Archive for March, 2003

Google Censorship?

Friday, March 21st, 2003

Why is this category, which used to contain 50 sites, now missing from Google? Spooky.
Update: It looks like the category has been moved here, but if you didn’t know to look for it, you’d never know it was there.

Why “Share Alike”?

Friday, March 21st, 2003

For now anyway, I’m calling this blog “Share Alike”. What’s that supposed to mean? Well, it comes from the common bit of advice, “Share and share alike”. When people say this, they mean two things. The first part of that phrase is an imperative. It, like your kindergarten teacher, is saying: Share. The second [...]

Recalling Sen. Byrd’s Speech

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

A link in the prior entry reminded me of the great quotations Senator Robert Byrd chose when arguing that the Congress was wrong to give up the authority to declare war and to hand over their constitutional duty to the executive branch.
Representative Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to William H. Herndon, stated: “Allow the President [...]

S.O.S. – Please Help!

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

To anyone who reads this message:
Please send help! The U.S. has been overrun by a treacherous dictator. This un-elected “leader” is now waging an undeclared war against another country. The formerly democratic United States of America has been toppled! This tyrant rules with an iron fist. He has imprisoned United States citizens indefinitely without charging [...]

DMCA vs TEACH

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article describing the efforts of educators to resolve whether provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) conflict with the recently passed Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH).
TEACH became law in November 2002 and was intended to “allow college instructors to use nondramatic works, such as news [...]

Impending War

Tuesday, March 18th, 2003

Well, what we all knew was coming now has a definitive time-table. Here’s the kicker: America is no longer a Republic. I don’t know of a time in history when this country has had stronger opposition to something their president was doing and were still powerless to do anything about it. One might argue: “But [...]

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Sunday, March 16th, 2003

I just read Cory Doctorow’s book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom for free online. I have not read a Sci-Fi novel in years, but I burned through this one in two sittings. Now that I’m done I suppose the main reason I would recommend the book is because the world it is premised [...]

Leaflets Dropped on Iraq

Saturday, March 15th, 2003

Check out these images of the leaflets the U.S. is dropping on Iraq right now. They are on a .mil site, so I believe they are authentic.
The ones that catch my eye are the numerous ones urging Iraqis not to blow up oil wells. Generally, I’ve been skeptical of the argument that this is [...]

SuSE 8.2 available April 12th

Saturday, March 15th, 2003

I’ve been happily using SuSE 8.0 on both my desktop and laptop for about a year now. I think I will upgrade to 8.2 merely to support SuSE.
Sometimes I feel like I should give Red Hat a whirl since it is so widely used. I feel like I may be missing things that thousands of [...]

Political Stereotype Quiz

Saturday, March 15th, 2003

This is an entertaining quiz that will tell you what political stereotype you fall in.