Glider Pro is now free

A while back I mentioned that Casady & Greene, Mac software publishers, had closed their doors. As a result of this the rights to the software they distributed has reverted back to the software developers. One of the best games they distributed was Glider Pro, a fantastic sim-ish game in which you simply navigate a [...]

Terrorism: “you know it when you see it”

NY Times: Defending Those Who Defend Terrorists

John G. Koeltl, a federal judge in New York, was struggling to understand the theory under which the government was prosecuting a lawyer for supporting terrorism.
Where, he asked at a hearing in June, is the line between constitutionally protected political activity and criminal conduct?
“You know it when [...]

That yawning question solved, finally

Scientists at the State University of New York think they’ve uncovered why yawning is contagious:

Contagious yawning may have helped our ancestors to coordinate times of activity and rest. “It’s important that all group members be ready to do the same thing at the same time,” Baenninger says.

Though that does not answer why I’ve yawned five [...]

Does this mean he’s famous?

A blogging fan of Cory’s has a Cory Doctorow fan blog. I don’t know whether to say “congrats” or “be sure to lock your doors at night”.

Amazon book linking

I woke up bored this morning and decided to integrate Amazon webservices into this blog for fun since I’d never done anything with them before and anything that involves mucking about with XML, HTTP and SOAP is, by it’s very definition, an excellent way to waste some time.
Unfortunately for me the Kalsey Consulting Group has [...]

The nature of Conservativism

UC Berkeley study manages to call Conservatives dumb without actually calling Conservatives dumb:

The researchers said that conservative ideologies, like virtually all belief systems, develop in part because they satisfy some psychological needs, but that “does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational, or unprincipled.”
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“In many cases, including mass [...]

Amazoning for charity

Rory Blyth has created RSS for Charity, an interface for creating customized links to Amazon.com RSS feeds for the product categories of your choice. That’s pretty cool unto itself but what really makes it interesting is that for each item you buy from Amazon that you found through the feed generated by his tool, he’ll [...]

Dan… Dan Quayle… is that you?

<Fluidmist> so, who wants to come to mexico with me?
<technophobe> i would, but i dont speak mexican
<Fluidmist> i thought you spoke spanish.
<techophobe> i do, i dont speak mexican though
<Fluidmist> are you serious?
<technophobe> what? yes
<Fluidmist> who wants to be the one to explain this to him?

QDB

Taps on the Web

A plea to the pubs of the world: if you have a web site please, please list what you have on tap. This is critical in any decision to patronize a pub. Having your menu up is all nice and neat but what I really want to know is: got Creemore? Got Guiness? Got Strongbow? [...]

Computer voting sucks

In Microsoft’s biggest enemy is… I agreed with Scoble that the more information become digital, the more effectively we can deal with it. But some things, some critical systems, should be done the old-fashioned way. Voting is one of those. You’ll never sell me on the idea that a tamper-proof voting system can be created. [...]

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