Beets and An Unwavering Band of Light
Yesterday, I asked people to send me free software I’d not heard of. The first suggestion was a program called beets, which bills itself as “the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks.” — sounds good to me. Today, I got an email with a download code for the new Jenny Owen Youngs album, [...]
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Saw this on Saturday, and while I certainly need to see it again, I would describe it as this generation’s UHF. The movie opens with what would have been a Cinco commercial on Awesome Show — a special kind of chair for watching movies, complete with awkward footrests, painful injections and more. All of this [...]
Black out your favicon
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How to transfer your .fm domain to a different registrar
Domains with a .fm extension are fairly difficult to transfer, but don’t let that put you off buying one — I think .fm domains are stylish. There’s a lot of talk right now about SOPA and the people who are supporting it. GoDaddy supported it, and then half-heartedly said they didn’t, and is now saying [...]
For archival purposes
Lima, 8th of April, 2002 To: Señor JUAN ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ General Manager of Microsoft, Perú Dear Sir: First of all, I thank you for your letter of March 25, 2002 in which you state the official position of Microsoft relative to Bill Number 1609, Free Software in Public Administration, which is indubitably inspired by the [...]
Who’s Aurora, anyway?
Welcome to 2012. In the last three weeks I’ve stopped using Chromium and gone back to Firefox, albeit via their Aurora channel. Aurora is a way to get to play with some of the very latest things in Firefox, and is frequently updated. I’m using Aurora because I want to support a browser that’s free [...]
