Here’s a short list of good reasons to replace your MSN Messenger or Live Messenger with Pidgin

William Patry has shuttered his blog, The Patry Copyright Blog. The archives are gone too. He tells why in a final post. It's a tragedy, nothing less. No, no one at Google made him do it. He did it for a couple of reasons, both of which resonate with me, and I think they are important to highlight. I must warn you, it's a bit depressing.

"Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site." This week there are suggestions on: carrying profiles on usb pens, handling file saving and countdown timers at shutdown, themes, and file archives.

What good are free and open source licenses, all based on the act of software distribution, when software is no longer distributed but merely performed on the global network stage?

After hearing what Homeland (sounds way to much like the fatherland if you ask me) security said ” We can seize laptops for an indefinite period”, read more here. I began thinking that encrypting my computers was something that i seriously need to do

"In 'The Wealth of Networks,' published in 2006 Yale University Press, Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler describes a new model of economic production that he calls the networked information economy [...] Benkler’s arguments find their roots in the free software movement and the hacker ethic.

Dmitry Galinsky, the original author of emacs-rails mode has decided to fork the project... You can clone it from: git clone http://dima-exe.ru/git/rails-reloaded.git --
* yasnippet: yet another snippet extension for Emacs: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/