When it comes to digital goods, I’m hesitant where I throw my money. Value is subjective and situational. I’m not a huge movie buff and I rarely rewatch, so $8.99/monthly for Netflix isn’t bad. On the other hand, I loathe the idea of subscription-based music: if I wanted to listen to it once, I will want [...]

On November 18, 2011, seated members of a nonviolent protest on a University of California, Davis quad were pepper-sprayed at close range by Lt. John Pike.

There's some debate over whether WordPress themes are automatically GPL because of the way they are loaded by, integrate with, and depend on WordPress, which is GPL.

Blizzard today announced an upcoming change to the way users are represented on the official forums: included with each post will be the user’s real name. Obviously, the shitstorm was immediate and intense. (Over 5,000 posts in the four hours after the announcement, not to mention all the other threads the change has spawned. Update: [...]

Wise words.

'Tis of thee.

This is Freudian, somehow.

Wait, I thought sharing was bad?

This is profound.

Unweaving the web.

DRM only exists to hurt consumers.

Guess it’s a "freedom" kind of day. Here are a couple more things for yous guys to read: Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie" documents the increasing trend in corporations to claim the same human rights afforded to living, breathing people. I didn’t know it, but corporations have only been allowed to donate money [...]

I just read Eric S. Raymond’s Why I Am An Anarchist. Here’s a quote: … A majority of the people themselves are too easily seduced into abandoning their own institutional protections against tyranny by the false promises and poisonous dreams of statist propaganda. I’d like to have a little more faith in democracy than Raymond [...]

There’s a new article over at Ars Technica by Johnny Brookheart entitled Put down the mouse, capitalist pigdog! The title’s silly, but his letter is pretty well thought out. Worth the read.

By whom? Anybody that justifies the loss of a few basic freedoms for so called “national security.” Benjamin Franklin said it best: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” LewRockwell.com has an article by Nicholas Monahan, entitled Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your [...]