Putfile – HHO GAS: HHO GAS perhaps real….

Housing Boycott: My wife and I are tired of the insanity of Bay Area housing prices, and want to fight back. Most of our friends — and we suspect, you — do too. So we created this website to start a grass roots movement to stop the insanity, through a synchronized boycott, and through education. […]

F.A.Q.: How can I help Free Creations? 1. You can release your artwork under Against DRM 2.0. 2. You can use our logos. 3. You can translate Against DRM 2.0 into a new language. ——– this looks like another step in the right direction

The Urban Kunoichi » Elevator/Lift hacking: When you need to get to your floor quickly, bypassing any requests along the way, hold your floor’s button and press the door close button at the same time. You should sail straight to your floor without stopping! —- don’t use these inappropriately.

BBC mistakes cab driver for Net pundit on TV interview: Mark Frauenfelder: The BBC wanted to interview Newswireless.net editor Guy Kewney about the Apple music / Apple computer decision but accidentally pulled his cab driver onto the set for a live TV interview. It makes for excellent viewing. ———- this is great.

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility. Existentialist 88% […]

An Open Letter to Google: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative: Greetings. Of possible interest: An Open Letter to Google: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative Preface: The overall situation relating to U.S. and global privacy issues is deteriorating rapidly. Recent Congressional moves toward legislating broad, government-mandated data retention laws are… ——- this seems like […]

Decline and fall of the Roman myth – Newspaper Edition – Times Online: The Celts’ use of metal even allowed them to invent a harvesting machine. Historians did not believe that it could be true until bas-relief sculptures were discovered that apparently show just such a contraption. It was a sort of comb on wheels […]

Higher Learning in France Clings to Its Old Ways – New York Times: In a speech at the Sorbonne in late April after the labor law was rescinded, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin pledged “a new pact between the university and the French people.” Mr. de Villepin, a graduate of the École Nationale d’Administration, the […]

You Go, Girl: Now there are hundreds of grown women in the hotel ballroom, eating salmon to celebrate her and her GirlSource sisters. GirlSource hires 150 poor girls a year, aged 14 to 18, mostly from the Mission, Bayview, Hunters’ Point. They’re trained—and paid—to run a chatty health information website, by girls, for girls. They […]