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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]

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

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.

Video as an instrument: Wired article on Nine Inch Nail’s on-stage technology

[via:Digg]

WolfenFlickr 3D - Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup

A Wolfenstein 3D level with Flickr photos from a user account or search query instead of nazi art covering the walls. Explained in detail on the developer’s blog.

[via:waxy]

Google News Archive Adds Many Scanned Newspapers

Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube

[via:slashdot]

MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson was a 1980’s mainframe hacker

[via:Hacker News]

Computer virus reaches the International Space Station (ISS)

[via:F-Secure]

Ubiquity for Firefox: short commands for “instant mashups”

See also: Ubiquity on the Mozilla Wiki, Vimeo link to the video.

[via:Scoble]

www.www.extra-www.org

This is presumably parody aimed at the two sídes of the anti-www/pro-www flamewar.

Pandora can’t make money, may pull the plug

“Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher royalties. SoundExchange offered a potential reprieve from the royalty hikes, but that turned out to be a red herring to sneak DRM onto web radio. In the end, SoundExchange was able to initiate a massive (and retroactive) royalty hike on Internet radio stations, imposing per-user fees for each song.”

Opt out of some tracking done by Google-owned online ad networks

[via:Official Google blog]

Microsoft dev blog: Engineering Windows 7

This may, at some point in the future, provide interesting stuff on the development of Windows 7. The first posts are meta-BS, but I added the blog to my feed reader.

Those interested in operating systems or other software products should take a look at Microsoft’s collection of blogs (there are quite a few). It isn’t only traditional PR nonsense, they have quite a few interesting regular writers.

The suggestion feature of the Google search bar of Firefox 3 has huge potential both as a hilarious time waster and as a generator of industrial grade awkwardness.

Honestly, I was going to google “irritation synonyms”.