Month July 2005

Euro Software Patents are DEAD! w00t!. Cory Doctorow: You have won the fight to keep software patents — America’s disastrous, failed system for awarding exclusive rights to mathematical instructions — out of Europe. Despite the other side’s nonstop dirty tricks,…

Police scuffle with G8 protesters Police and protesters scuffled in Edinburgh ahead of Wednesday’s G8 summit as officials braced for more demonstrations and the possibility of a terrorist attack. Nice move that, linking demonstrators with terrorism. One clown waved a…

The objective of Operation Yellow Elephant is to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry. They demanded this war and now viciously support it. It’s only right that they also experience it. Liberal blogs are having fun…

US President George Bush is now ready to concede that climate change has scientific basis, and that collective action is required over global warming. Until now, Mr Bush has adopted an intransigent position, insisting there is no scientific basis to…

Podcast downloads from Santa Monica-based KCRW zoomed to 100,000 a day from 3,500 when iTunes began hosting podcasts. I used to volunteer at KCRW, a nominally public radio station which now arguably has more advertisements than some commercial radio stations.…