Month: May 2006
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Using Blue Frog to Fight Email Spam
Email spam wars have begun! The spam fighters are under attack, but bluesecurity.com is where you can download blue frog, a tool that sends opt-out emails to spammers. A security expert summarizes: Blue Security’s approach to reducing unsolicited email is to combine a do not email registry with a mechanism that automates and simplifies the…
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Podcasting Legally
From the Podcast Pedant, I see that Creative Commons has issued a guide to podcasting legally. It quotes from the Copyright law: Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection. However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of…
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Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning (the book)
A few years ago I wrote a lengthy slashdot review of an important book about the educational value of games. I just learned that author/game developer Marc Prensky has written a sequel that addresses a question I’m encountering more and more often: reassuring parents that the time spent by children in gameplay is educationally valuable.…
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Binding Mandatory Arbitration: Be on the Lookout!
Brief notes: Jim Thompson on archiving videos and why DVDs aren’t a good archiving solution. Here’s a forum discussion about devices to take VHS to your PC. Podsafemusic lets you locate CC attribution music Slashdot discussion on doing things in linux with root. Nonadmin, a site that tells you how to use a user acccount…
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Sleeping at Airports
A survey of what’s working and what’s not in online advertising. I have no idea how I stumbled upon this site, but here’s a site giving anecdotes about sleeping in airports. Here are the reviews of Houston IAH Airport. Here’s a great piece on how to sleep at airports. Tips: bring noise-cancellation headphones (to block…