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Monthly Archives: January 2006
How To Do What You Love
How To Do What You Love The most dangerous liars can be the kids’ own parents. If you take a boring job to give your family a high standard of living, as so many people do, you risk infecting your … Continue reading
Webcaster’s right
The Problem with Webcasting provides a nice overview of the new webcaster’s (copy) right that is being pushed by the U.S. WIPO delegation. There’s a new restriction on content waiting in the wings–a “webcaster’s right” that allows websites to control … Continue reading
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Second Life
I don’t do much gaming these days so maybe Second Life is well known and I just missed it. It certainly is an interesting concept. Instead of paying a service fee, users pay what essentially amounts to a land tax … Continue reading
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Internet Public Works Commission
What do you think about an Internet public works commission? Check out E-Work found here.
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What is your dangerous idea?
What is your dangerous idea? from the Edge. Answers to that question from 120 thinkers. Warning, it is quite long but very interesting.
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Conservative party MPs not immune to lobbying
The Conservative party of Canada has been making a big deal out of accountability during this election campaign. The following quote is from Harper Makes Commitment to Clean Up Government. Stephen Harper said today his first piece of legislation as … Continue reading
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TV News in a Postmodern World
Doc Searls has been writing about markets being a conversation for quite a while now. Despite reading a lot of his stuff, (minus the Cluetrain Manifesto which I have been meaning to buy) I never really understood what he was … Continue reading
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Wikipedia needs your help
The Wikipedia Foundation is having trouble meeting its fundraising goals. Do you use Wikipedia? Then why not give them a little bit of money. It’s easy. A Personal Appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Wikimedia Fundraiser 2005 Q4
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Bash fork() bomb
Today, I stumbled onto the following nasty bit of shell code in SECURITY Limit User Processes over on the Gentoo Wiki. No, I haven’t switched to Gentoo. :(){ :|:& };: Warning, this will cause your shell to create processes as … Continue reading
Comment on hospital funding
Searching for stuff on Technorati is quite interesting. I discovered an article in the Globe and Mail written by a London doctor. He discusses how hospitals are funded in Ontario. The post that led me to the article is called … Continue reading
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