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Whenever there is a push for increased regulation on industries in the US, we always seem to hold ourselves back due to the threat that we’re biting the hand that feeds us. It’s profoundly troubling to me that we have given ourselves this mindset that Americans’ jobs and livelihoods are merely a byproduct of companies…

Though my very favorite part of new OS X releases is invariably John Siracusa’s review of it on Ars Technica, it’s a bit… esoteric for the average reader and perhaps for most of my friends (few of whom actually read my blog, but I digress), so I have decided to share a few thoughts on…

Most atheists you will encounter will assert their atheism on the basis that after hearing unfalsifiable assertions about God and religion and the sola fide approach believers take in their faith, the truth value of the existence of this so-called god came increasingly into question. That is to say, atheists became atheists after seeing a…

When Twitter announced a few months ago something along the lines of “hey, I know that almost all innovation for new features for Twitter’s user experience have come from third party developers, and we wouldn’t even have our own native Twitter clients if it weren’t for an acquisition of third party clients, but now that…

What I imagine networking to be: “Oh, hey, Arun, this is Michael, from GreenGerms.  How’s it going? I remember last week when we were chatting at the Python meetup about how you were trying to figure out how best to get the schmeggle out of video files that get uploaded to the web.  I met…

Ashton Kuther’s little pissing match with Village Voice really sparked last night. It all started with Village Voice’s cover story which one would expect to be a five-page exposé on Kutcher being flat out wrong and getting oodles of facts flat out wrong.  Basically, they managed to make a five-page story about the fact that…

Hulu’s a tough sell because right now it’s owned by the networks who wield the most control of all over the content that is on Hulu, and even with that seeming power and flexibility they can’t manage to make meaningful deals to get a wide array of content available on Hulu without a huge number…

Back in ’09 I made a Facebook note with a list of things I’d like to get done before I die. Let’s see how I’m doing so far: Things I want to do before I die August 5, 2009 at 11:34 pm Learn to play the piano. -not yet Live in a foreign country for…

I subscribe to The Daily WTF, which is a blog in which programmers come together to share funny/awful experiences with coding related things they’ve encountered. Some of the time it’s talking about hellish job experiences in which management had a really authoritarian attitude mixed with zero technical knowledge, and often times it’s a programmer who…

This will be the first year in awhile that I didn’t get the opportunity to go to a Pride festival due to circumstances beyond my control. Every year, though, Pride celebrations seem to spark a discussion (more from within the gay community than outside of it) of whether having these celebrations is good for our…