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Jon Stewart likes jems which is concealed by the fact that Jon always wears a newscasting outfit. After his first apperance on the Daily Show, John Hodgman was able to use that fact to make a well placed bribe to Jon Stewart to become the resident expert on TDS. That is all.

John Hodgman visited Brookline tonight and explained to the residents of the Boston area how Hoboes are close to taking over the world. Though most of them escaped to outer space after the great depression. At least he had Jonathon Coulton along to sign accompanient and play his theme song, because every self respecting author [...]

I am finally realizing the deficiency of the LCD on my camera to show me how the picture actually turned out. Guess that is a good reason to know even more about how to compose a picture.

Walking down a newly built walking path that goes by an abandoned steam factory on a Saturday afternoon. See a perfect spider web but cannot get the best picture of it. The sun is coming at the wrong angle. The early hint of fall folidge makes for a nice contrast with the water, rusty pipes, [...]

Cory Doctorow has a very interesting article, How Copyright Broke, in the September Locus magazine. I really like this analogy he made: Indeed, until the photocopier came along, it was practically impossible for a member of the audience to infringe copyright in a way that would rise to legal notice. Copyright was like a tank-mine, [...]

I am totally befuddled. Somehow I let xkcd slip under my radar until wil wheaton mentioned it on Monday. Now I have read all of the archives and feel enlightened. Such an amazing comic with some many insane strips. music knowledge, neil gaiman, malaria, digital rights management