Oh, the Pettiness... It Hurtses Us

I think I first learned about the web site Zen Habits when my sister sent me a link to this post: Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content, in which the blog's author, Leo Babauta, places all of his writing from the site and from his ebook Zen To Done into the public [...]

A Silly Post Brought to You by the Letters E and F

My daughter has a set of Sea & Learn Bath Shapes that are very entertaining for her and me and the wife alike. (The wife might not want to admit that. But for me I can say that they engage my brain more than a typical work-related meeting.)

I happened to notice that the [...]

Stephan Kinsella, 'Against Intellectual Property'

For today's lecture, some libertarian thoughts on the problem of intellectual property from Stephan Kinsella.

I'm regularly exposed to libertarian ideas at places like Marginal Revolution and EconLog. I like a lot of the ideas, but I wouldn't describe myself as libertarian.
Kinsella wrote a paper called "Against Intellectual Property." I'm slowly making my way [...]

5 Ways to Save on Your Monthly Software Rental Bill in the Year 2056

Originally published in Free Software Magazine, 9 October 2006. This one made it to the technology front page on digg (and maybe briefly on the "all" front page also) and has received almost 350 diggs to date, resulting in almost 9000 reads at FSM. It seems like I say "quite a thrill" too [...]