Monthly Archives: June 2004

A com­pany called Affin­ity Engines is claim­ing Google stole the code in Orkut, their social net­work­ing tool. In par­tic­u­lar, they claim engi­neer Orkut Buyukkok­ten brought over source code from them when he joined Google. They’re cit­ing sev­eral soft­ware defects that are … Read More →

The DOJ’s response to a FOIA request to share the their data­base on for­eign lob­by­ists was to deny it because shar­ing would cause their sys­tem to crash. No, really. Appar­ently, their data­base is so frag­ile that merely access­ing it would … Read More →

gap­ingvoid is a weblog by Hugh MacLeod. He’s an adver­tis­ing guy and a cartoonist.

Pre­sented with­out com­ment: Ferry goes bused again: No 7:30.

Now that the Supreme Court has blocked enforce­ment of COPA some peo­ple are mak­ing it seem like it’s a rul­ing in favor of giv­ing porn to chil­dren. Wrong. It’s a vic­tory for free speech and a reminder that as a … Read More →

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