FLOSS in Macedonia
With only 80,000 of a country with a population of 2 million online, M$ has thrown wacks of cash to proliferate its monopoly in countries that are starting to grow their connectivity, Macedonia has a strong FLOSS community that is doing its part to fight the giant from Redmond. Read more here.
Friday Fun
Well it is Friday, and yes it is almost 5am and I’m still up. Wacky Terlacky assignment has just been put to bed, (of course I’m not in bed) so what better time to smack some more pengins. I am currently in the mood to smack Tux around because my system is still […]
Gung Hei Fat Choi
Happy Lunar New Year to all that celebrate the new year today. I saw a piece about the true multiculturalism of Canada, the mix of Chinese and Scottish culture in BC. Learn more about the Chinese New Year, and Gung Haggis Fat Choi (that’s right haggis) here.
Public Education of Computers
Russell McOrmond has taken an interesting perspective on how ridiculous some of the licenses are in the computing industry. He contrasts code to public education, and exposes the analogy between software and education. That is, how there is such a wide discontinuity between what we would find acceptable in education, and in software. […]
Kapor on Business Ethics
Link of the Day: Mitch Kapor on Business Ethics.
Link Of the Day
This UK Honda commercial is soon becoming the most downloaded commercial of all time, ushering in a new age of advertising were ad time is ZERO Dollars!
The impressive part of this is that no computer editing was done, this was a one take shot (it took 606 takes to get it right).
How g33k R u?
Link of the Day: Geekquiz. Read more…
Worldwatch — FLOSS news
Worldwatch is a site reporting the social, economic and political effects that Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), with emphasis on Linux, from around the world.
For those in the indstrualised nations, we do not see the full impact of the power that FLOSS has for people at every level to do more for less, due to […]