Although the US president made the first declaration that “Russia’s reaction is disproportionate”, the western news channels announced that Russia invaded Georgia, no question on “reaction to what”. This question appeared in every rational mind, but not in the news channels’ talkheads. It took about two days of digging, bestcyrano.org, the real news network, democracy [...]

Here’s the formula: Out of boredom or passion, transform some public knowledge into some new useful gadget or some new artistic expression, or get global: get some cheap resource from somewhere, put it in a shiny package and sell it somewhere else (dub it efficiency). Pass quickly through the capitalist crisis of how to make [...]

So you get a Verizon residential DSL connection. Then, when you want to move your blog on a machine in your home, you discover that their terms of service contain this: 4.3 Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial [...]