Archive for January 2012
Flushing
2012-01-30 by , tagged as
Flushing the cache...
- Althouse: Reporter challenges State Department official to explain how the U.S. Constitution gives Jay Leno the right to mak...
- DOJ prosecutor named in the Wikileaks/Twitter case had her work email account signed up for a porn site subscription on.wsj.com/ycMRDw
- NYT: When Twitter Blocks Tweets, It
- Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity In Internet Case - WSJ.com
- Scripting News: Get the tech back in tech
- Thailand welcomes Twitter censorship tool - FRANCE 24
- The Winter SWL Fest 25th Anniversary | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- What Does Twitter’s Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Works and Days » What We Do Not Want to Hear Anymore
- VOA news transmitted via shortwave radioteletype to the ships at sea.
- DOJ prosecutor named in the Wikileaks/Twitter case had her work email account signed up for a porn site subscription on.wsj.com/ycMRDw
- "I have just discovered that maritime shortwave communications station WLO in Mobile, Alabama, has started a 24-hour transmission of news in radioteletype (RTTY) and another digital text mode, SITOR-B. The frequency is 8473 kHz. Much of the transmitted news comes of VOA (presumably taking advantage of the public-domain status of VOA content). The audience is, apparently, vessels in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean service area of WLO."
Lovely little linkdump
2012-01-27 by , tagged as
Snapshot as of tonight:
- A Disrupted Higher-Ed System - Next - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"
- America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cable • The Register
- Beware: Alternative Certification Is Coming - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Blog blast births boffin boycott of publisher Elsevier • The Register
- Copyright Woes - Ricochet.com
- Digital Spies: The Alarming Rise of Electronic Espionage - Popular Mechanics
- DistroWatch.com: Snowlinux
- Ed Driscoll » Steal This Book!
- GhostBSD 2.5 finally here! | GhostBSD
- Google finally admits it wants to OWN YOU • The Register
- MD Gov. O’Malley proposes a tax on blogs? | The Quinton Report
- More Megaupload fallout: FileServe shutters file-sharing service
- Plus is king now: Google shutters more products • The Register
- Scrub SOPA - The Editors - National Review Online
- SOTU: Obama wants government power consolidated under Executive Branch – Glenn Beck
- The Proper Scope of the Copyright and Patent Power by Glenn Reynolds, Robert Merges :: SSRN
- Twitter Blog: Tweets still must flow
- Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis
- U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics | Mercatus
- US state tipped as seventh to allow gay marriage - FRANCE 24
- Ian McFarland CDs now available as a digital download | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- How the craziest f#@!ing "theory of everything" got published and promoted
- After terrific year, music biz demands that world adopt "SOPA plus"
Collected Findings For Mid-Week
2012-01-18 by , tagged as
Further Findings
- Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011 • The Register
- Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” available in BBC audio for free | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- BBCWS to run ads on some websites and radio services
- How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law
- If the Prime Minister were to fall in a national emergency, who would succeed him? Peter Bone MP must have an answer! Tory MPs
- » Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
- Obama’s “Recess” Appointments | Power Line
- Roberta Shaffer New Associate Librarian for Library Se - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Scripting News: Forced upgrades
- Scripting News: The Internet needs us to listen
- SOPA & PIPA: threats to our national interests | The National Business Review
- Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber's dynamic pricing worked - O'Reilly Radar
- Thailand Continues Massive Crackdown of Online Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- That was then, this is now | Power Line
- The HTTPi FAQ
- The Linux Documentation Project
- This Week in Censorship: Iran Further Retreats from the World, Belarus Reigns in E-Commerce, and Turkey Democratizes Site Filtering | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Traditional vs self-publishing: Neither is the perfect solution - O'Reilly Radar
- US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law | TorrentFreak
- ViaSat Promises 12-Mbit/s Satellite Broadband for $50/Mo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Videos of 2011 DCC Now Available Online
- Vint Cerf: Internet Access Not a Human Right | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right' • The Register
- Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Librarian’s Guide to Micropublishing: Get it!
