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Offworld, Boing Boing’s new gaming blog

That web design is so retro it makes me want to eat mushrooms.

[via:Waxy]

Presidential Records Act: no private (online) correspondence allowed for US presidents

“For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry [...] But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.”

Imagine: no private conversations for four or eight years.

[via:This Week in Tech]

I’m a PC, I’m a Mac, I’m Linux, I’m BSD

Man, I wanna meet Solaris.

See also: Get a Mac, Tron Guy, Berkeley Software Distribution and asking for FreeBSD help on IRC.

[via:Binero]

Embedding higher quality Youtube videos (”&fmt=18″)

I’ve hardly linked to or saved a Youtube video without adding “&fmt=18” for the last six months, but embedding higher quality videos was a mystery to me.

The trick turns out to be the addition of &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of the url part of the embed code.

Embedded below is footage from the last moments of the sixties.

German politician, former Stasi employee forbids use of wikipedia.de domain

“A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against [...] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service.”

Relying on country specific Tld’s controlled by governments while clowns, shit eaters and torturers like Lutz Heilmann are running loose in parliament is a bad idea.

You Look Nice Today ep. 23 features John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton

Haven’t listened yet, but this is can’t possibly be anything less than distilled awesome.

Japanese embedded Lineo Linux boots in 2.97 seconds

“Warp 2 comprises a bootloader, Linux kernel, and a “hibernation driver” [...] The driver takes a snapshot of RAM when hibernation is launched, saving the contents into flash memory, optionally compressing the data. On start-up, the contents are quickly returned to RAM, so that the system resumes its previous running state.”

[via:IDG.se]

Majority of Finnish 55–64 year olds are for limitations of free speech for the purpose of “taming” the Internet (in Finnish)

Just what we needed: delusional Baby Boomers who blame school shootings on the Internet. The sooner every single one of these purposeless assclowns go sit in the corner and die from heart diseases caused by lifestyle choices, the better off the rest of us are.

This kind of clueless, frightened mental defecation from some old people, concerning everything related to the Internet might actually affect technology law & policies. I get sick thinking of these things.

As far as civil liberties are concerned, I’m sure these cold-war trained, censorship happy idiots wouldn’t mind the idea of being time-machined back to some country behind the iron curtain 30 years ago, if they could take their cars, summer cottages and overweight grand-children with them.

See also: English Google translation of the above article

Idolatrous Socialism from Space: Jesus people prayed for “God’s economy” at statue of bull on Wall Street

October 29 2008 was apparently “The Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies”. WTF:

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”

See also: more photos from the prayer, a video, The Charging Bull statue

[via:Pharyngula]

“Maybe it’s time to move on”, a series of ads for Careerbuilder.com

Estonian domain registrar Estdomains no longer ICANN-accredited

F-Secure’s blog post offers an interesting look at a “the largest registrar used by online criminals“, including a presentation of its owner and even the de-accreditation letter.

2% of Finnish municipal elections votes lost due to bad UI design

“The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes”

The saddest part of the story is that the ignorant fuckers who wanted privatized e-voting (or any e-voting) sold Finland’s Democratic process to Tietoenator, a company to which most sensible persons wouldn’t assign the task of drawing a flash-based Goatse.

TE previoulsy provided the voting system for the Finnish Parliament, a project plagued by delays and instability (link in Finnish).

[via:Slashdot]

Vaasa Central Hospital’s new website includes speech synthesis (In Swedish)

The announcement can be heard in Swedish and Finnish.

The tools used to run the service are created by Phoneticom.

[via:MediUutiset (fi)]

Poladroid - Polaroid camera emulation software for OS X

Shitty Polaroid snapshots, now in ten glorious megapixels. I’m definitely against change for the better.

The Windows version will be available in November.

[via:Veronica Belmont]

Jungledisk acquired by Rackspace, a major managed hosting provider

Jungledisk is a magnificent proprietary multi-platform Amazon S3 based backup solution that almost everyone should be using.