Writing software that pirates DVDs is legal

This one is funny. It’s legal to write software that pirates DVDs.

War reporting through blogs

Reuters on war reporting through blogs.

The Memory Hole

“The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known.” via RobotWisdom

Open CD project

Several cool Linux programs available on Windows via The Open CD project Celestia looked particularly interesting.

Internet on flights

Insight from a NY Times article on how the Internet can be accessed from flights: the reason you shouldn’t use a laptop on a flight during take-off and landing is not because of electrical interference; it is that the laptop could be a dangerous loose flying object in case of turbulence. Now, that makes more sense.

Free PDF creator

Free PDF creator. Wonder how they manage to make money. More importantly, how did they get permission from Adobe? via andersja