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why facebook is icky

May 15th, 2010
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Facebook is the largest social-networking site on net and in the world (with over 200 million active servers worldwide), and as of late, is garnering some very negative press around privacy concerns and lack of general ethics in how they conduct their business and treat their users. Personally, I don’t used FB, finding it far [...]

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credo: a better world, one phone call at a time

March 7th, 2010
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Some time ago, I became more aware of how my choices as a consumer have a real impact on the world around me, so Chris and I have set out to make some changes. We’ve been making relatively small, painless changes in our daily shopping habits, but yesterday we made a big change. We dumped [...]

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software: free as in speech

January 30th, 2010
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Having been a GNU/Linux user now for over three years, I have come to really appreciate this idea of “free software,” which until just recently I did not realize is not entirely the same thing as “open source” software. Many times it is very close to the same thing, but, fundamentally, there is a difference. [...]

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