It’s been too long since I had any Christopher Hitchens video love here. Here he is giving a speech based on his book about George Orwell.
October 21, 2002 @ The Commonwealth Club.
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After ignoring it for some time now, I’ve updated quite a few of my free software pages in the last couple of days. A brief overview of the changes.
Web Browsers
Added Safari, because I would be remiss if I didn’t
Instant Messagers
Removed Exodus, because the project appears to be dead
Changed Gaim to Pidgin
RSS Readers
Removed Feed ‘n [...]
Lauren’s post made me research this a little more.
The subject of the videos is one Robert Tilton, a televangelist who was somewhat popular in the 1980s and early 90s before succumbing (surprise!) to scandal. His mannerisms are so odd and pronounced that the task of splicing in the sound of flatulence seems almost easy. [...]
The Flight of the Conchords
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Very likely the last incremental release before the all-important v0.9.0, the VideoLan project has released v0.8.6 of its cross-platform media player, VLC. This is one of those products that highlights what’s good about the open-source world: a really high-quality, useful piece of software that’s available for a buttload of platforms. I personally [...]
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 [...]
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