Jiggling the flush handle
2012-02-06 by , tagged as
- RNW Dutch radio service to end on 11 May 2012
- The GNU Education Project — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
- The Thicket at State Legislatures: NCSL Podcast: The Buzz
- Turned on, tuned in: the rise and rise of radio | Television & radio | The Guardian
- Twitter to restrict user content in some countries | Reuters
- Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Culture, Media and Sport Committee publish library inquiry responses
- A license to link? Lowe's has one
- Commentary | Scoble: I'll Go Down With the Ship | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Hackers eavesdrop on FBI, Scotland Yard phone call - FRANCE 24
- Lawsuit: Defendant Breached a Duty Not to Shoot Bottle Rockets Out of His Anus - Lowering the Bar
- The PJ Tatler » Rape Victims: The Latest Collateral Damage of Anonymous’ Hacking Crimes
- Peace, Love and C++ - Mapping the Ubuntu Community
- Andy Boyle » Step One: Setting up your Ubuntu server on Amazon Web Services
- BeagleBoardUbuntu - eLinux.org
- EC2StartersGuide - Community Ubuntu Documentation
- Anonymous pokes fate bear, leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous
- Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
- Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a 'Per Country Basis' | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Phil Bradley's weblog: Creative Commons Search Engine
- The PJ Tatler » A Competitive Primary is Indeed Better for Conservatism
- The PJ Tatler » Breaking: Buckeye State GOP Passes Rule to Block Insurgent Central Committee Candidates
- The PJ Tatler » Topless In Seattle-Watching Porn In Public Library OK
- You Should Find the Anti-Komen Backlash Disgusting, Even If You’re Pro-Choice - By Daniel Foster - The Corner - National Rev...
- Guardian article on “the rise and rise of radio” | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web — Scobleizer
- London Olympics Could Prompt Internet Slowdown | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- mashpodder - podcatching client based on BashPodder - Google Project Hosting
- MPs rattle telcos to help kill extremist material online • The Register
- Online dating may encourage 'shopping' for mate - Technology & Science - CBC News
- Since 2009, Mobile Internet Usage Has Doubled Every Year
- The GNU Education Project — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
- The growth of the mobile Web is on a steady rise. While pundits throw around words like "explosive" and "outrageous" the more precise word is probably "consistent." According to analytics firm StatCounter, users accessing the Web through mobile devices has almost doubled every year since 2009. In its latest report, StatCounter says that global Internet usage through mobile devices rose to 8.5%, nearly doubling the 2011 figure of 4.3%. StatCounter's analytics only include cellphones, excluding tablets from the mix. The global leader in mobile Web use is Nokia at nearly 40% of usage. The firm believes that Nokia's global dominance...
Looking ahead
2012-02-04 by , tagged as
Alternative modalities of distribution are being pondered. With the problems being dished out by Anonymous, having a free and open Internet may yet be imperiled. John C. Dvorak had plenty to say on PCMag.com about the Internet being imperiled. Episodes released on February 6th may address this further.
This has been a strange week...
2012-02-03 by , tagged as
Things Found
- Disgusting: Occupy Charlotte Used Water Supply as Toilet, Possibly for Months | Verum Serum
- Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist - Slashdot
- EFF ready to sue if "innocent customers" can't get Megaupload data back
- Five things you can't do on Twitter in the United States | FP Passport
- France 24 launches connected TV application
- French court protectionism fines Google Maps for succeeding | ITworld
- Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist - Slashdot
- Bottin Cartographes charges French companies for maps. Google Maps offers them free. French court levies 515,000 euro fine against Google.
- Georgia's Anna Watson Is College Football's Strongest Female Cheerleader | ThePostGame
- Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says • The Register
- Lawfare » The Internet “Kill Switch” Debate
- PCWorld Security Slackers Risk Internet Blackout on March 8
- Post-Sovereign Europe? | Hoover Institution
- Researchers boycott publisher; will they embrace instant publishing?
- South Korea Detains Man for a Retweet [VIDEO]
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Comments on Twitter's Country-by-Country Tweet Removal Announcement
- The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You! – pleia2's blog
- Time for OverDrive to sell itself to America’s public libraries? Any foundation angels care to help? | TeleRead: News and vi...
- VHP Collects Vietnam Stories - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- America's first 'WhiteFi' network goes live - News - Linux for Devices
- Amid privacy fears, some still resist Facebook - FRANCE 24
- Andrew Lilico: The FU Treaty significantly changes our relationship with the EU so when's that referendum coming? Conservati...
- Android users more likely to put out • The Register
- Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com
- County unemployment on rise » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Google 'chooses' not to censor Mosley content, MP says • The Register
Flushing
2012-01-30 by , tagged as
Flushing the cache...
- Althouse: Reporter challenges State Department official to explain how the U.S. Constitution gives Jay Leno the right to mak...
