Tag Archives: Videos

Mark Shuttleworth’s Keynote at UDS Q

Mark Shuttleworth’s key­note speech intro­duces a lot of awe­some stuff for the future of Ubuntu, plus a lot of grat­it­ude paid to developers and design­ers who worked and are con­tinu­ing to work on Ubuntu. High­lights include a 48 node 192 core server designed to run effi­ciently enough to allow you to run it in your

Subconscious Self Retains Some Credibility.

My strictly stalker-like admir­a­tion for Hanazawa Kana’s voice seems to be echoed by the female half of the human pop­u­la­tion. The last part of the video ends with a mock-sketch of a little sis­ter telling her big sis­ter to cheer up. My trans­la­tion based-on a feeble grasp of Japan­ese. Kana-chan: My dear sis­ter. You have

Tofu Loves You

Stick with it. Trust me on this.

The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.

I have always had a thing for sci­ence fic­tion, or sci-fi, but not ever SyFy(lis). Not sure I can say the same about West­erns, although I have reason to believe I may like them for their pro­mo­tion of the lone hero who some­how saves the day by out­last­ing his oppon­ents. That said, Fire­fly, that bril­liant

She’s Selling it Better

Nor­mally, I am not eas­ily worked up over ter­minal com­mands in Ubuntu. Admit­tedly, this is now the hot­test video to me on You­Tube fol­lowed by the Pro­toss Mothership rush.

Patent Absurdity” Shows the Patent Absurdity of Patents

Pat­ent Absurdity is a 30-minute short film that charts the growth of the soft­ware pat­ent­ing sys­tem in the United States of Amer­ica. It dis­cusses how the court sys­tem used to treat soft­ware as a pro­cess that can­not be pat­en­ted, which some­how along the way turned into the gigantic lit­ig­a­tion mind-fuck that is the soft­ware pat­ent