Maszman Speaks!

SCO is now bla­tantly defy­ing the GPL by dis­trib­ut­ing GPL’d soft­ware under a more restric­tive license. I just hope MS feels like they’re get­ting their money’s worth.

Accord­ing to Matt Groen­ing, Fox nearly sued itself over a ‘Simp­sons’ par­ody of it’s news ticker.

No, really.

A local Odd­fel­lows hall truly had a skele­ton in the closet. Appar­ently, this wasn’t an uncom­mon 19^th cen­tury prac­tice, as grotesque as it seems.

Con­fes­sions of the World’s Largest Switcher or How Fast Is Vir­ginia Tech’s G5 Supercomputer?

Is the “glider” pat­tern from the Game of Life an appro­pri­ate hacker emblem? I report, you decide.

A study of how much new infor­ma­tion is cre­ated each year was done by UC Berke­ley. Turns out, over 5 mil­lion exabytes in 2002 alone. That’s 5 mil­lion ter­abytes (where a ter­abyte is 1 thou­sand giga­bytes). That’s just one year!

Given the shear vol­ume of data, and the ephemeral nature of so much dig­i­tal stor­age, what will the arche­ol­o­gists of the future be able to learn about us?