You’ll Just Get Dirty
Via Bad Astronomy, a scientist debates a muslim fundamentalist on whether or not the Earth is round. (”Debate” is probably the wrong word for it, given the futility). This is laugh-out-loud funny (unless perhaps if you believe in it….)
The scientist makes a game try at it, but sometimes debating people like this just proves Heinlein [...]
Why Free Software Usability Sucks
This really, really old article on Why Free Software Usability Tends to Suck (from 2002 but still valid though they start out talking about “free” and immediately confuse that as synonymous with “open source”) has hit Reddit again. And will again, and again, and again I’m sure.
Fortunately the whole “argument” about why software made freely-available [...]
iTunes: Always Allow. Always. Please?
iTunes is one of the applications I’d like to always allow incoming connections. As you can see from this screenshot I thought I’d set things up in the Security preferences properly.
As you can also see from this screenshot every time I re-launch iTunes it asks if I’d like to allow incoming connections:
Is it me? [...]
Welcome to the Tribe
Congratulations to Cory and Alice on the birth of their first daughter, Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.
Fine news indeed.
I Knew It Seemed Familiar
Obviously the world is abuzz with Microsoft’s attempt to purchase Yahoo! for that crazy figure that does not compute. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea, to me it seems like two companies who’s products I don’t use turning into one company who’s products I don’t use.
But I couldn’t shake [...]