Dana Blakenhorn was at a convention in Taiwan, and after noticing only one device preinstalled with Linux in the whole show, cracked the Asus / Windows / Linux story wide open with one simple question: “what happened to all the Linux?” “In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They …
Daily Archive: June 19, 2009
Jun 19 2009
Pickles has new nature photos up
My Close Personal Friend(tm) Jason Pickles has just put up a bunch of new nature photos on his space at JPG Magazine from his vacation last week. Go check out the new gallery. I’m sure you’ll find a dozen worth saving, or turning into posters or postcards or coffee cups or t-shirts or tattoos or …
Jun 19 2009
Civility in the public eye
Another of the big net fooforaws going on lately has been whether or not the “New Atheists” are being civil enough in debating against religion, e.g. by suggesting that science does actually contradict religion. Folks like Chris Mooney may be okay with atheists getting all warm and squishy about science and religion coexisting, but not …
Jun 19 2009
The stigma of sex
Ktbug LadyDid (what an adorable pseudonym!) muses on the stigma of sex and on how great it is when ambiguity and coyness can be left by the wayside once in a while. This ambiguity is not unique to the States; it’s pretty common throughout most of mankind, anywhere that there’s a patriarchy that puts a …
Jun 19 2009
“Get the Facts that We Invent”
This just in: Microsoft hires either comedians or Baghdad Bob to run their IE8: Get the facts campaign. They actually have the temerity to list IE8 as the most secure out of the choices of IE, Firefox and Chrome. What, because it greys part of the address bar? And Compatibility! They say they’re the most …
Jun 19 2009
How come I hadn’t heard of Jonathan Coulton before now?
Don’t mind all the crazy World of Warcraft machinima. Well, actually, WoW or not, that was a pretty good video. And the song is great.
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