Dean Landolt

…from the everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-the-internet dept.

Ol’ Chuck Darwin on the 3O god and the cruelty of nature…
With respect to the theological view of the question: This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically, but I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, […]

The official Hardy Heron release has been out for a few days and I’m finally getting around to upping my systems. But sitting here meditating to the install status bar has got me thinking…
I have quite a few laptops I maintain, and every time I do a fresh Ubuntu install on one of them — […]

Absolutely magnificent.
[via shauninman]

Bill Gates on free software…sorta:
“There’s free software and then there’s open source” he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, “there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with.”
Free Software advocates always seem to ascribe malicious intent Gate’s actions, but based […]

OLPC switching to XP?
Insistence upon using only free, open-source software had hampered the XO’s usability and scared away potential adopters.
Bullshit. The ability to add proprietary software exists. This isn’t about whether it will ship with a few non-free modules like Flash and MP3 support — which I’d be fine with. This is about shipping a […]

Before this whole Expelled thing gains too much momentum, some honest light ought to be shed on the Intelligent Design movement. Their tactics are tawdry, asking real scientists to prove a negative, so there is certainly some bad blood between the two groups.
That said, nobody’s saying there’s no place in any classroom for Intelligent Design…
The […]

I honestly thought Expelled was a parody when I first saw the trailers. Is this the trailer for Stein’s next flick?

Frankly, it’s hard to tell what’s parody these days…
And hell, Ben Stein’s charisma is just what the abstinence movement needs.
[via HnR]

I hadn’t noticed (I avoid ‘em like the plague) — but apparently Starbucks has decided to return to its roots with it’s old topless, spread eagle mermaid logo. Boobies!

The good: the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals cites Wikipedia in an opinion.
The bad: they give a date of last reference (Aug. 16, 2004) but fail to realize they could link strait to the frozen version of the page — a method which would completely sidestep the anyone-could-change-it arguments.
The ugly: they manage to fuck up […]

DMX on the future of democracy…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no […]

Couldn’t be.
Holy shit. In case you were thinking traffic cameras aren’t just a money grab and really do make us safer — here’s your clue.

Interesting take via Slashdot…
You are starting to talk huge political downside if you start directly publicly advocating for the RIAA now (except perhaps in a few Hollywood districts). You have tons of pissed off students and tons of pissed off academic administrators who have let it be known they are very unhappy with the heavy […]

If only I’d been more of a geek and read up on graph theory in high school…

My Prof emailed the class list a little TechCrunch writeup on the Slide controversy — they were caught with their pants down posting fake reviews.
My first reaction to this kind of thing is usually big freakin’ deal. After all, the fact that they got caught at all is proof the system works — that this […]