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Month: February, 2010

mark bittman on food

Yet another post on my series on Food. This time it’s a video by Mark Bittman who talks about our food system, what we’ve lost and what we should be doing. (I love his focus on real food – not most of the imitation food we have today.)

Original Post. Licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND.
(Thanks [...]

reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific

The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.)
There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be at the event near San Francisco.
The event will also be broadcast live with open video, [...]

want to work at mozilla? have awesome tech writing and community development skills? we have the job for you

We’ve got an opening at Mozilla to work on the team that does both web developer and mozilla developer documentation. We’re looking for someone awesome, who groks HTML, CSS JavaScript, C, C++, loves working with people and is a great writer to boot.
Basically we’re looking for a word Ninja.
If you fit the bill, feel [...]

some additional information about theora and patents

There was a recent post on LWN suggesting that three specific Nokia patents may cover Theora. A deeper analysis indicates that’s just not true.
Two of the patents 6,950,469 and 7,263,125, are post-VP3 and therefore not relevant because the patent filing dates are after the invention and introduction of VP3 (the basis for Theora.) [...]

the difference engine

A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum.
A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.

sunrise over sweden

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Shot this with my N900 on my flight out of Sweden last week and wanted to test out Pitivi. o

artificial sweeteners

Recently, I’ve been doing some posts on food. This is another one.
A friend of mine recently posted a link to a pretty interesting article about an animal model meant to observe the effects of artificial sweeteners on rats. Here’s the money quote:

Even though the saccharin-sweetened yogurt group actually got fewer calories from their [...]

the fosdem dance