News Thieves: Am I Over-Reacting?

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The outright thievery of content is nothing new on the ‘net. Most of us remember the case of TheOatmeal vs FunnyJunk and its particularly humorous conclusion but sometimes the answers aren’t so cut-and dry. The legalities and specifics of various situations are hardly clear but it seems like the ethics should be. It’s also entirely possible [...]

Tesla Charity Gets “Oatmealed”

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Yesterday, while I was hard at work and paying very little attention to the internets, something amazing happened. Matthew Inman of TheOatmeal fame stumbled across a charity that’s trying to buy Nikola Tesla’s old Wardenclyffe laboratory and convert it into a museum. The fact that we have no museums honoring Tesla in the U.S. is [...]

Time for a change

I’ve started blogs before, I’ve got accounts on Twitter, facebook, Google+, Linkedin and I moderate a StackExchange site. These are all excellent sites and I use each for their own special purposes, but I’ve had nowhere to properly voice thoughts more than a paragraph or so – until now. So welcome to my sounding board, [...]