Category Archives: Laws
Straight As again
Number Theory and Analysis: A Intro to Logic: A Engineering 123: Digital Circuit Design: A
Mirah is Amazing
This performance is absolutely haunting — when she kicks on the distortion it’s like a heart attack. I missed her when she was playing a bunch of MA schools recently, I would love to see her some time.
Search rankings
These are the search rankings for greatestate.com, my wife’s real estate website, on google, for various terms: weston real estate – #22 weston land — #30 (Community profiles page) weston ma #53 weston ma real estate – #62 weston – … Continue reading
Pi Project Notes
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the practice of computing the digits of Pi. The first question is, “Why?”. In the great majority of real-world applications, an approximation of few digits (i.e. 3.14) is close enough — … Continue reading
Cellphone pictures
I figured I would upload a bunch of cellphone pictures and comment on them. Here is our table.. you can see various dumplings and mystery items in front of us. Here is a view across the restaurant, the part in … Continue reading
Books, Toys, Etc for Kids
Things to Learn and Where to Learn Them: English and vocabulary: Television, books Math: Counting, blocks, games Music: Piano Alphabet song Lullabies Christmas carols Kids’ songs Toys: Blanket Teddy bears Ripcord cars Paper airplanes Balsa wood airplanes Handkercheif parachutes Maple … Continue reading
I Hit the Trifecta
Just got my fall term grades: Analog Circuit Design: A Cyberlaw: A Comp Sci (C programming in Unix): A Hopefully I can rock the spring term the same way I did the fall, I’m taking Intro to Logic, Digital Circuit … Continue reading
Summer Magic
It was after sunset, and all light had been extinguised in the clearing, circled by small tents and cabins. Moments before, it had been bustling with activity, but now it was strangely silent and empty, with a few other scattered … Continue reading
Open Courseware Podcast — YEAH BOYEEE — eminem inspired
Download the mp3 of my podcast — this is an empathic argument for open access in education, inspired by eminem’s final battle in “8 mile” where he wins by making the other guy’s argument for him. No apologies to Weird … Continue reading
Lynkfestt
Sorry, here are some random HREFs. Great estate.com is Diana Chaplin (my wife)’s great Weston, MA real estate site. The Room To Dream Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that does bedroom makeovers for sick kids.
What is Cyber Oppression?
Because of my Cyberone class I’ve been thinking a lot about virtual worlds and the ethics and control systems inside those worlds. I am wondering, what would it take to create a totalitarian, oppressive government inside Second Life? Could one … Continue reading
How Free Software Taught Me To Fish
I thought I’d upload this essay I did for a summer expository writing class. I took the class with my stepson Avery, it was a lot of fun. The essay is about how free software saved my life, and the … Continue reading
I am mad busy
Hola amigos, it’s been a while since I rapped at ya. I’ve been really busy with school and work and marriage and step-fatherhood and all the other stuff I do to keep busy. Just last week my company started running … Continue reading
Diebold is Evil
I saw this link to an LA Times story. Stephen Heller, a word processor who stole copies of internal Diebold documents revealing that they had violated California state law and sold uncertified voting machines, is now facing felony charges for … Continue reading
My Thoughts on Google in China
While I certainly understand where all of the protestors are coming from with the current anti-google movement, I’d like to put forth a conflicting opinion. I, for one, actually buy the excuse that it is worth participating in some censorship … Continue reading
China Open to Less Restrictive IP Law
Here’s a link you probably won’t see anywhere else, an article from China Daily (the state-run periodical, the voice of the Chinese Communist Party in English essentially) mentioning John Howkins’ talk at a chinese business summit. He talks about how … Continue reading
Modalities of Control
I have always felt very strongly that technology can serve as a tool of oppression or a tool of liberation. Perhaps when we have made enough progress in our struggle I will change the name of the site to cyberliberation … Continue reading
Virtual Apple 2 abandonwarez
This site has a java/browser-based Apple II emulator and an _incredible_ collection of disk images that you can boot. A little Oregon Trail or Rocky’s Boots or LogoWriter, anyone? It’s interesting because though this site is almost certainly _technically_ in … Continue reading
Recording Industry vs. The People
I noticed a link to this site from Slashdot. Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman, two lawyers in NYC, have created this site to compile information that might help assist people defending themselves against RIAA lawsuits. Slashdot mentioned that they are … Continue reading
Newspaper publishers attack news aggregators
I saw a link to this reuters story on Arstechnica: The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, whose members include dozens of national newspaper trade bodies, said it is exploring ways to “challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without … Continue reading