Prosthetic Conscience

Some of these have been piling up for a while.

• Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines
  

  It’s not surprising – if a company lacks a culture of ethics, it’s not going to be unethical in only one facet of its business.

• Obama’s Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them | Linux Journal
  

  Not surprisingly, McCain used Microsoft.

• Millions of Linux Users, they can’t all be experts. « dthomasdigital
  

  My impression is that a lot of these new users are people who are not technology professionals or even hobbyists like the old generation of Linux users, but are experienced, savvy computer users. People who are used to doing a lot of things on the web and who know that the correct response when you’re having a problem with a program is to google to see if anyone else is having it, too.

• Money Oriented Programmers
  

  Thank goddess I’m not one. I don’t get to program as much for my own ends as I’d like to anymore, but at least I still have a fundamental love for what I do.

• Osaka and the Yellow Sign (Shoujo-Ai Archive Azumanga Daioh Fanfiction)
  

  A bizarre story in which Osaka of Azumanga Daioh is chosen by the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign as the new Cassilda…

• Ghosts of Clinton’s Past – In These Times
  

  Why is Obama recycling right-wing Clinton administration advisors for his cabinet?

• Open Source India: The practical problem with software patents
  
• Does the Human Mind Have Potential “Super Powers”? -A Galaxy Classic
  Temple Grandin discusses both the neurological and evolutionary bases of these in her books, as well as what it’s like to experience the world in this way.
• 20 tasks now that the election is over – hEyOkA mAgAzInE
  
• Jannis Leidel - An autocomplete widget for django-tagging form fields