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Archive for April, 2007

Let DRM die (as it should)

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

What if the new DRM free files from iTunes Store finds their way to the shady world of illegal sharing sites so fast that the trend don’t catch on! Please show your very hope that this will never happen and your intense hate against DRM by digging this!
read more | digg story

Mark Shuttleworth audio interview about Ubuntu,future trends and Microsoft

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

South African Mark Shuttleworth made his fortune in 1999, when Thawte Consulting, the company he started in a garage in Cape Town, was bought by VeriSign for $575m. In 2002, he spent $20m to join the Russian space program as a cosmonaut, training for a year before blasting off from a launch pad in Kazakhstan. [...]

Why are geeks often atheist?

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

An interesting trend on sites such as Digg, Slashdot and Shuzak suggests that atheism is the “religion” of choice among geeks. Why is atheism more popular among geeks when clearly the average person is religious? Well this article might have an explanation.
read more | digg story