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Intrepid Is Out! San Fran Drinks Tonight.

by on October 30, 2008 in Ubuntu

I am going to keep this fairly short as today has been a super-hectic day. Well, today Ubuntu 8.10 hit the tubes, and it is a proud moment for everyone in the Ubuntu community. A lot of people have mut a lot of hard work into every facet of the distribution, from writing the upstream [...]

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On Lessig

by on October 30, 2008 in Free Culture

Last night I went along to the launch party for Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Remix: Making Art And Commerce Thrive In The Hybrid Economy. This book is the bridge between Lessig moving from his studies in Free Culture to his work on reform in Congress. It was an excellent evening, and it was great to [...]

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Mint

by on October 30, 2008 in Community, Ubuntu

I just want to spend a few minutes sharing a wonderful story that Stani Michiels emailed me about earlier and which he blogged about here. Stani entered a competition in Holland to design a commemorative coin and produced an absolutely astonishingly beautiful entry, and one with aesthetics, class, metaphor and meaning. This in itself is [...]

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