- DOJ prosecutor named in the Wikileaks/Twitter case had her work email account signed up for a porn site subscription on.wsj.com/ycMRDw
- NYT: When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It
- Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity In Internet Case - WSJ.com
- Scripting News: Get the tech back in tech
- Thailand welcomes Twitter censorship tool - FRANCE 24
- The Winter SWL Fest 25th Anniversary | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- What Does Twitter’s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Works and Days » What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
- VOA news transmitted via shortwave radioteletype to the ships at sea.
- DOJ prosecutor named in the Wikileaks/Twitter case had her work email account signed up for a porn site subscription on.wsj.com/ycMRDw
- "I have just discovered that maritime shortwave communications station WLO in Mobile, Alabama, has started a 24-hour transmission of news in radioteletype (RTTY) and another digital text mode, SITOR-B. The frequency is 8473 kHz. Much of the transmitted news comes of VOA (presumably taking advantage of the public-domain status of VOA content). The audience is, apparently, vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean service area of WLO."
Lovely little linkdump
2012-01-27 by , tagged as
Snapshot as of tonight:
- A Disrupted Higher-Ed System - Next - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"
- America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cable • The Register
- Beware: Alternative Certification Is Coming - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher Elsevier • The Register
- Copyright Woes - Ricochet.com
- Digital Spies: The Alarming Rise of Electronic Espionage - Popular Mechanics
- DistroWatch.com: Snowlinux
- Ed Driscoll » Steal This Book!
- GhostBSD 2.5 finally here! | GhostBSD
- Google finally admits it wants to OWN YOU • The Register
- MD Gov. O’Malley proposes a tax on blogs? | The Quinton Report
- More Megaupload fallout: FileServe shutters file-sharing service
- Plus is king now: Google shutters more products • The Register
- Scrub SOPA - The Editors - National Review Online
- SOTU: Obama wants government power consolidated under Executive Branch – Glenn Beck
- The Proper Scope of the Copyright and Patent Power by Glenn Reynolds, Robert Merges :: SSRN
- Twitter Blog: Tweets still must flow
- Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis
- U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics | Mercatus
- US state tipped as seventh to allow gay marriage - FRANCE 24
- Ian McFarland CDs now available as a digital download | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- How the craziest f#@!ing "theory of everything" got published and promoted
- After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"
Collected Findings For Mid-Week
2012-01-18 by , tagged as
Further Findings
- Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011 • The Register
- Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” available in BBC audio for free | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- BBCWS to run ads on some websites and radio services
- How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law
- If the Prime Minister were to fall in a national emergency, who would succeed him? Peter Bone MP must have an answer! Tory MPs
- » Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
- Obama’s “Recess” Appointments | Power Line
- Roberta Shaffer New Associate Librarian for Library Se - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Scripting News: Forced upgrades
- Scripting News: The Internet needs us to listen
- SOPA & PIPA: threats to our national interests | The National Business Review
- Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber's dynamic pricing worked - O'Reilly Radar
- Thailand Continues Massive Crackdown of Online Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- That was then, this is now | Power Line
- The HTTPi FAQ
- The Linux Documentation Project
- This Week in Censorship: Iran Further Retreats from the World, Belarus Reigns in E-Commerce, and Turkey Democratizes Site Filtering | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Traditional vs self-publishing: Neither is the perfect solution - O'Reilly Radar
- US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law | TorrentFreak
- ViaSat Promises 12-Mbit/s Satellite Broadband for $50/Mo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Videos of 2011 DCC Now Available Online
- Vint Cerf: Internet Access Not a Human Right | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right' • The Register
- Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Librarian’s Guide to Micropublishing: Get it!
- Why 2012 is starting to look like 1984
- All You Really Need to Know About SOPA - By Daniel Foster - The Corner - National Review Online
- Scripting News: SOPA's other message: decentralize
- World experts urge UN to take up mental health - FRANCE 24
- WTF is... 802.11ac? • reghardware
- Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux' • The Register
- Whitewash on Illegal Appointments Won't Work
- The World’s Most Expensive Car Hauler | The Truth About Cars
- SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages
- SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
- SOPA blackout leads co-sponsors to defect - Jen - Flash Player Installation
- Penguin Further Narrows Library Access, Suspending Availability of Audiobook Titles — The Digital Shift
- Obama Recess Appointments Challenged- Bloomberg
- No 'supranational regulatory body' should govern the Internet, say U.S. officials - FierceGovernmentIT
- India joins war against the virtual world
- How to Get Married - Forbes
- HDNet, AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media, and CAA Establish Joint Venture to Rebrand HDNet as AXS TV – HDNet
- Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest • The Register
- Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen • reghardware
- Data centers to cut LAN cord? • The Register
- A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes • The Register
- Apple Won't Kill the Textbook, But It Might Kill the Handout | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- David Mao New Law Librarian of Congress - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Free: Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Audio | Open Culture
- Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
- Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” available in BBC audio for free | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
And we're back...
2012-01-18 by
"Computer, end blackout protocol..."
