Today, we observe Earth Day, demonstrating support for environmental protection. This year has a theme of Planet vs. Plastics, which…I don’t know, seems out of step with the modern environmental movement, but whatever. Interestingly, the first Earth Day in 1970, particularly the … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading Noir & Blanc, the fourth through sixth chapters. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
Today, we observe the The Universal Day of Culture under the Banner of Peace, the prepositional phrase often dropped for convenience, promoting the protection of culture in general, and the Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments (R … | Continue reading
We proudly(?) present a chat log from the afternoon of 2024 April 08, recently disclosed. Hey, I need your help. When the eclipse started, three demons crawled their way out of the basement! Sorry, the demons three, or more like pretentious weirdos three. They probably came throu … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts reading Noir & Blanc with the first three chapters. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
Today marks International Romani Day, a day to celebrate Romani culture and raise awareness of the issues facing Romani people. Given the evidence from language and DNA, the Romani seem to have originated in India, probably among the Doma. They appear to have left India around fi … | Continue reading
This post will probably come out a bit disjointed, because this week brought a few events that I wanted to talk about, at least a bit, and I wanted to get posts out while it still made sense for me to mention them. Since “while they made sense” happens to coincide, I had the not- … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club watches In Unexpected Places. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
When I left off in last week’s Indie Web exploration, I didn’t expect to post, this week. I thought that I had hit a steady state, and could put off progress on Webmentions and whatever lies beyond for me. The week turned out to have a couple of pleasant surprises in store. | Continue reading
You probably already know that today, we “celebrate” April Fool’s Day. By celebrate, I mean that we watch privileged people try to imagine how they would act if they had senses of humor, generally settling on investing time in making someone else’s life more difficult. It feels l … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club finishes reading Airlock Bound. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
When I left off in last week’s Indie Web exploration, I had added h-cards everywhere, mostly confirmed that I could receive Webmentions, attempted to send myself a Webmention, and jumped for some low-hanging optimizations. In the intervening week, I’ve gotten some additional info … | Continue reading
Wait. We have an actual holiday, kinda-sorta, today? Indeed, sit down, because this one will take a bit, but today, we observe the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which I feel like I shouldn’t need to explain, because … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts reading Airlock Bound, from chapter 1 to chapter 5. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
Last time, I started adding Indie Web processes to the blog, meaning that I’ve had the pieces in place for about a week. | Continue reading
Today marks the 153rd anniversary of the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that took control of a lot of the city for more than two months. People didn’t look particularly kindly on them, often complaining that the uprising broke the peace of society. And predictably, com … | Continue reading
As I’ve hinted at once or twice, I’ll occasionally recycle some of the answers I have written on Quora and updating them for my current line of thinking. | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club listens to Cauac Ox. | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
Over the last year or so, I’ve started to groan at the drum-beat of social media posts that feel like such a waste of effort, especially since they all seem to read as if the various users copied-and-pasted them from some original post with some tweaks. In other words, you could … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
While nobody really celebrates it since the Civil War began, for maybe understandable reasons, the early United States once took today off to celebrate its victory in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. And partly to laugh at my old developer diary posts where I’d title them with … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading Poles, a Tamil novel, from It’s Sixteen (பதினாறும் ெபற்று) to That One Number (அந்த ஒரு நம்பர்). To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full Title: Pole … | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
When I finished reading Project: Ballad for the Free Culture Book Club, I realized that the in-story video game Kabang!—featured in the short story Tesseract—could potentially work as a real video game. In the post, I even said this. Tesseract introduces Dante’s Pizza and Games, … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
Today celebrates World Refrigeration Day, which…OK, look, technically this violates my internal and informal rules, because it amounts to a commercial for an industry, in this case established by the World Refrigeration Day Secretariat in Derbyshire, England. However, they think … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club reads another role-playing game supplement. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full Title: Distress Beacon Location: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/278325/Saga- … | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club starts playing through a visual novel, from volumes four Of Stagecraft and Survival to six Of Feats, Culinary and Alchemical. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full … | Continue reading
As discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don’t include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. … | Continue reading
Disclaimer In these posts, we discuss a non-“Free as in Freedom” popular culture franchise property, including occasional references to part of that franchise behind a paywall. My discussion and conclusions carry a Free Culture license, but nothing about the discussion or conclus … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading Life Blood, a novel by Thomas Hoover. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full Title: Life Blood Location: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34318 Rel … | Continue reading
This week, our Free Culture Book Club continues reading Life Blood, a novel by Thomas Hoover. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. Full Title: Life Blood Location: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34318 Rel … | Continue reading
As is probably obvious, I have a soft spot in my heart for material that’s in the public domain, for people to use and adapt for their own purposes. It’s the relative absence of a modern public domain that spurred the Free Culture movement, which adds protections against someone … | Continue reading