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Random Links and Ideas

January 2007

• http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/27/0258253 - Scientist Develops Caffeinated Baked Goods

• http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/0321251 - Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters

December 2006

• Can use an answerphone to do monologues for people we can't get heads and bodies for.

September 2006

• http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003546.shtml - Lessig's opinion on GPL3

• http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/448894/focus=448894 - Linux Kernel GPL3 position paper

• http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-27-2006/0004440536&EDATE= - ESR gets job with Freespire

August 2006

• http://www.catb.org/~esr/aim/ - or is poking fun at his 9th grader politics too easy?

• http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2761311745.html (I imagine ESR dressed up as LL Cool J rapping "Don't call it a comeback!")

• http://www.apostate.com/programming/bm-freesoftware.html - Bertrand Meyer - Ethics of Free Software

Just came across these **NSFW**... Pay attention to the URL:

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/vz-bathroom.jpg

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/vz1.jpg

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/vz2.jpg

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/vz_bed_play_042.jpg

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/IA_31.jpg

• esr.ibiblio.org/graphics/anna-benson.jpg

July 2006

• The sunbathers:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/theofpa/167011570/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/theofpa/167011569/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/theofpa/167011568/

• Candidate for a ELER episode? - http://www.samrowe.com/slb/article/76

May 2006

• Interview: Bruce Perens on GPLv3 - http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2934758201.html

March 2006

• Richard Stallman at FOSS Business Conference, Belfast http://www.logicalware.org/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2006/05/05#foss-ireland

February 2006

• http://www.robotwisdom.com/linux/timeline.html

January 2006

• Gervase Markham (mozilla coder): http://www.gerv.net/hacking/why-hacking-for-christ.html

• MS ads on linux sites: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060109MicrosoftToutsWindowsOnLinuxSite.html

• Google video on demand: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6021998.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

• GPL3 draft released this week
• Microsoft WMF bug

before

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/microsoft/stories/1998/raymond120398.htm

• electronic paper (fujitsu)
• kernel preemption, last 2 panes swapped around
• msn earth - apple and google missing from map
• speech bubble overflow. not null terminated?
• Heisenburg uncertainty principle: speed or location
• irc = multiplayer notepad
• the eric conspiracy
• Alan Cox given lifetime achievement award

• Comedian said .org villiage No SOAP. SOAP==XML

• http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39226539,00.htm

• man with the golden gnu
• heroic verse
• Google employing everyone, but not ESR
• Stallman complaining about media attention of Linux trademarking

• http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25718

• Google earth archeological find - http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/17/0036205&from=rss

• Armed US military dolphons
• "license proliferation committee" - weapons proliferation? waiting period for a license?

• http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/1532241&from=rss

• Consultant Convicted For Non-Invasive Site Access - donated money to the site he scanned (directory traversal, lynx) - Shot in the head 5 times? - Found to have committed no crime, but then convicted of lying during the crime discovery process.

• 1: "doom - the movie coming soon? hmpf.." 2: "download, watch on a rainy day, delete it. too bad i deleted the trailer last week" 1: "you had rain last week?" 2: "no, the main movie. i watced the trailer while emacs was sorting mail" (tranlsated from german irc transcript

• A nice joke, would need to add Knuth: http://changelog.complete.org/node/408

• Breathalyzer company source code: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/11/04/2053208&from=rss

• GPL 3.0 - no democracy - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1881088,00.asp

• Peyote drug not bad - http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69477,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

• Yahoo's geek statue - anti-gmail - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1670

• SAP Exec Disparages Open Source As IP Socialism - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=1780

• New character, stares at "camera" too much (like Bruce Perens in revolution OS documentary)

• Linux trademark stops train - http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27726

• OSI, ESR, Halloween and Microsoft - http://www.smallworks.com/archives/00000369.htm

• http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_fines_too_low_Free_Software_Foundation/0,2000061733,39230267,00.htm - MS fines too low