Monthly Archives: January 2005

Sun’s no-op announcement

Posted on 1/31/2005 by Ben

RMS skewers Sun’s patent grant announcement. So what has really happened here? Reading the announcement clearly, I think that it doesn’t announce anything at all. It simply describes, in a different and grandiose way, the previously announced release of the … Continue reading →

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Greatest Hits of 1969

Posted on 1/28/2005 by Ben

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Pixies on Austin City Limits

Posted on 1/28/2005 by Ben

The Pixies will be on Austin City Limits this week. Check your local listings.

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Why Wilco Is the Future of Music

Posted on 1/27/2005 by Ben

Lawrence Lessig has a nice piece in Wired about Jeff Tweedy and Wilco. “Music,” he explained, “is different” from other intellectual property. Not Karl Marx different – this isn’t latent communism. But neither is it just “a piece of plastic … Continue reading →

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Sun Grants Global Open Source Community Access to More than 1,600 Patents

Posted on 1/26/2005 by Ben

Wow, Sun’s arrogance is without limit. They’ve released 1,600 of their patents but only for use with software licensed under their GPL-incompatible CDDL license. This means the patents can’t be used in Linux and lots of other GPL software like … Continue reading →

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Eyes on the Screen

Posted on 1/26/2005 by Ben

Downhill Battle is staging screenings of the copyright-imprisoned civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize. They’re offering BitTorrent downloads of the film. So why has Eyes on the Prize been unavailable for the past 10 years? Copyright restrictions. For example, … Continue reading →

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Questions for the DNC chair

Posted on 1/26/2005 by Ben

MoveOn PAC is soliciting questions for the candidates for chair of the Democratic National Committee and the top rated questions are really fantastic. I think this points to the real problem with the Democratic Party: these average citizens are stating … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 1/26/2005 by Ben

The album of the week is And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead’s Worlds Apart.

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Ta-da lists

Posted on 1/25/2005 by Ben

Ta-da lists are shareable, web-based to do lists. I won’t be using this for my personal task lists but it looks like it could be very handy for informal project planning and group to do lists.

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Beagle demos

Posted on 1/25/2005 by Ben

Nat Friedman has some very cool Flash demos of his Beagle desktop search tool. I especially like the live queries demo which shows documents popping up in the results list as they’re created.

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Ones to Watch

Posted on 1/25/2005 by Ben

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Best of Christian/Gospel Music 2004

Posted on 1/21/2005 by Ben

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Album of the Week

Posted on 1/20/2005 by Ben

The album of the week is the Mountain Goats’ We Shall All Be Healed.

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Microsoft’s Gates Wants Meeting with Brazil’s Lula

Posted on 1/19/2005 by Ben

Bill Gates is trying to get a meeting with the president of Brazil, presumably to lobby against the Brazilian government’s planned migration to Linux and free software. Tired of paying costly licensing fees to companies like Microsoft, Brazil, the world’s … Continue reading →

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Welsh Wonders

Posted on 1/19/2005 by Ben

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