I'd like to propose the word "bytesore" to be used as a digital variant of "eyesore."
Possible definitions:
bytesore: A web site, service, or computer program that is unpleasant or ugly or offensive.
bytesore: A displeasing web site or computer program; one that is prominently ugly or unsightly.
Example usage: movingtofreedom.org is a disgusting, wretched bytesore.
Here's a short link [...]

Little Boxes at Night, by Trey Ratcliff
License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike
I love Trey Ratcliff's HDR photography, and I'm grateful that he releases almost all of it with a Creative Commons license. While the non-commercial clause may not be ideal for free culture enthusiasts, I think it's still pretty cool to share so much [...]

Christmas music to bring cheer to the CPUs of Robot Revolutionaries:

Jonathan Coulton, Chiron Beta Prime
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At work I often complain bitterly about how The Man wants us to be a bunch of compliant robots.
In defiance, another robot and I are organizing an Underground Robot Revolution (URB). Resistance is currently taking shape in the form of idle IM conversations and writing "URB" on conference room whiteboards.
Our day will come.
You might think [...]

I'm learning the joys of typography. Up until now I haven't really specified fonts on this web site. I've just let the browser and system defaults run the show. For me, using Ubuntu and Firefox, that meant I was seeing my site and many other web pages with DejaVu Serif. That isn't a [...]

I was looking for Python "sequence generator" code earlier today. By that, I'm thinking of a method to increment an arbitrary string of letters and numbers in an orderly way.
I figured there should be code samples out there to make quick work of it, but it was more challenging to find something than expected. Part [...]

Just so, 126 years later:

U.S. Supreme Court
Atlantic Works v. Brady, 107 U.S. 192 (1883)
Decided March 5, 1883
MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the Court.
It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to [...]