Posted on 12/20/2008 by Ben

The RIAA is halting file-sharing lawsuits and instead hopes ISPs will do its dirty work for it. The new tack seems even more nefarious to me. We need collective licensing.

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Posted on 11/24/2008 by Ben

Funny excerpt from Carrie Fisher’s new autobiography.

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Posted on 11/24/2008 by Ben

Nissan’s plan for all-electric roll-out.

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SpeedFit

Posted on 11/13/2008 by Ben

SpeedFit, first men-powered treadmobile!

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The flying car

Posted on 11/12/2008 by Ben

Dune buggy + big fan + parasail = flying car!

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Williams & Pejouhy

Posted on 11/10/2008 by Ben

My brother started a blog about his and his wife’s experiences renovating their new home in Vermont and build a pottery studio.

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Posted on 11/8/2008 by Ben

I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead.

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Posted on 11/6/2008 by Ben

Cool population-adjusted election maps.

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Michael Palin for President

Posted on 11/4/2008 by Ben

Michael Palin for President. Because apparently anyone can run the free world these days, so why not?

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Posted on 10/30/2008 by Ben

Ubuntu 8.10 is out today.

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Posted on 10/27/2008 by Ben

Phoronix gets weird results benchmarking the last four Ubuntu releases.

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Posted on 10/25/2008 by Ben

Time Management for Anarchists: The Comic. Previously.

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Posted on 10/25/2008 by Ben

Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Andy Griffith reprise their TV roles for a funny Obama ad. See also: Hayden Panettiere.

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Posted on 10/25/2008 by Ben

Mark Shuttleworth’s notes on the GNOME Usability Hackfest with some interesting mockups.

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Jamis Buck returns to Vim

Posted on 10/11/2008 by Ben

37signals coder Jamis Buck has a nice post about returning to Vim after a few years of using TextMate. He also developed an extension to the awesome fuzzyfinder.vim script to make it more like TextMate.

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