A Peculiar Blog

EFF Desinger Hugh D’Andrade was recently asked to create mural-sized political cartoon at a show of experimental drawings and cartoons at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco.

Just in case you thought China was the only country doing stuff like this, they’re not.  The Iranian government is working on a law that’s going to “toughen punishment for harming mental security in society” (translation: give the government more license to kill people that openly disagree with it.) They’re already blocking websites that either have sexual content, anything religious that does not agree with Islamic doctrines, and of course, anything that doesn’t agree with government approved politics.

I’ve been thinking about some changes to the look and function of the blog and tonight I’ve finally gotten around to actually doing some of it.  I removed the big no-google graphic and the dead monitor donate button that were in the sidebar because, honestly, they were taking up a bunch of space and not […]

I recently discovered something that I think is going to turn out to be a really popular plugin.  It’s the CommentLuv WordPress plugin. When enabled, it looks for the most recent post on the RSS feed at the url that the commenter leaves when posting the comment and adds a link to that post at […]

I recently received an email asking about something I said on my unofficial freenet 0.5 download page.  After answering, I decided that it’d be worthwhile to share that answer for anyone else who might have any passing interest in my opinions.  (with the addition of fixing a few typos and a broken sentence or two […]