The Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill in the US aimed at protecting intellectual property online. As originally proposed the bill would (skip to Something Useful if you know this stuff) /../ allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. [...]

William Deresiewicz wrote yesterday in the new york times that the current generation is generation sell- that they care about nothing more than selling themselves, their product or both. There was a clear hint that this is particularly bad and that a society of agreeable twenty somethings who would never do anything against the status [...]

This is a debate I keep getting into with all sorts of people. No matter how well I try explaining it people simply do not want to believe me they’re thinking about distance all wrong. After last weekend’s trek around a very sunny city where I was forced to keep walking in the blistering noon [...]

The drink/coffee meetings resulting from my post about coming to Palo Alto have started happening. It’s great fun meeting new people and getting a feel for the local community and entrepreneurial scene. Certainly a great place to be for meeting cool people and hackers. Invariably, though, the conversation comes up to a point where they [...]

HackerNews was aflutter today with talk about how you should be a quiet professional, do whatever it takes and don’t even complain, take any and all ill that comes your way like a stoic shaolin monk, show no fear, show no emotion, robotically and efficiently perform any task on your path, go face-first through a [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday somebody shared a cool podcast with me. Well I should say they tried to, thing is, I didn’t have an iStore account. But whatever, I’ll just make one right? Well … no. That particular podcast is only available in the US due to copyright restrictions or something, or maybe it’s just [...]