Interview with the Moor. Via MaxSpeak comes a link to an excellent interview with Karl Marx conducted sometime in the last month, apparently. Karl has lost none of his vitality, despite having been dead for some time. His analysis is as trenchant as his invective is unrelenting. Who is an “insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of […]

Eolas patent challenged by WWW Consortium. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a briefing document describing their challenge to the web-browser plug-ins and applets patent granted to Eolas Technologies: “The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global standard-setting body for the Web, has presented… [InternetPolicy.net]

Estovers of common. The Secret History of the Magna Carta. This is a fascinating article on the Magna Carta and the lesser known Charter of the Forest, and the early establishment of the rights of commons. [MetaFilter]

How to make your software engineer cranky. There is one thing that I hate more than being micro-managed… and that's being micro-managed by someone who isn't my… [kasia in a nutshell]

got this one from Dave Barry's blog

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Proof that I was at AoIR 4.0!. That's my bald head you see here (the really shiny one!): http://aoir.org/2003/pics/pages/audience10_jpeg.htm. There I am, attentively listening to Prof. Pierre… [Technology, Self, & Community] ——- yup, hiding behind monica…. i should look over the tape and see if i have any more of marcelo

Dylan Thomas' “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do […]

so amongst other things, i've been trying to get CDSware working to replace the eprints.org software on the cddc eprints server, that no one uses, but eprints.org really didn't like working with apache 2, so i had to switch to something. the problem that i have isn't with cdsware, which is nifty by all accounts […]

When Microsoft Attacks. I am stunned. One of my favourite bloggers, Michael from eclecticism, has been fired from his job on the Microsoft campus for this post. Michael was a full-time temp working in the MS print shop. Now he's not. Technically, he… [Eat Your Vegetables]