Interesting idea...

if only to raise awareness.

Poor guy

Someone posted a false "everything here is free, come and get it" add on cragslist.

Microsoft wants YOU!

To buy Vista.

Free knowledge

It's good to see that the open course ware model that I first heard about at MIT seems to be growing an ecosystem.

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

Anonymous leaks...

...can be a good thing.

Lots of free music released at SXSW conference

http://hewgill.com/sxsw/

Competent government.

If this is true, it makes me both sad and angry.

TV content showing up online

Not exactly downloadable or a full library but there are actually some valuable "properties" out at http://www.hulu.com/.

The resolution isn't fantastic and you can't fast forward through commercials. But the shows are good, the resolution bearable, and usability very good. It seems that the line has moved.

Book underground

Reminds me of a "stealing is bad karma" sign I once saw at an independent book store.

Rate My Whatever

I've long used http://ratemyprofessors.com/ to avoid bad professors. Cool to see independent tracking on Law Enforcement Officers at http://ratemycop.com/. It might be more polite to call it RateMyLEO instead though.

Where's that firetruck? Where are those terrace tree trimmers?

In one town you can just go look.

Is There Really an IT Labor Shortage?

Apparently not.

The shape of the universe?

We now know that the universe is flat with only a 2% margin of error.

Warrantless

Wiretapping?

MAFIAA

No one has the right to a given business model. Consumers are lazy. If bootleg is more convenient and free then of course bootleg distribution will own market share. Steve Jobs won't do it all for you but at least iTunes has demonstrated it is possible. Fire your lawyers and COMPETE ALREADY YOU DAMN FOOLS! Suing your product consumers is alienating droves of customers.

Oh, and if you do take folks to court, at least be willing to present the evidence in that court.

Glad you made it to the 20th century...

hopefully you'll join us in the 21st soon.

Prison time for...

SPAM!

A national ID card is...

...one way to go.