February 8, 2007
Pipes: Boing Boing depimpifier
My best pipe so far — Boing Boing’s RSS feed, but without Cory and Xeni’s constant self-promotion, and Mark F’s plugs for Make Magazine.
November 2, 2006
Boing Boing: Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel? (July 2005)
Cory Doctorow’s spectacularly pant-pissy and, with hindsight, almost 100% inaccurate flameout about Apple including a TPM module. I wonder if he’s had the tattoo lasered-off yet.
July 4, 2006
The Tao of Mac - The Unswitch Saga: Get The T-Shirt
“I nearly switched to Ubuntu when Mark did…” hee.
June 5, 2006
cory doctorow visits a radio shack
“Is the source code available for this phone? Not that I plan to do anything personally right now with the source, but I’d like to see it. Now, if possible, my good man. Chop chop!”
January 18, 2006
Cory Doctorow Hypocrisy Watch: New Firefox “feature” eases spying on users
Read this Cory rant about a proposed Firefox feature that would allow advertisers to track click throughs in an opt-outable manner, then count the number of undisclosed un-opt-outable click-through mechanisms in use by the horde of advertising links littering the page. I counted five (boingboing.net, clk.atdmt.com, adserver.fmpub.net, c2.edapebaf.com and click.adbrite.com)
November 18, 2005
Boing Boing: iTunes creates a security hole?
*Jawdroppingly* idiotic rant from Cory, trying to draw anti-DRM points from a completely non-DRM-related security flaw in iTunes. Is it my imagination, or is his signal to ranting-clueless-fuckwit ratio dropping of late?