Everyone's an Expert (Reprint of a 2005 Free Ebook Under Creative Commons License)
Slaw (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week Leslie Ellen Harris correctly pointed out in her Slaw post Using Flickr Photos that we should not assume content available on the web is freely available without copyright. She gave photos on Flickr as the example. One thing I love about Flickr, however, is that it allows us uploading photos to designate Creative Commons [...]
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Filed under: Green Daily , USA The estimated number of miles that all vehicles in the U.S. traveled (the VMT) grew by 2.5 percent in September 2009, the highest year-on-year monthly VMT uptick for 2009. The lowest number was negative 3.1%, recorded in January. Overall, for 2009, the number is up by +0.3% (6.7 billion vehicle miles). These numbers are based on the monthly Traffic Volume Trends report...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Britain's cops have the largest DNA database in the world, and it's full of innocent people who were arrested but not charged, or charged but not convicted (the EU's Court of Human Rights have ordered this practice to stop, but the cops refuse to comply with the law -- their latest dodge is to keep innocents' DNA for six years). Now an inquiry that begins today claims that police are "routinely...
Dave's Lounge (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Download audio file (DavesLounge-20091123.mp3) Lots of artist submissions, free downloads and Creative Commons-licensed music for you this week. I’m perpetually behind on music submissions, but I like to think of that as just having more good music for everyone. You could be listening to this episode on your iPhone with the new Dave’s Lounge iPhone app. [...]
The Wine Cask Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Thanksgiving Wine should be one among the many reasons we give thanks this year. Unfortunately, for too many feasts and revelers, the thanks that goes on happens in spite of the wine. I thought I would give you a sneak peak at what we will be serving this year. The theme is American wine. Since Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, I thought that American wine would be a nice place to start....
The Flying Trilobite (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Anthropometry Close up of left side: Close up of right side: Click each to enlarge. The text on the right hand glove says: "It follows also, that no vain or selfish person can possibly paint, in the noble sense of the word." -from Modern Painters by John Ruskin Vol.5 , E.P. Dutton & Co. (no date on colophon) . "When the pupils can make from the figure rapid pencil sketches showing...
TidBITS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think you're a foodie? Think you're a type snob? Give your self-assessment a test at the new Cheese or Font? Web site, which presents a single word and asks you whether it's the name of a cheese or a font. Be warned that it may make you hungry. Read and post comments about this article | Tweet this article THE MISSING SYNC: Take it with you! The Missing Sync makes it easy to synchronize contacts, calendars,...
TidBITS (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Apologies for the tardy notification, but we're taking a break from assembling and publishing a TidBITS issue in email this week, so our staff can spend more time with their friends and families over the Thanksgiving holiday here in the United States. We'll be back with the next email issue on 30 November 2009. In the interim, drop by the the Web site regularly or subscribe to our RSS feed or follow...
TidBITS (Free subscription) | yesterday
iFixit, the Mac repair and troubleshooting blog, has announced the release of over 200 repair manuals for the iMac and Mac Mini. The manuals, all free for download, cover every iteration of the iMac and Mac mini produced since 2004. The manuals provide detailed disassembly guides, troubleshooting methods, and information regarding upgrades and model identification. iFixit has simultaneously launched...
TidBITS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scott Draves has released the latest official version of the dazzling community-based screensaver Electric Sheep . The update adds two distinct modes for the program's multiple display support, the capability to switch VBL synchronization on or off, more precise information in the download status display, and a more-dynamic remaining-time display. Also, the next sheep to play is now calculated in...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Asia Who's going car free? The 2012 Olympics in London , a town in Germany , and some people on one day a year . A tiny island off the coast of Taiwan has decided to join the car-free club, at least to shed the gas guzzling kind. The tropical island of Liuqiu will spend a lot of money - between $9.3 to $15.5 billion - over the next three years to phase out gas cars and replace...
Funcoder Technology Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am by no means an expert on being effective or doing things efficiently, but I do OK and I get some stuff done. Most importantly, I think, I am attempting at least to be conscious as I do work. Recently I was in Malmo, Sweden presenting at the Øredev conference. I presented this keynote as well as a talk on ASP.NET MVC 2 and also did a few panels, one of which we recorded LIVE and streamed...
Consumption Rebellion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hey everyone! Okay, so I'm determined to find my bojo* by forcing myself to blog. So I went over to one of my favourite sources of blog-writing inspiration, Blog This , and saw that this week's challenge was to blog about my Quick Fix meal. I had a little laugh at this one because quick (and frugal) meals are a speciality in my house. Regular readers will know that my children (ages 6yrs and 5 yrs)...
A DC Birding Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the second site we visited during Saturday's trip to Barnegat Inlet , there was a skate washed up on the beach. The tracks and dropping around the skate indicate that some birds had already discovered the skate's remains. The skate has a bloody patch on its right side, presumably from scavengers picking at it. While some openings on this skate are probably natural (the eyes and mouth need openings),...
Rubber Slippers in Italy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image source: Wikipedia. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 . We all have our weaknesses. Apparently the indulgence of a couple of small but very potent Mai Tais on an empty stomach was not the wisest idea, followed by two Budweisers. What a party last night! The last thing I remember was MotH saying it was time to go home, but in my mind, it sounded like the most absurd...
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