In 1984, Richard Stallman founded a social movement known as the free software movement. The free software movement fights for the ability to control our computers as a cooperative community (as opposed to being under the rule of software proprietors … Continue reading
Now that the Democrats have had time to settle in, having won control of both houses of the US Congress, we can assess their recent record and bask in all the successes they’ve made.
The Canadian Broadcast Corporation recently released “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister“, a competition show where five candidates competed to become the crowd favorite. The show is licensed to share. There’s been some buzz about it online (1, 2) and for … Continue reading
Thanks to C. G. Estabrook for his help with this post. Check out News from Neptune and share it with your friends. Critical reading on why Progressives can’t vote for Barack Obama: Uzma Aslam Khan explains how American hegemony proceeds … Continue reading
Nifty Nate informs me that Radio Canada, the francophone side of the CBC, is now streaming in ogg: Première Chaîne (currently pointing at http://ms2.radio-canada.ca:80/PremiereChaine.ogg) Espace musique (currently pointing at http://ms2.radio-canada.ca:80/EspaceMusique.ogg) 48kbps of Free goodness. I’m glad the francophone side finally … Continue reading
Got 20 minutes? Of course you do. Watch “The Story of Stuff” and learn about how we’re killing ourselves and each other with corporate power, government subservience to corporate power, unsustainable development, marketing, and the linchpin that keeps it all … Continue reading
Sen. Clinton (D-NY) and John Edwards (former Democratic Party senator from North Carolina) got what they wanted—Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced today he was dropping his presidential bid. The corporate media mentions Kucinich’s name now chiefly to draw attention to … Continue reading
Background It’s needlessly hard to see a movie on the web because there are no widely-accepted standards for how movies should be encoded as data. Currently popular choices become unpopular later and none of them are well-documented (in a technical … Continue reading
Democracy Now! made a typical error when describing the latest Microsoft antitrust violation fine. Here’s how DN! put it on today’s show: In business news, Microsoft has lost an anti-trust appeal before Europe’s second highest court and has been ordered … Continue reading
More and more people recognize that the Democrats are no opposition party. It’s outrageous. One word, it’s outrageous. And I rarely use that word, because it’s such [hyperbole]. And the Democrats didn’t join, the Democrats led, because — let’s be … Continue reading