A speaker from San Clemente was quoted as saying “We are one of those people that make over $250,000 a year, and I don’t agree that that makes us rich.” The median household income for California is $54,000; for San …
A great guest post at Groklaw by a musician who has published a book, The Indie Band Survival Guide, on how to succeed without copyright. Here’s the best thing: he got the publishing contract by giving the book away as …
The GOP is busy painting Obama as elitist, arrogant, out-of-touch. Glenn Greenwald covers this well. But McCain is the man with $520 shoes and eight homes.
Christopher Hitchens amused me today… “The right wing had no interest in highlighting Obama’s nuanced position in Austin, either, because there was (and is) a conservative interest in painting Obama as a heedless and irresponsible pacifist, with absolutely no experience …
PatentlyO reports that the Patent and trademark Office has ruled that “A general purpose computer is not a particular machine, and thus innovative software processes are unpatentable if they are tied only to a general purpose computer”. But apparently, a …
How do you close a program in Windows? Alt-F4, of course. How do you switch between documents? Ctrl-F6, stupid! Who picked these finger-bending choices? To answer this we must go back, back, back in time, to the earliest days of …
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The Wall Street Journal writes that “Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation“. Finally, the message is reaching the establishment. Latest example: Channel Intelligence is suing everybody (if they’re small) for wishlists in a database. Sheesh. How does the USPTO let this kind …
Wow, you can’t make this kind of stuff up. A UCF student took a wafer at a Catholic Mass, upsetting the clergy who believe that it is the actual Body of Christ and hence must be consumed immediately. An atheist …
Interesting post by Glenn Greenwald on Jane Mayer’s book The Dark Side where he points out that on torture, a reason that Congress has been reluctant to act is that many of its members were themselves compromised. I imagine them …
Independence day is a great time to (re)start a blog on independent thinking, and what better subject than the flag. If you see an American flag outside a house, odds are the owners are Republican. In Britain, the ultra-right National …