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This is a copyright infringement lawsuit among pro se litigants. The dispute sideswipes YouTube, but YouTube is able to exit on a motion to dismiss. The plaintiff claims a copyright in a book, Drug Lords of Oakland. The defendants...
Back to the hotel for a short siesta after spending most of the day at Tate Britain, where there is a special exhibition of works by and about James McNeill Whistler. The main collection at Tate Britain is free, but the Whistler...
image by Mike Licht on flickr, CC BY 2.0 Facebook and Xwitter are dying. Their membership is shrinking, their usage is dropping, and satisfaction with them is at an all-time low. Copycat “social media” have arisen, but they lack the huge...
“We are not suggesting this is attainable on the first try, but we think we know how to get there.”There are no new ideas in software engineering, only ones we’ve learned and then forgotten. In 1989, the Zero Defects memo at Microsoft...
From Nilay Patel, a recommendation for the best printer of 2023: Here’s the best printer in 2023: the Brother laser printer that everyone has. Stop thinking about it and just buy one. It will be fine! The Brother whatever-it-is will...
I call upon my fellow RPG bloggers to produce Orpheus themed texts during the time of July 17th to July 24th. During this time I hope to see several posts inspired by the great poet and prophet.Some Post Inspirations:Orpheus and...
This is a response1 to a post by Jerichards titled Where did my creativity go? Their post resonated with me because it is something I ask myself often. Not just where did my creativity go, but what happened for it to go away? Like...
To be read in conjunction with the astrophiz podcast #237https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-ep237-july-sky-guide-ian-musgrave Eastern horizon on the morning of Saturday, July 4 as seen from Adelaide at 5:54 ACST (90 minutes...
My parents allowed me to solo in our small day sailer (a Sunfish) when I was 11 years old. I enjoyed the freedom of the water. My adventures on Lake Michigan went well. There were a few exceptions. One involved a friend of mine, Howard...
I longed to tap dance as a child after becoming enthralled by the movie musicals of the 1930s, 40s and 50s starring great dancers like Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth and many more. It was an urge I couldn’t...
This week I’ve been thinking about career paths, about how to quantify and measure things and social capital. Oh and the humidity has been rising fast. Re-established my gym routine, this time equipped with a new (and cheaper) app for...
The last post about the Nothing Phone not buffering its button presses reminded me of something. Here’s IBM Selectric, a 1961 typewriter: Past decades get compressed into a singular point in time, so we might all think of Selectric as...
The most fundamental question a man asks himself, often. Can he remain alone for his entire life without being destroyed by it? On the surface, that question begs another: why would anyone want to stay alone for life at all? When you're...
After I published my map of defence spending a friend suggested that it would be interesting to see how things had changed since the end of the Cold War in 1990/91. I knew that the data I had covered a longer time period so I asked...
In HOT Updates in Postgres we covered page pruning clean up HOT chains, an elegant shortcut where PostgreSQL reclaims dead tuple space during ordinary reads. All that without waiting for any background process. But pruning is exactly...