I am predominantly vegetable

About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” although such a thing clearly hasn’t happened yet. Now, two years later, [...]

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§2078 · June 20, 2008 · 7 comments · Tags: , , , , , ,


I understand that news companies are attempting to give an unbiased view of the news, even when they clearly aren’t (“We report, You decide” my ass, FNC). But I agree very much with Jon Stewart’s view of the media as feckless and overly corporate—not everything, as he says, should be reported as a Pepsi v. [...]

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§1701 · January 31, 2007 · 1 comment · Tags: , , ,


Another year is drawing to a close, and that means its time for my annual meme, in which I select the top ten albums (in no particular order) that came out in 2006. This year, I’m also going to look at some of the albums I think were particularly disappointing (not merely bad, which is [...]

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§1567 · December 26, 2006 · 3 comments · Tags: , , ,


YouTube is no stranger to the news recently. One of the media darlings of the Web 2.0 wave, it is one of those phenomenons that offered nothing more than infrastructure and an iffy interface, but managed to become a brand-name behemoth because of user content. Now it faces two problems: first, how the hell do [...]

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§1472 · October 22, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: , , , , , , ,