Monthly Archives: December 2004

Kennesaw, GA

“Civil War Memorabilia and Herb Shop”

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Google Holiday Logos

An archive of the Google Holiday logos and a note from the Google logo guy, Dennis Hwang. Merry Christmas!

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The Martha Stewart Award

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The light people

The sights of Pelzer, SC

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NYT Firefox Ad Today!

I contributed to the ad. It’s probably the only time my name will appear in print with Jonathan Schwartz, Brian Behlendorf, Cory Doctorow, and other high profile techies. It is amazing to me that a volunteer community like the Mozilla … Continue reading

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P2P in 15 lines of code

Via Boing Boing, TinyP2P. TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, … Continue reading

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Hack the Sprint Treo 650 for the Verizon network

Reason #61950 to love the Internet, stickin it to da man. Some guy that goes by “mines” gets the Sprint Treo 650 to work on the Verizon network through a complicated cable hack and other inspired ideas. (Via hack a … Continue reading

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Update on the Firefox ad in the NYT

Expecting that Firefox ad today? According to this c|net article, it maybe later in the year. Mozilla, which on Sunday marked its 10 millionth Firefox 1.0 download, has opted for a cheaper rate at the Times by giving the paper … Continue reading

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Software’s Top Twenty

Vote away! The nice thing about the article is that it’s not just a list of 40 software greats, it has a biography for each one. One other note, if SYS-CON is going to (rightly) include Bill Joy, Tim O’Reilly, … Continue reading

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BitTorrent press

The AP reports on the popularity of BitTorrent. While the article implies that BitTorrent is causing Hollywood problems, this is a bit deceptive. Because, as the article also indicates, that it’s not possible to spoof a BitTorrent download. So illegal … Continue reading

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