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Node Doubt About It.

I recently read this retort from Evan Prodromou regarding the long term strategy of the Laconica software and the OMB protocol. The idea of a series of federated microblogging ecosystems is a good one but only if the the quality of those nodes is there to make it all worth it. With the ideas outlined here [...]

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Cunning Racists

A complaint has been made to the BBC about alleged racism in a scene in Basil Brush in which a gypsy woman is selling heather and wooden pegs. Can you believe the nerve of the producers? Showing something that clearly never happens.

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• Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin #
• We don’t beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well — Dr. Randy Pausch #
• There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. — P.J. O’Rourke #
• there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. — The Most. Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr John Sentamu #
• To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail — Mark Twain #