Sleeveface the book is out now! Sleeveface has a dedicated blog of its own, so I’ll try not to duplicate too much here. It also has more info about the book. At the moment we are doing a real mixed bag of press and radio interviews. Sunday Times magazine carried a feature recently, this afternoon I’ve just been speaking to the Irish Examiner, then soon it’s National Public Radio in the USA. It’s particularly been ...

In December 2007, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation formally decided to ask the Free Software Foundation, which administers the GNU Free Documentation License under which Wikipedia is distributed, to release a new version of the license which will allow Wikimedia to switch its content to the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license (CC-BY-SA). The underlying motivation of this change is that CC-BY-SA is an easier-to-use license granting the same essential freedoms as the GFDL. ...

With her big round boobs, long luscious hair, and cute face, Kimber James is a lot like all the other girls signed by L.A. Direct. In fact, there's really only one difference... and it happens to be right between her legs. Yes, it's true: L.A. Direct has signed its very first trans model—which, hopefully, might lead other big Porn Valley players to start signing t-girls (or at least Kimber James). Anyone else hoping for a ...

This may come as a shock to most of you, but we took the kids trick or treating on Friday. I know, I know. You didn't see that one coming, huh? We went out last year, but we had the little guys in the stroller and didn't go too far. So in a lot of ways, this felt like the first year we took the whole family out. Grammy manned the front door for us, ...

By Benjamin Lynn, Google Developer ProgramsDo you often work offline? Wish you could make local commits that you can reorganize and upload later? Would you like to have your own copy of the entire history of the project which you can peruse at your leisure?Do you want to serve code and its history to others? Have changes you want to share but it's too early for the public?Working on several issues in parallel? Need to ...

[This is the third installment of a presentation I gave to Microsoft developers at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2008) in Los Angeles. It starts here.] Microsoft also operates one of the largest Claims Providers in the world - our cloud identity provider service, Windows Live ID. It plays host to more than four hundred million consumer identities. In the Geneva wave, Live ID will add “managed domain” services for sites and customers wanting to ...

Oh, dear. Looks like Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin totally got punked by a Canadian comedy duo known as The Masked Avengers, who somehow got a hold of the Governor and tricked her into believing that she was actually speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "You know, I see you as a President someday," the fake Sarkozy says, to which Palin replies, "Oh, I don't know, maybe in 8 years." Palin comes across as a ...

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..and few weeks back, it happened… at last. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar became the highest run getter in the history of test cricket, and the only man to cross the 12000 run mark. As Alfred Victor Vigny has said, “Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age” I remember writing this about 3 years back, and sparking off a Gavaskar-Tendulkar debate then. And inspite of that, I still consider Sachin a greater player than ...

LOC photo taken by Abby, two days after LibraryThing became a "real company" in 2006LibraryThing now has 32,287,447 books cataloged—finally surpassing the number of books in the Library of Congress (32,124,001 according to the ALA Fact Sheet). We've been waiting for this for years, as we slowly made our way up the list. Alas, now that we've topped it, what have we to aspire towards?We're not trying to say that LibraryThing compares with the LC, ...