Maszman Speaks!

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The South Avenue park­ing garage is being rebuilt. I’m sur­prised they keep it open con­sid­er­ing the work they’re doing. The con­crete is falling apart in many places, prob­a­bly due to road salt, and the cir­cu­lar ramps on the Broad Street side are being reinforced.

I have an love/hate thing with Boing Boing, but they do occa­sion­ally get my atten­tion. For instance, Cory Doc­torow posted a warn­ing about a pro­gram called Star­Force that some game man­u­fac­tur­ers secretly install as part of their games. It can desta­bi­lize your PC by inter­fer­ing with processes it decides could be used to ille­gally copy the games. Now Star­Force is threat­en­ing to sue Doc­torow for crit­i­ciz­ing the product.

I’m so old I remem­ber when anti-copying mea­sures were on the disks and didn’t install them­selves silently into your system.

Spell with flickr takes your name (or any other word) and “spells” it with Flickr images.

A local man thinks a hov­er­craft could suc­ceed where the ferry failed. It’s smaller, faster and might be cheaper. The biggest obsta­cle he’ll face here is over­com­ing the cyn­i­cism we’ve devel­oped watch­ing the ferry fail twice.

From the We Sorta Knew This But It Sounds Funny When You Say It Out Loud Depart­ment: Pub­lish­ers Say Fact-Checking Is Too Costly. Caveat Lec­tor is the Latin phrase of the day.

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