Get a First Life and the SecondLife trademarks

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I am not a Second Life resident, and so far I have not had the inclination to become one. But this message from Linden Labs in response to the very funny parody site Get a First Life brought a big broad smile to my face - and gives me ideas about the ways in which the GNOME Foundation should be handling trademark issues. Talk about turning an opportunity for bad press into good press.

(via Jim Fruchterman of Benetech, one of my heros)

Dirk Hondel on GNOME

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On the occasion of the release of Portland v. 1.0, VNUNet digs up a classic quote:

“The KDE guys desperately wanted to look and feel like Windows, and the other guys desperately wanted to make it as hard to use as possible,” said Dirk Hondel at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in August.

Joshorn

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So Jono got shaved at LRL - and now he needs a new hackergochi.

Before the shaving, I was anticipating the event, and with my reknowned GIMP skillz, decided to see what he’d look like afterwards. So now I give you the Jono shaved hackergochi.

Jono shorn

An Australian solution to a global problem

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Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area, because they can’t stand the music

Who knew that Barry Manilow could become such a force for public order.