When Gruber is slamming Apple, you know they messed up…
Random thoughts from a random technology guy
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Welcome to Indiana
I went to Indiana University, though I am not from Indiana. The music school at IU is world class (I, unfortunately, am not). Bloomington Indiana (at least circa 1988) is not a hugely metropolitan area. The university was a bastion of culture in the middle of, well, Indiana.
I recall my first week there, in one of the practice rooms in the music school, reading the graffiti on the wall:
Welcome to Indiana. Please set your watches back 50 years.
Hilarious, and mostly true.
So it is with some shock today that I read this.
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A problem that’s not a problem
I promise, this is my last SOPA link. And the check is in the mail…
But another great quote, this time from Slate.com:
Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.
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SOPA
With Wikipedia dark today in protest, here’s a quote from Tim Bray’s blog today:
In the big picture, the proposed legislation will be ineffective at preventing sleazebags and broke undergrads from watching movies without paying for them, but it will significantly damage the usefulness of the Internet and provide extremely dangerous openings for censorship and for incumbent oligopolists to resist useful disruption. History teaches us that these openings will be exploited to the maximum extent possible, and in the case of this legislation the maximum extent is frightening.
I really don’t have anything to add to that…
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Thoughts for the day
A nice selection of quotes from Seth Godin’s blog. I particularly like:
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Warm Origami
Origami Risk held a company meeting this week in sunny Florida. We’ve hired so many people in so many places that getting everyone together was a big deal. And it was big fun.
We stayed here, which was awesome. We had some great strategy sessions. We did some fishing. For the record the Origami team is much better at RMIS than fishing, but a good time was had by all.
Most importantly, we set the stage for a fantastic year. 2011 was a great year for Origami Risk. 2012 will be an exceptional one.
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My New Religion
Well this is just flat out amusing. I plan to register a new religion in Sweden dedicated to beer drinking. I’m taking suggestions for the name.
Hopticsim? (believers in hops)
Bocktolagerical (fans of bocks and lagers)
Or the strange Jamaican/German hybrid:
Weissetefarians
Yeah, I’m going with that one…
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