How to feed cats with Linux

Posted by Richard Bennett

This guide to an automated cat-feeding system is essential to modern life, especially the vacation part: We have to work, but that doesn’t mean our cats should have to go without stinky little fish, right? Why should our economic necessities have a negative effect on their treat times? Isn’t it our responsibility to build them [...]

MoveOn.org: The boy who cried wolf

Posted by Richard Bennett

The nation’s left knee didn’t take long to start jerking. Here’s what the professional hysterics at Moveon. org want you to do: In nominating John Roberts, the president has chosen a right wing corporate lawyer and ideologue for the nation’s highest court instead of a judge who would protect the rights of the American people. [...]

Lessig’s new suit

Posted by Richard Bennett

John Dvorak speaks truth to power: Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford? Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous “fair use” provisos of [...]