BugLabs: Open Source Gadgets

Look out for BugLabs, a stealthy startup with an audacious aim: to do for consumer electronics what open source, “web 2.0″, XML, APIs and the rest did for the web.
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Today’s QOTD from The Daily Show: Matt Groening (creator of the Simpsons) explains why Fox’ head honchos don’t want them to satirise Fox News like they did with that ticker* a couple of years ago:
The Fox viewer might confuse our cartoon with actual news.
*You remember, the one that said ‘Albert Einstein + Brad Pitt = [...]

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Pandora: Disaster Looms

Update: The webcasters and SoundExchange are now (as in, this evening) negotiating a new deal, giving net radio a reprieve – with congress paying close attention, apparently. Both the minimum per song fees and the minimum per channel fee are off the table.

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Ah, today’s young people…

I’m a bit late with this, but Nick Anthis at The Scientific Activist has an informative post discussing a poll that tried to determine where young people in the U.S. lie on the political spectrum. The actual poll results are lengthy but informative. In what follows, I use ‘they/them’ to refer to the demographic addressed [...]

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I just finished watching the Transformers movie, which was a fun way to spend a few hours, especially when I really should be fixing other people’s code. I used to love the show as a wee lad (I think it was my favourite), but I actually remembered very little. I spent most of the movie [...]

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I did not know that the expression existed, but on a web forum someone called me a ‘diamond geezer’ after I provided some Linux advice. The term seems to mean something along the lines of ‘nice bloke’, and is apparently quite common in parts of England.
Just thought that was slightly interesting.

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