Free State Initiative [Hat Tip @arsydotorg]: “Our mission is to create one or more Free States somewhere in the world. Our strategy is to seek out a potential partner country or countries which are willing to host a Free State in a scarcely populated region with little or no natural resources.”
This is very interesting. Want to reboot? This could be your chance.
Good morning movie liners. We saw this film again last night, for the umpteenth time, and I knew this would be my line today.
Good luck!
Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.
Washington Post: Gizmodo senior reporter Mat Honan disagrees, arguing that patent trolling is suffocating America’s ability to innovate, particularly in the technology sector. Honan wrote on Tuesday, “These are the tapeworms crawling through the nutrient-rich belly of American innovation, full of bile and [expletive], slowly starving us to death.â€
Sigh.
New York Times: “By that flawed logic, he said, “Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements and the Tea Party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth.â€
“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell into G.O.P. nominees,†he jeered, referring to two losing Tea Party candidates for the Senate in 2010.”
Apparently the fire brand version of John McCain is back in action!
PREACH IT SENATOR MCCAIN!
guardian.co.uk: “Simon Maddox, a UK developer, has removed all his apps from US app stores on both iOS and Android for fear of being sued by Lodsys, a company which has already sued a number of iOS and Android developers which it says infringe its software patent.”
Remember boys and girls, software patents are good for you!
No, wait, it gets worse. Apple is now suing HTC over silly stuff. This is definitely not moving technology and innovation forward. It’s taking us backward.
I feel really bad for the Indies of the software world. They’re just trying to eek out a living and they have to deal with Patent Trolls that don’t actually create anything. Pathetic.
Jim Dovey: “The store was removed because Apple rejected any updates which included it, period. They also rejected any updates which stated that Apple required its removal, or indeed any mention of ‘compliance with App Store guidelines’. It was further rejected for the cardinal sin of allowing users to create a Kobo account within the app. Then it was rejected for providing a link to let users create an account outside the app. Then it was rejected for simply mentioning that it was possible to sign up, with no direction on where or how one could do that. Then it was rejected for making any mention of the Kobo website. Then for any mention of ‘our website’ at all, in any language. We additionally cannot make any assertions that Kobo provides content for sale, however obliquely.”
How annoying. Makes you want to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick. Less pain.
I don’t much care for it, but it is their store, they make the rules. Either take it, or leave it. Enough leave it and they’ll make a change. Vote with your wallet.
The Atlantic: “The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling”
I love this chart, it’s not partisan, just the facts. REAL NUMBERS. Congress should be looking at this raw data for guidance.
Look at the 1980’s. If you loved craft brews, or micro brews, you were hard pressed to find something. Today we have TONS of great beer to choose from.
Brewers like Seattle’s Redhook started at a great time.
Life is good.
CNet News: “Gundotra explained to Scoble that the requirement isn’t about real names or legal names. Instead, “it is about having common names and removing people who spell their names in weird ways, like using upside-down characters, or who are using obviously fake names, like ‘god’ or worse.”
I’m sure a lot of folks will be plenty mad about this but it doesn’t bother me at all. I’m not a fan of pseudonyms.
