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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, designed only [...]

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

I haven’t written here for a while and the trend won’t be picking up for at least another week.
At noon today I head off to Oregon for a week of biking. Hopefully around 350 miles or so. No internet or cell phones or anything connected or electronic. Though maybe my music until the battery dies.
So [...]

Random Acts of Reality has found one of the best blonde jokes ever.

Blueman!!, originally uploaded by spi516.
Tim, Amin, and I went to the Blue Man Group “Tubes” show on Sunday. The show has been playing for quite a while and I had never gotten a chance to see it. We had second row seats. Unfortunately we didn’t get any thing on us even though we had ponchos. [...]

During the drive from Syracuse NY to the Boston area I climed up to the highest point on I-90 between there and somewhere in South Dakota. I wrote down Ocama but that isn’t a town in SD. Anyway that point was approximately 1730 feet in elevation. It was right after the Appalachain trail crossed the [...]

Test from the install-a-thon.
Update: The MTU LUG put on our second install-a-thon of the school year on Saturday. We installed Linux on at least a dozen machines. Ubuntu and Fedora being the most popular. We keep learning more and more about putting on this type of event so hopefully next year the group can execute [...]

Right when I need my computer to just work it doesn’t. The power supply died(after 3 years of 24/7 work) and it took the CPU and motherboard with it. So now I get to wait until early next week before I get a computer that I can use. Definately not the most opportune time with [...]

Paul and I have driven 4947 miles in 11 days. It was a very round about trip from Minneapolis to my home town. I went a few hundred miles less then that since I didn’t go down to Cedar Falls with Paul.
We visited Mt. Rushmore, Glacier National Park, Mt. Rainier, Seattle, the Space Needle, Corvallis [...]