issues right now and will try to come up with something more thoughtful later. Here are some links, some related to my thoughts, some random. Also check out my shared items from my reader in the left sidebar.…
It’s funny how these professional trips exhaust me, and yet I come back feeling inspired about my work. The purpose of this trip was to begin my work as a NITLE Technology Fellow. It was great to meet the other fellows, all of whom seem incredibly cool and smart. I was describing some of our…
It was a glorious weekend in which Mr. Geeky and I attempted to bring order to our house. We succeeded on some fronts, but we’re in that “complete chaos” stage before everything gets reorganized again. We purchased a new bed, moving our old bed into the office to create a guest room. We had to…
I was going to comment at Phantom’s on her quite poignant post, but decided what I had to say was too long for the comment box. I have avoided really thinking about what happened at Virginia Tech on Monday. I was so busy on Monday itself in fact that I didn’t even know what had…
It’s been a long week that started off badly, so I’ll leave you all with some interesting (I hope) links. Last night I went to hear one of my old poetry teachers, Yusef Komunyakaa. I also had the pleasure of having dinner with him and some colleagues in the writing program. It was wonderful all…
Jane has the latest Scientiae Carnival up. Some great reading there. Tags: women, science, technology Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Go read some of the slashdot comments about the NY Times article on recruiting more women into CS. Go on. Just read a few. Delve into the depths. And then ask yourself why there aren’t more women in CS–or in tech fields more generally. Tags: women, technology, slashdot, computer science education Please consider donating to…
Trillwing writes one of the best responses I’ve seen yet to the violence at VTech. I think we do need to stand up against violence of all kinds. I think we need to fight for gun control. We need to support each other instead of fighting each other. I can’t help but think about the…
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