Monday Link Dump
2012-01-16 by , tagged as
Things found online since the last link dump:
- Kiwi call for shearing to become Olympic sport - FRANCE 24
- Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - Telegraph
- A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - Telegraph
- A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Army seeks 'perfect' radio, creates boondoggle | McClatchy
- Caliphate by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Caliphate by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: Always Innovating announced a tiny open source, IP set-top box (STB) that runs Android 4.0 on a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor clocked as high as 1.8GHz. The HDMI Dongle plugs directly into a TV's HDMI port, and provides up to 1GB...
- How Not to Argue Against SOPA | MattMaroon.com
- NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan | Southgate Amateur Radio News
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server - News - Linux for Devices
- NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan | Southgate Amateur Radio News
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server News Linux for Devices: Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University. The SMILE Plug micro server runs on a 2GHz Marvell Armada 300 processor, sets up a secure Wi-Fi cloud for up to...
- Re-organizing the Federal Government to Crush Opposition
- One of the few virtues of the federal government has been its inefficiency. With functions spread out across different agencies and duplicated powers and
- R.I.P., Department of Commerce? President Obama Seeks to Consolidate Government Agencies
- The Crime of Leafleting - Charles C. W. Cooke - National Review Online
- Charles C. W. Cooke writes on NRO: In Britain, five Muslim men from the East Midlands city of Derby have been put on trial for the composition and distribution of leaflets. The literature — entitled “The Death Penalty?” — contends that gay sex is a sin that leads its practitioners directly to hell; it also calls for . . .
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Volokh Conspiracy Scoops Drudge, The Atlantic, and Reuters by … Two Years
- Tryphon - Blog - Packages debian/ubuntu for Rivendell 2.1.2
- With the release 2.x, Rivendell packages have been refactored. Discover all changes.
- 20 meters around 14083 is melting down. Whoever ever dreamed plain old ancient Baudot RTTY would become the big DX mode?
- Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles - Atlantic Mobile
- RT F5NQL PJ4C by F6KOP team is on the air. First bands worked 40, 14, 21, 24 CW , SSB, 18 RTTY. Be lucky. Be lucky; || Be afraid.
- 61 Non-Librarian Jobs for LIS Grads
- Adler and Cannon: Another ObamaCare Glitch - WSJ.com
- Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded. | The Smoking Gun
- Ed Driscoll » Well, At Least Until the EPA Bans Electricity
- India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
- NY Senator is in Favor of Censoring the Internet
- PJ Media » SOPA and PROTECT-IP: A Line-By-Line Analysis of the Bills We Must Kill
- SOPA shelved until 'consensus' is found - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
- Thread: Overheard on the Goldman Sachs Elevator (page 1)
- White House weighs in on Internet piracy battle - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
- twitter question of the day: will there b a twitter 2 use the #fitn hashtag 4 years from now? will we have all moved on 2 next big thing?
- Lobby for libraries over literacy timebomb
- What's the matter with third parties?
- Wikipedia to go dark to protest web piracy drafts - FRANCE 24
- Prof. (and Former Judge) Michael McConnell on the OLC Recess Appointments Opinion « The Volokh Conspiracy
- Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult
- Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles - Atlantic Mobile
Almost wrapping up the collection
2012-01-13 by , tagged as
Another Friday, yet more link dumping. Eventually there will be a cull...
- Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle | Reuters
- Obama asks Congress for power to streamline government
- Obama seeks power to merge agencies
- Obama wants export agency, closing of Commerce Department
- The PJ Tatler » Gallup: Conservatives Still the Largest Ideological Bloc
- The PJ Tatler » James O’Keefe Has Changed Forever the Voter ID Debate
- Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA | Tech News and Analysis
- Brown Wants New Anti-Business Agency | CalWatchDog
- Obama asks Congress for power to streamline government
- JAN. 11, 2011 By LAER PEARCE California lost about five and a half companies a week to other states in 2011, as the mass migration to avoid California’s
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: Always Innovating announced a tiny open source, IP set-top box (STB) that runs Android 4.0 on a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor clocked as high as 1.8GHz. The HDMI Dongle plugs directly into a TV's HDMI port, and provides up to 1GB...
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server - News - Linux for Devices
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server News Linux for Devices: Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University. The SMILE Plug micro server runs on a 2GHz Marvell Armada 300 processor, sets up a secure Wi-Fi cloud for up to...
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Volokh Conspiracy Scoops Drudge, The Atlantic, and Reuters by … Two Years
- Tryphon - Blog - Packages debian/ubuntu for Rivendell 2.1.2
- With the release 2.x, Rivendell packages have been refactored. Discover all changes.
- twitter question of the day: will there b a twitter 2 use the #fitn hashtag 4 years from now? will we have all moved on 2 next big thing?
Round Two of Recent Links
2012-01-10 by , tagged as
As found online:
- The PJ Tatler » Issa Schedules Hearing to Look Into Egregious SOPA Bill
- Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings' • The Register
- Don't Let the Economy Pick Your Major For You - Atlantic Mobile
- Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional? (Final Version) by Glenn Reynolds :: SSRN
- U.S. To Twitter: Stop Sleeping With The Enemy - Forbes
- Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings' • The Register