Aughr’s Blog

• Requiem for a legal disaster: a retrospective analysis of SCO v. Novell
  Good riddance.
  (tags: law linux unix copyright novell sco)

• Earlier tonight, I watched The Shield 4×10, a 90 minute episode. It was really intense and fulfilling. Now I’m going to watch episode 4×11 #
• At work #

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• The Road to Clarity - New York Times
  The story of Clearview, the new font for American highways.
  (tags: typography design fonts highway travel nytimes psychology usa)

• Just watched The Shield 4×09. 12 hours to dig up a body in Griffith Park… #

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• Tom’s birthday party #
• Work work work #

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• Ask the Pilot | Salon Technology
  ‘Air Canada is following suit with a nonstop Vancouver-Sydney flight, bypassing its traditional layover in Hawaii, which, in the words of the magazine, “will enable global travelers to avoid the United States.” What have we come to?’
  (tags: travel airplane tsa government)
• Stuck on the enterprise
  John Siracusa: “The people you have to please in the enterprise market are the ones purchasing and supporting the products, not the poor schmucks who actually have to use them.”
  (tags: apple marketing business mac enterprise)
• Jamming the Pearl (Lessig Blog)
  Larry Lessig: “I don’t know what theory would explain the extraordinary stupidity of AT&T in censoring certain anti-Bush Pearl Jam lyrics.”
  (tags: net.neutrality politics at&t)

• An Ape Types in Iowa - New York Times
  Gail Collins: “The central concern here is ape-human communication. The apes seem to be able to understand quite a bit of English, and they talk by pushing symbols on a computer.” Sweet!
  (tags: nytimes op-ed cool)
• ‘To Catch a Predator’: Is NBC’s Primetime Dragnet the New American Witch Hunt? : Rolling Stone
  Great article on a disgusting show.
  (tags: tv children crime internet law usa)
• Matthew Yglesias - Communing
  Great post on foreign policy. “So people who favored the war said they favored it, while others found other issues to worry about for a while.”
  (tags: matthew.yglesias foreign.policy politics dc)
• Matthew Yglesias
  I agree wholeheartedly: “The idea of copyright is not that creators deserve your money, but that you, the citizen, deserve a world in which creators have incentives to create.”
  (tags: congress copyright matthew.yglesias)
• Esquire Magazine’s feature on Dateline NBC’s ‘To Catch a Predator’ - Esquire
  If not for that show, Bill Conradt would still be alive.
  (tags: tv children crime internet law)

• My next flight I want to fly Virgin America #

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• Dell considers bundling virtualization on motherboards
  This would be _really_ cool.
  (tags: virtualization computing linux windows dell ars.technica)
• The Washington Monthly - Smear Watch
  Dan Moldea: “I have it on very, very good authority that major opposition research has already been conducted on Bill Clinton, and it’s going to be a massive smear campaign against him”
  (tags: clinton 2008 election)
• Talking Points Memo | The Demise of the Immigration Bill
  From the archives (my browser tabs): “The real fall-out is that this has dealt a massive and probably enduring blow to Republican efforts to at least compete for, if not win over, the growing hispanic electorate. The model here is then-Gov. Pete Wilson’s
  (tags: politics immigration republicans california)
• Helix :: a Speculative Fiction Quarterly
  Looks cool.
  (tags: scifi magazine fiction to.read)
• Veronica Belmont » Interview: Leeroy Jenkins
  No comment needed.
  (tags: worldofwarcraft interview video funny)

• Eli Sanders | Chris Crocker
  “Escape from Real Bitch Island: NINETEEN AND GAY, TOO EFFEMINATE TO HIDE, AND PERSECUTED BY HATERS IN HIS SMALL TOWN, CHRIS CROCKER TURNED TO THE WEB TO VENT. NOW HE’S A HUGE YOUTUBE CELEBRITY. IS THE INTERNET CHRIS CROCKER’S TICKET OUT?”
  (tags: the.stranger gay)