- Why 2012 is starting to look like 1984
- All You Really Need to Know About SOPA - By Daniel Foster - The Corner - National Review Online
- Scripting News: SOPA's other message: decentralize
- World experts urge UN to take up mental health - FRANCE 24
- WTF is... 802.11ac? • reghardware
- Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux' • The Register
- Whitewash on Illegal Appointments Won't Work
- The World’s Most Expensive Car Hauler | The Truth About Cars
- SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages
- SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an "abuse of power"
- SOPA blackout leads co-sponsors to defect - Jen - Flash Player Installation
- Penguin Further Narrows Library Access, Suspending Availability of Audiobook Titles — The Digital Shift
- Obama Recess Appointments Challenged- Bloomberg
- No 'supranational regulatory body' should govern the Internet, say U.S. officials - FierceGovernmentIT
- India joins war against the virtual world
- How to Get Married - Forbes
- HDNet, AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media, and CAA Establish Joint Venture to Rebrand HDNet as AXS TV – HDNet
- Google to join Wednesday's anti-SOPA protest • The Register
- Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen • reghardware
- Data centers to cut LAN cord? • The Register
- A preview of SOPA: Web shut down before my eyes • The Register
- Apple Won't Kill the Textbook, But It Might Kill the Handout | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- David Mao New Law Librarian of Congress - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Free: Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Audio | Open Culture
- Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
- Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” available in BBC audio for free | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
And we're back...
2012-01-18 by
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Monday Link Dump
2012-01-16 by , tagged as
Things found online since the last link dump:
- Kiwi call for shearing to become Olympic sport - FRANCE 24
- Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - Telegraph
- A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - Telegraph
- A Desert Called Peace by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Army seeks 'perfect' radio, creates boondoggle | McClatchy
- Caliphate by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- Caliphate by Tom Kratman - WebScription Ebook
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: Always Innovating announced a tiny open source, IP set-top box (STB) that runs Android 4.0 on a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor clocked as high as 1.8GHz. The HDMI Dongle plugs directly into a TV's HDMI port, and provides up to 1GB...
- How Not to Argue Against SOPA | MattMaroon.com
- NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan | Southgate Amateur Radio News
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server - News - Linux for Devices
- NVIS Short Wave technology in Afghanistan | Southgate Amateur Radio News
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server News Linux for Devices: Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University. The SMILE Plug micro server runs on a 2GHz Marvell Armada 300 processor, sets up a secure Wi-Fi cloud for up to...
- Re-organizing the Federal Government to Crush Opposition
- One of the few virtues of the federal government has been its inefficiency. With functions spread out across different agencies and duplicated powers and
- R.I.P., Department of Commerce? President Obama Seeks to Consolidate Government Agencies
- The Crime of Leafleting - Charles C. W. Cooke - National Review Online
- Charles C. W. Cooke writes on NRO: In Britain, five Muslim men from the East Midlands city of Derby have been put on trial for the composition and distribution of leaflets. The literature — entitled “The Death Penalty?” — contends that gay sex is a sin that leads its practitioners directly to hell; it also calls for . . .
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Volokh Conspiracy Scoops Drudge, The Atlantic, and Reuters by … Two Years
- Tryphon - Blog - Packages debian/ubuntu for Rivendell 2.1.2
- With the release 2.x, Rivendell packages have been refactored. Discover all changes.
- 20 meters around 14083 is melting down. Whoever ever dreamed plain old ancient Baudot RTTY would become the big DX mode?
- Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles - Atlantic Mobile
- RT F5NQL PJ4C by F6KOP team is on the air. First bands worked 40, 14, 21, 24 CW , SSB, 18 RTTY. Be lucky. Be lucky; || Be afraid.
- 61 Non-Librarian Jobs for LIS Grads
- Adler and Cannon: Another ObamaCare Glitch - WSJ.com
- Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded. | The Smoking Gun
- Ed Driscoll » Well, At Least Until the EPA Bans Electricity
- India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
- NY Senator is in Favor of Censoring the Internet
- PJ Media » SOPA and PROTECT-IP: A Line-By-Line Analysis of the Bills We Must Kill
- SOPA shelved until 'consensus' is found - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
- Thread: Overheard on the Goldman Sachs Elevator (page 1)
- White House weighs in on Internet piracy battle - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
- twitter question of the day: will there b a twitter 2 use the #fitn hashtag 4 years from now? will we have all moved on 2 next big thing?
- Lobby for libraries over literacy timebomb
- What's the matter with third parties?
- Wikipedia to go dark to protest web piracy drafts - FRANCE 24
- Prof. (and Former Judge) Michael McConnell on the OLC Recess Appointments Opinion « The Volokh Conspiracy
- Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult
- Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles - Atlantic Mobile
Almost wrapping up the collection
2012-01-13 by , tagged as
Another Friday, yet more link dumping. Eventually there will be a cull...
- Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle | Reuters
- Obama asks Congress for power to streamline government
- Obama seeks power to merge agencies
- Obama wants export agency, closing of Commerce Department
- The PJ Tatler » Gallup: Conservatives Still the Largest Ideological Bloc
- The PJ Tatler » James O’Keefe Has Changed Forever the Voter ID Debate
- Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA | Tech News and Analysis
- Brown Wants New Anti-Business Agency | CalWatchDog
- Obama asks Congress for power to streamline government
- JAN. 11, 2011 By LAER PEARCE California lost about five and a half companies a week to other states in 2011, as the mass migration to avoid California’s
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 - News - Linux for Devices
- HDMI dongle IPTV device supports Android 4.0 News Linux for Devices: Always Innovating announced a tiny open source, IP set-top box (STB) that runs Android 4.0 on a Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor clocked as high as 1.8GHz. The HDMI Dongle plugs directly into a TV's HDMI port, and provides up to 1GB...
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server - News - Linux for Devices
- Plug Computer takes on education with Marvell SMILE Plug micro server News Linux for Devices: Marvell announced an education platform combining its Plug Computer, Arch Linux, and software developed in collaboration with Stanford University. The SMILE Plug micro server runs on a 2GHz Marvell Armada 300 processor, sets up a secure Wi-Fi cloud for up to...
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Volokh Conspiracy Scoops Drudge, The Atlantic, and Reuters by … Two Years
- Tryphon - Blog - Packages debian/ubuntu for Rivendell 2.1.2
- With the release 2.x, Rivendell packages have been refactored. Discover all changes.
- twitter question of the day: will there b a twitter 2 use the #fitn hashtag 4 years from now? will we have all moved on 2 next big thing?
Round Two of Recent Links
2012-01-10 by , tagged as
As found online:
- The PJ Tatler » Issa Schedules Hearing to Look Into Egregious SOPA Bill
- Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings' • The Register
- Don't Let the Economy Pick Your Major For You - Atlantic Mobile
- Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional? (Final Version) by Glenn Reynolds :: SSRN
- U.S. To Twitter: Stop Sleeping With The Enemy - Forbes
- Ubuntu Linux shop reveals 'TV for human beings' • The Register
Round One of Recent Links
2012-01-10 by , tagged as
As found online:
- Book-lovers? refuge closes its doors in South Africa - FRANCE 24
- Canonical announcing Ubuntu “concept” device at CES | ExtremeTech
- China’s Parallel Online Universe | The Diplomat
- Colombia to return wrongly-deported US teen - FRANCE 24
- Gender wars: Men, women more different than thought - FRANCE 24
- Obama to unveil strategy for leaner US military - FRANCE 24
- RIAA: Kodak/Apple/RIM patent tangle proves we need Web censorship fast
- OMAP Ubuntu Main - OMAPpedia
- Amazon cloud double fluffs in 2011 • The Register
- Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” available in BBC audio for free | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
- BBCWS to run ads on some websites and radio services
- David Mao New Law Librarian of Congress - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Free: Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Audio | Open Culture
- Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
- How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law
- » Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
- Obama’s “Recess” Appointments | Power Line
- Roberta Shaffer New Associate Librarian for Library Se - News Releases (Library of Congress)
- Scripting News: Forced upgrades
- Scripting News: The Internet needs us to listen
- Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber's dynamic pricing worked - O'Reilly Radar
- Thailand Continues Massive Crackdown of Online Speech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- That was then, this is now | Power Line
- This Week in Censorship: Iran Further Retreats from the World, Belarus Reigns in E-Commerce, and Turkey Democratizes Site Filtering | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Traditional vs self-publishing: Neither is the perfect solution - O'Reilly Radar
- US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law | TorrentFreak
- ViaSat Promises 12-Mbit/s Satellite Broadband for $50/Mo | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Videos of 2011 DCC Now Available Online
- Vint Cerf: Internet Access Not a Human Right | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- Vint Cerf: 'The internet is not a human right' • The Register
- Walt at Random » Blog Archive » The Librarian’s Guide to Micropublishing: Get it!
