Tag Archives: Videos

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