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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Chilling Effects is a collaboration between several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. Their website, chillingeffects.org, allows recipients of cease-and-desist notices to submit (tags: copyright dmca takedown censorship privacy web) Stuff » AutoFS and NFS improvements in Leopard The Leopard automounter is

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LART Construction Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …for all you alt.fan.sysadmin people out there…

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Understanding art for geeks #6 Originally uploaded by paulthewineguy I think this is the best one of the set. 🙂 See flickr for more. Hat tip to Chris.

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Microsoft Joining DataPortability.org – ReadWriteWeb Irony… (tags: dataportability Microsoft openstandards) Secular Philosophy via www.geoffarnold.com (tags: philosophy religion atheism) Firefox remote on n770 How to cope with task-switching on remote x-display on the nokia (tags: n800 nokia ssh x11) BELTER Asteroids clone, anyone? (tags: flash games asteroids)

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I tried it in the US, and I just confirmed it works at the Starbucks near the City office – the uneconomic to advertise “short cappuccino” does exist, and does taste better than anything else on Starbucks’ price board. All you have to do, is ask… Cost me £1.85.

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The e-victims.org is the first website dedicated to helping victims of e-incidents. “We have launched with a special e-shopping service. You will find answers to most e-shopping problems, including online auctions. You will also find fact sheets that explain your rights and give you tips on how to complain” (tags: consumer advice Security privacy) Computers

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It’s hard to know where to begin in appalled-ness – that there is a mandated 5% cap on discounts for book sales in France, or that the union is backed by the state… ArsTechnica: Did you hear the one about Amazon? It offered free shipping in France, got sued for it by the French Booksellers’

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Debating copyright reform: time for compulsory licenses? Blanket licenses for music won’t work. Music poll-tax won’t work. Distributors will fade away, promoters may still exist but will get paid by the artist who will take the lion’s share… (tags: copyright music Marketing licensing) Explore Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Need to watch this, to get insight

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A colleague kindly provided me with 4 boxes of Nescafe Dolce Gusto capsules as a thank-you present, having mistaken them for Nespresso ones. I can’t use them – wrong size, wrong shape – so they are going free to a good home. Lungo and Espresso varieties. Leave a comment below if you would like them.

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Maybe it’s time to make some changes to ce site web, vue l’information dans ce video. [In French, but subtitled]

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Adam Leventhal’s Weblog Apple Cripples DTrace for iTunes, No Wonder It’s Such A Hog. (tags: itunes leopard programming DTrace Mac) The Far Side of Tech » Apple Air versus Asus Eee: A Comparison Would I get a MacBook Air? Maybe. I would like something more capable than my Nokia N800, but less expensive than a

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Taken with my new Panasonic wireless remote-controllable catcam.

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