I admire Michael Trapido. I simply can’t sustain that level of aggressiveness without chemical assistance. Last week was an exception, because I was adjusting to going back on Ritalin.
I have access to it because I was (re)diagnosed with ADD as an adult about a year ago. I tend to view such diagnoses with skepticism. I [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
It’s not enough getting morality from religion, philosophy, peer pressure and law. Now business also wants to take the moral high ground.
Random House contractually requires young adult writers to behave. Cory Doctorow points out that they didn’t ask him to sign such a contract for Little Brother. This is probably because they realize just how [...]
I was about to submit the above design to springleap as a copylefted design in the hope that fellow copyfighters would appreciate a cool t-shirt. This was before I read their terms and conditions:
You also assign the entire right, title and interest in and to the copyright to your creation. This cessation includes the right [...]
I got the same feeling as Kevin Kelly while watching the Olympic opening ceremonies.
This is an alien culture. More than two thousand tai-chi masters moved like a single being. All with identical clothes. All with identical haircuts. If this is what their civilians are like… what is their army like?
While watching, I couldn’t stop thinking [...]
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Am I the only one who finds it supremely ironic that Nic’s rant against meta-blogging is supposed to be read by other bloggers?
I think a certain amount of conversation in the community is unavoidable, and even necessary. Blogging is intensely social. It’s a conversation with our audience. Sometimes our audience is other bloggers. So [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
On Monday morning, angry commuters set 20 buses on fire. Their reason? They said they couldn’t get any tickets. This was after Putco said that they could ride for free. Why couldn’t they get tickets? Because when corrupt ticket sellers were suspended, the new ones sent in to replace them were chased away.
The articles said [...]
Everybody knows by now that Hasbro is suing the makers of the Scrabulous, and managed to get them to shut down.
I think Hasbro should buy Scrabulous instead of suing them. It’s an ideal solution - the makers of Scrabulous get rewarded for an innovative bit of programming, Hasbro gets the audience that it wanted in [...]
Apparently not much. iSummit seems a great and noble venture, but it seems to be more disconnected from reality with each passing year.
It completely ignores the aspect of access. It’s being held in Japan this year. In Japan! Can you afford a ticket to Japan? Didn’t think so. You can try to attend the Second [...]
One of the required subjects for a computer science degree at UNISA is CEM101, which is apparently equivalent to the ICDL.
I already know how to sling a keyboard, so I did the CEM101 module through recognition of prior learning (RPL). The handling fee for the RPL process was R 145.00 (payable once only), and [...]
As if our country isn’t ignorant enough already. See PFangirl’s post for details.
