Free Culture 'Take Backsies' on Flickr

Ice House ruins in Tyler, Texasphoto by Terry Shuck (crowt59)Creative Commons Attribution 2.0
I can't remember when or how I first found Terry Shuck's work on Flickr, but I immediately became a fan of his photography. It appears that he uses HDR techniques quite a bit, although I can't tell what all magic he summons [...]

At Night, the Robot Slept

Blame it on Luis Villa. He wrote about his Roomba and got me thinking. I had also previously heard good things. Hmm...
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, doing the jobs that I don't want to?
The wife was skeptical at first, but I mentioned the good things I was "hearing," that the prices were coming down, and likewise [...]

A Free Culture Acorn Sprouts

I keep half an eye on references to this site by using feeds from Google News and Blog Search to catch links to here or mentions of the site (or me).

A lot of times the feeds turn up some crummy splog scraping my content. A lot of people get up in arms about this, [...]

Metapost

I'm stealing from the Comics Curmudgeon, although maybe he just stole the concept from someone else in turn. He differentiates his on-topic material (skewering the funny pages) from miscellaneous housekeeping chit-chat by labeling the chit-chat as metaposts. I like it as an early warning that you're not getting the advertised goods. It's [...]