Dictionary redefined: theBigWordProject.com sells words for $1 a letter. You make that word’s definition be a link to your site. Great advertising technique, methinks, but definitely a better way to spend your money than others I have heard of.
Yes, I got myself one :)
Since some people seem to be reaching an older post of mine trying to figure out how to unlock a passcoded iPhone, I thought of sharing a few thoughts on the matter.
Geeks tend to get very opinionated on various issues. That’s the reason why many geeks have blogs or engage in various fora - to express and discuss said opinions. And there may come a time in the life of your average-variety geek when he or she must sit and ponder on a very real and not quite simple-cut issue:
Where is the balance between my job and my morals/beliefs?
People throw around a whole bunch of buzzwords regarding the impending web 3.0. It’s always fun to speculate, isn’t it? In my limited experience of web things1 I came up with my own speculation.
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Considering that recent1 news keep hinting at how the MAFIAA and company want to push responsibility for file sharing onto ISPs, let’s muse over a few possible outcomes.
In the wake and more and more unpleasant things being hosted by WikiLeaks, more and more censorship is attempted and judicial action has ruled that wikileaks.org be removed from DNS. But, thanks to the forethought of the admin, the site already has an extensive list of alternative names. To that list I now add the following redirects:
http://wl.hackd.net
http://wikileaks.hackd.net
The direct address is http://88.80.13.160/
There also exists a comprehensive list of alternate names.
The most recent WikiLeaks content archive is available at The Pirate Bay.
On another note, is there a possibility that the recent fire at PRQ (the hosting company of WikiLeaks and under ownership of Pirate Bay administrators) wasn’t all that accidental?
Information wants to be free, bitches =)
brought to my attention by a very special someone:
Florida Police Officers Dump Man from Wheelchair
Woman Strip-Searched and Jailed Naked over a Misunderstanding
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Taken from somewhere. To say more would implicate people that want not - but not because of this content. I wasn’t there in ‘77 but even ‘97 was about the same (though, I was living on a different continent).
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1977 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up mates.
2007 - Police are called, Armed Response Unit arrives and arrests Johnny and Mark. Mobiles with video of fight confiscated as evidence. They are charged with assault, ASBOs are taken out and both are suspended even though Johnny started it. Diversionary conferences and parent meetings conducted. Video shown on 6 internet sites.
Scenario: Jeffrey won’t sit still in class, disrupts other students.
With all the colours and emoticons that most chat software comes with nowadays, I long, quite often, for the simplicity of text. The strength of ideas coming from text, not pictures and sounds and photo-sharing and let’s-play-together gizmos. No. Just text.
This is probably why I’m so drawn to Jabber and IRC. Sure, you can slap video over XMPP if you want, sound too1, but the basics revolve around text and interoperability. No need to be stuck on one server with just one provider - take your ID and leave, if you want. Talk to people on GTalk, soon enough people on AIM - freedom, as it were. And no useless graphics and themes and crap - beautiful interfaces highlight the content, they don’t try to dress it up and hide its imperfections.
IRC has been around for so long because there are still a lot of people that don’t care for more than just text. And it is precisely because I’m one to say that form is function2 that I praise text so much. Sometimes I think even this blog’s theme is too busy - maybe I’ll look into it.
HPR ran a segment on Project Chanology, give it a listen if the subject is of interest to you. It also got me thinking that, while Anon might be a decentralized group, getting some control over their actions could be a huge asset.
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