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5 Apr 2002

Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:49:35 GMT

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes, is an excellent read... if you haven't read it you won't be disappointed.

Neal Stephenson refers to it in many of his fictional works, which are also excellent, but do not contain ground- breaking, controversial theories and research.

20 Feb 2002

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 05:59:42 GMT

Be files against Microsoft - unlike AOL's suit, this one is well-founded

2 Feb 2002

Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:47:07 GMT

the Federation of American Scientists have an excellent site... originally named the Federation of Atomic Scientists, it was founded by members of the Manhattan Project, each of whom came to regret &/or lament their participation

2 Feb 2002

Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:50:31 GMT

Eben Moglen on Enforcing the GPL : Part I and Part II

New Scientist on copyleft's spillover into realms other than software

31 Jan 2002

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:54:07 GMT

trying to run Qt- embedded on an AMD machine with a Jaton Trident 87 AGP 3D graphics card... X- Windows crashes when I resize windows for any app, with every distro and version of GNOME and KDE I've used on it - I think it's due to the graphics card chipset or driver.

PicoGUI looks good, and anygui, too (thanks, tod)

15 Jan 2002

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 04:30:32 GMT

think that the Business Software Alliance recommends freely or openly licensed alternatives?

or just another proprietary software enforcement agency like SPA - fascism to combat the socialist position of free software

BSA stands for Boy Scouts of America, but those folks have no courage or honor

12 Jan 2002

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:47:01 GMT

interesting article regarding Borland licenses

according to Freshmeat their relational database, InterBase, is licensed with the Mozilla Public License - but now Borland has their own very lengthy license detailing commercial use, intellectual property, etc.

intellectual property does NOT exist - there is no such thing, it's a misnomer... even Thomas Jefferson understood that you can't own an idea, and he "owned" people. it's not truly possible to own anything, but at least it's a semi-applicable paradigm when considering physical items. land, I think, will be one of the first major physical goods to go from being "owned" to being a responsibility which if not lived up to can be revoked by ones peers - that is if our current attempt at societal consciousness works... otherwise it's back to the dark ages, and local societies will continue to operate under their own theories of ownership.

13 Dec 2001

Thu, 13 Dec 2001 04:01:00 GMT

Bhagavad-Gita

12 Dec 2001

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:55:18 GMT

dispelling fear

27 Nov 2001

Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:05:30 GMT

observation: current ratings favor software development, rather than free software advocacy, with a bit of our everyone-knows-that-meme culture thrown in for extra bitterness.

I'd like to experiment with more categories/subjects; use trust metrics in conjunction with ontologies. I think I'll make a ZOPE product with pymmetry to add persistence and distributed services over http.