Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, former CEO and “founding father” of Creative Commons and former Eff board member stoped by the Colbert Show to talk about his new book on copyright, Remix:Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. A quote from the interview regarding the current copyright climate (the past 10 years or…
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Hello OSSMichigan.org !
Hello to OSSMichigan.org! I’m a new “face” on the planet, and I wanted to start things out by saying thanks to Milosz Tanski for opening the door to me and my ramblings on tech and open source! I’m an open source fan-boy and tech enthusiast, general tinkerer and tech support for all of my computer-illiterate…
NousTweeting!
Just a quick note to say that I have gone and got myself a Twitter account, and added a wee little Twitter feed to my site (over on the right, there), and that there Twitter feed will have not only my Tweets, but will also have new posts from NousEssece, so if you don’t want…
New Site Feature: Gravatar!
Today finds this site Gravatar enabled. What is Gravatar you ask? From the site: “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not…
P90X Round three….take two!
So…My first attempt at doing the P90X Doubles routine…failed. This routine adds a CardioX workout to 3 days of the weeks in phase two, and 4 days of the weeks in phase three. This is adding in 2 hours and 15 minutes of workout a week in phase two, and three additional hours a week…
Flood!
NEAR MISS! So, here in south-eastern Michigan, on December 27th, just 2 days after Christmas, we have a flood-watch in effect. WTF? It is rainy and all of the snow is melting. All of the ice blocks are diminishing and running off in their little streams towards the rivers and drains. While some may rejoice…
What I like and why I like it – sqlitebrowser
Here is the start of a new series on NousEssence: What I like and Why I Like it. It basically works like this: Anything I happen upon that sparks a little light in my eye, or causes a wee spring in me step gets put in here. In time, this will be an additional component…
NIGHTMARE UPGRADE!!!((With a Silver Lining))
I have been unsuccessfully trying upgrade my home desktop computer to the latest Ubuntu release: “Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex” for over 24 hours..here is a record of my epic ordeal… I suppose you can guess how happy I am that I just migrated my websites and services to a separate box…sigh, this all began innocently…
Equality
A paradox of reason. We know, intuitively, that some people are simply better equipped to perform certain tasks in reality. Stephen Hawking has a mental capacity that certainly makes him better at solving physics problems, while someone like Micheal Jordan’s physique has certainly given him a natural head start in the world of sports. If…
Labels
People feel they need to categorize things to understand them, to poses them, to not be controlled by them; and to, in turn, be in control themselves. People feel they want to be categorized so that they might belong to something, to fit into a category is to not be alone. Categorization, the act of…