- Why 2012 is starting to look like 1984
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Legality of Cordray Appointment Under Dodd-Frank
- Twitter: To log or not to log: Is that the question? | the dialog
- Canonical announcing Ubuntu “concept” device at CES | ExtremeTech
- As Twitter continues to thrive as the communications tool of choice amongst activists, dissenters and occupiers worldwide it should be no surprise that the San
- Cops cuff rectal shoplifter • reghardware
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » not just challenged, but actual banned books – a web resource
- Why does our labor force keep shrinking? | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
- Vodkapundit » Your Friday Morning Dose of Doom & Gloom
- Why are reporters protecting Obama on joblessness? | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Recess Appointment Round-Up
- Michael Geist - Help Preserve the Canadian Public Domain: Speak Out on the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations
- librarian.net » Blog Archive » not just challenged, but actual banned books – a web resource
- Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., tpp public domain
- Michael Geist - U.S. Pressures Spain Into SOPA Style Law
- Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., sopa spain
- PolitiFact Ohio | John Kasich says Ohio No. 8 for job creation, No. 1 in the Midwest
- When John Kasich narrowly upset incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland to become Ohio's 69th governor, an issue the Republican pounded on was job creation. Ohio had lost nearly 400,000 jobs during Strickland's tenure, and Kasich played that song again and again as he pinned the losses on Strickland. With Ohio's economy on a modest rebound, the Kasich administration is keeping a close eye on the key economic numbers during his first year in office knowing that how voters perceive Kasich's record on jobs could be a key factor in whether he earns a second term in office. Kasich held an end-of-the-year ...
- SOPA: Google, Facebook and Twitter May Go Offline in Protest | Techland | TIME.com
- Can you imagine a world without Google or Facebook? If plans to protest the potential passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) come to fruition, you won't need to.
Strange Findings
2012-01-04 by , tagged as
Things found online since the last link dump:
- Code Transmissions
- The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
- DebianPureBlends - Debian Wiki
- DTV DX Log
- Automated DX Log, CAN-ON-Grimsby
- Hackerspace Global Grid [shackspace wiki]
- » Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
- OSNews.com RMS Right
- parislemon • Comments Still Off
- » Obama desperately seeks a crisis to take advantage of - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
- Comments Still Off http://mattgemmell.com/2012/01/03/comments-still-off/ Here’s the thing: while some try to paint comments as a form of democracy, that’s bullshit. 99.9% of comments are bile. I’ve...
- Proposed Hacker Satellite System Would Fight Web Censorship | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
- "Hackers in Space" sounds like a bad TV movie, but if the group behind the Hackerspace Global Grid (HGG) reach their goal, it could be a reality by the time we ring in 2034.
- Text Messaging Is in Decline in Some Countries - NYTimes.com
- Perhaps to the chagrin of cellphone carriers, signs point to a continuing decline in text messaging in several parts of the world, including Finland, Hong Kong and Australia. Is the United States next? <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/text-messaging-is-in-decline-in-some-countries/">Read more...</a>
- The Coming War on General Purpose Computation - Boing Boing
- The Rosett Report » Axioms for 2012
- Voxcaster - Gitorious
- A nostalgic Cold War shortwave audio montage | | The SWLing PostThe SWLing Post
- Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 11.12 (DistroWatch.com News)
- I'll Have a Hendrick's Martini, Please, Very Cold, With a Quantum Physics Chaser - Ricochet.com
- Library computers can block porn—but Wicca? ACLU says no
- Proactive committee formed to protect mall jobs » Local News » The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio
- Proposal would keep calendar same every year – USATODAY.com
- The Hidden Dangers of the "Living Wage" | Hoover Institution
- The Long, Long Depression - Matthew Lynn - National Review Online
- The Obesity Mountain - Atlantic Mobile
- The stupidity of SOPA in Scholarly Publishing « Science in the Open
- U.S. consumer in the slow lane | Reuters
- What Do We Really Know About Losing Weight? - Atlantic Mobile
- CC Hits
- Ditching “Documents” | Jonathan Kulp
- Don't Break the Internet - Stanford Law Review
- The Rosett Report » Axioms for 2012
- Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement.
- What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? - Slashdot
- Blocking Twitter, Facebook during riots not such a hot idea - MPs • The Register
- For Second Time in Less Than a Year, New Jersey Library Fights to Stay Open
- Michael Geist - SOPA: All Your Internets Belong to US
- Minimum Wage Is About to Go Up in Eight States - Forbes
- My SOPA piece last month on some of the Canadian implications - All Your Internets Belong to US is.gd/ qnRmsI
- Shear on Social Media Law: Cleveland's Social Media Criminal Law May Affect Terry Stop and Frisks
- The Globe jumps into the SOPA debate w/2 great articles: @omarelakkad is.gd/DUI99I and @ ivortossell is.gd/yaGMiB
- The PJ Tatler » I Have a Dream
- Copyright Office Supports Federalization of Pre-1972 Sound Recordings
- 10 Predictions for 2012 « Annoyed Librarian
- BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship
- SOPA opponents may go nuclear and other 2012 predictions | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
- Will Google, Amazon, And Facebook Black Out The Net? | Fox News
- Blocking Twitter, Facebook during riots not such a hot idea - MPs • The Register
Starting The Year
2012-01-01 by , tagged as
And now we begin 2012. This may be interesting...