Daily Archives: July 6th, 2007

Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Copying Porn and Pics from Their Computer

Based on a ten-page (!) confession by a former Geek Squad member in which he wrote that Geek Squad agents scour your computer for those porn and personal pictures and videos and copy them onto their thumb drives, Consumerist set up a string operation in which they rigged a computer to record all user activity [...]

“I Found the Son of a Bitch Who Invented ‘Comic Sans’!”

If my post about the “Please don’t use Comic Sans” dialog box got people chatting in the comments, yesterday’s edition of Chris Onstad’s popular webcomic Achewood should really stir the pot:
Hang on guys, I’m putting my steel-toed boots on! Click the comic to see it on its original page at full size.
I love that Lyle [...]

Richard M. Stallman: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks

I attended last night’s presentation at the Mississauga Campus of the University of Toronto featuring Mr. Free Software himself, Richard M. Stallman. The presentation was titled Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks.
Here’s a brief abstract of the presentation, courtesy of Greg Wilson’s blog:

Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and [...]

Hand-Knit iPhone

Well, this beats my hand-drawn iPhone or Jason Kottke’s carboard iPhone: it’s a hand-knit iPhone created by Greg’s (from the blog DaddyTypes.com) mom!