Archive for July, 2007

Cutting the truth finely

Once again, Boing Boing (do I read anything else on the internet anymore?) provokes a response. They are opposing the raiding of marijuana dispensaries in California by the Federal Government. The quote that gets me going is "another example of how states rights only matter to politicians when it furthers their ideological agendas." It seems as [...]

The future is happening now

Looks like the Sony Reader will fully support Adobe DRM'ed PDFs soon. This is what I call big news. Why? Because libraries like the NYPL provide access online to a pretty good list of DRM'ed ebooks. A few years ago, I wrote about how great it would be if you could borrow ebooks just like you borrow [...]

Well that’s a new one

Seems CompUSA sold a guy an empty box, and then wouldn't give him his money back. That's like caveate emptor on steriods (as always, via BoingBoing.)