Archive for December 2008

The real difference between Wikipedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica

15 December 2008 comments (3)

Only on Wikipedia can you find nearly three years of debate about whether sudo is short for “substitute user do” or “superuser do.”

Hello (again), world!

9 December 2008 comments (2)

Welcome to Texts for Nothing 2.0! I’ve upgraded to a more recent version of WordPress and, I hope, resolved a weird security issue that I may blog about later.

Archived posts are currently unavailable, but they should be restored later this month. In the meantime, here’s some stuff you might be interested in: FreeTheNet.ca, Vancouver Hack Space, Free Geek, free software, information policy, the poetry of Ken Howe, liberty, democracy, and forming the structure of the new society in the shell of the old.