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Posts from August 2010

Ubuntu the Helpful

There are plenty of things in this world to get choked up about, but this probably isn’t one of them: Nevertheless, I found myself battling tears when Ubuntu made this gracious offer. I still have deep regrets about the many hours of my youth I wasted trying to get Slackware to recognize my soundcard, or [...]


Interview with Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.” As soft-spoken a revolutionary as you’re ever likely to see.


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6 August 2010 @ 3pm

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Fiction & Empathy

Sometimes you hear people say that they don’t read fiction. Not that they don’t usually read fiction, or haven’t read fiction in a while, or don’t enjoy reading fiction. They don’t, as a matter of principle, read it at all. Nonfiction is ok, because nonfiction has facts, and you can use facts to improve yourself. [...]