Monthly Archives: December 2007
Copyright doesn’t protect your feelings
TechCrunch has a story where copyright law has gotten out of hand. A guy does a parody video using a Billy Joel tune. When I first saw the headline I thought the musician has ordered the take down because the … Continue reading
Detention for Firefox User
Last week I ran across this scanned copy of a detention notice for an unnamed student. According to the letter, the student was caught using “firefox.exe” and was given a detention because “firefox.exe” was not closed when the teacher spotted … Continue reading
Yale Open Courses
Not to be outdone by MIT, Yale has created a set of free online courses. The “Open Yale Courses” are seven introductory courses taught by distinguished professors. The topics are Astronomy, English, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religious Studies. … Continue reading
Flickr Fun
I use Flickr every day. It is one of those sites that has everything. I like to browser through the most interesting pictures, but find the 10-at-a-time interface too time consuming. FlickrLeech is a site that will show all 500 pictures … Continue reading
Picasa on the iPod Touch
I was playing around with my Picasa account on the iPod Touch and suddenly everything looked different. I thought I had adjusted the browser somehow to make Picasa look better on the Touch. As it turned out, Google did an upgrade to the site and … Continue reading