As reported in The Age: The candidate: Obama woos the doubters
I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don’t understand is that this election has never been about me. It’s about you… America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
John Terpstra, a Linux developer with a long and interesting history in the field, and a perspective on the past and future course of Linux. He is perhaps best known as the co-founder of the Samba project, and has written a couple of books on it.
The presentation will occur at the regular ALG meeting on August 28 at 625E 10th St, Austin TX
Presentation slides in PDF format.
Greenpeace USA are taking Kimberly-Clark to task regarding the greenwashing of their tissue products.
Remember children, Kleenex tissues make Wall-E cry!
The Australian TV channel SBS has been airing an interesting documentary The Nest about children of baby boomers who tend to live at home until well into their 20s. I’m collecting here from the blogosphere, a list of lame justifications for sponging from parents into your 20s.
I guess if some of those generation Y folks were paying their own way and taking more responsibility, they’d have a bit less time to entertain us with their blogging. I’m sympathetic towards the families on the TV show, although many others are much less so.
From a recent news story of the dangers of religious belief:
A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say “amen” after meals.
Update: For further information regarding religious cults: www.cultwatch.com
A “facebook friend” of mine has an interesting blog entry about shallow networks:
Shallow networks where we know tidbits and some trivia about 100s of people, but don’t share anything meaningful with them. We sit in front of our monitor, checking our emails, blogs we follow, status of friends for the next piece of trivia to come. Maybe we will even write a comment this time, that is if they have been truly witty or controversial, more likely we will just skim it as we skip to the next piece of trivia.
My two cents is that the day-to-day trivia is what keeps the world turning. Enthusiasm about a new movie, venting about the boss, worry about the news headlines. It’s a way of nurturing a connection in between face-to-face meetings.
For my part, it is the main way that I can maintain contact with Yusuf – and I’m glad I came across his blog entry via the “shallow network”.
Young Australian Skeptics
