The last days I have noticed that most of the spam I receive has some made up news as subject. I imagine it is to make people click on the messages.
The point is that one of those messages was titled “Knol, the Wikipedia killer”, or something along those lines. I didn’t click on the message, [...]
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Useful spam and Knol
Linux video editing and YouTube annotations
In my recent trip to Copenhagen, I recorded a small video of the subway (it’s really cool, because it’s completely automatic, it doesn’t have drivers or anything). I wanted to edit the video to remove people that were reflected on the window, so I wondered if I could do that on Linux. I imagined it [...]
Work-related news
Some time ago, Opera announced the Opera Web Standards Curriculum project. It’s a very interesting collection of articles that can be used as “curriculum” to learn about web development. It gets extra geeks points for using a Creative Commons license for the articles themselves. Even the W3C mentioned it :-) I just found some time [...]
Animal activists in jail for… no reason?
21 May 2008. Dawn in Austria. A lot of policemen enter in 23 different premises with guns, battering down doors, harassing the people inside. They take 10 people under arrest. Dangerous terrorists? War criminals? Drug dealers?
Animal activists. There haven’t been any concrete charges yet_, so they are basically prisoners of conscienceconscience. Some of them are [...]
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