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Dvorak vs. Creative Commons

In a recent opin­ion piece on PCMag.com, Mr. Dvo­rak shows off his stun­ning lack of com­pre­hen­sion of the ben­e­fits to Cre­ative Com­mons Licens­ing. Will some­one explain to me the ben­e­fits of a trendy sys­tem devel­oped by Pro­fes­sor Lawrence Lessig of Stan­ford? CCL is a sim­ple way for con­tent cre­ators to let every­body know what they’ll […]

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2005 Inaugural Celebration

After doing a bit of house-cleaning1 and try­ing to fix a prob­lem with Ariesna’s com­puter2 when I decided to take a break and read some blogs off my por­tal page. At AWelkin’s page, I ran across this link: 2005 Inau­gural Cel­e­bra­tion. Esti­mated cost of the 2005 Pres­i­den­tial Inau­gu­ra­tion cel­e­bra­tion: $40 mil­lion Amount cur­rently pledged by […]

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Just under half of America apologizes to World

Sorry Every­body

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Did Bush REALLY Win?

Well, I gotta put this here too. I am try­ing to keep my polit­i­cal stuff mostly in the polit­i­cal groups, but you guys should prob­a­bly know that there’s a strong pos­si­bil­ity that the elec­tions were hacked, and that as a result we have Bush. I don’t see this as a con­ser­v­a­tive or lib­eral issue. I […]

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My Fellow Americans

Those of you who reg­u­larly read this blog will not be sur­prised to learn that I feel dis­ap­pointed with Bush win­ning the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. I could spend pages on that topic but won’t as there are oth­ers out there who’ve done it bet­ter than I could. Instead, I have a few other words to say. To […]

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