Believing that it is our nature to enjoy giving and receiving in a compassionate manner, I have been preoccupied most of my life with two questions. What happens to disconnect us from our compassionate nature, leading us to behave violently and exploitatively? And conversely, what allows some people to stay connected to their compassionate nature under even the most trying circumstances?

Twirssi allows you to post to Twitter and Identi.ca from your favorite IRC client

netless. a digital network that is using city public transport as its information carrier. distributed and friend-2-friend, netless is an independent communication tactic; invisible digital network that does not need wires or dedicated radio frequencies. alternative communication device that helps its users to avoid such controlled and observed space as the internet. free from governmentally owned medium channels (radio frequency ranges, emission power), proprietary locked technologies and cable networks, netless stays Yours Truly.

Share is an experiment in designing a networked programming tool for distributed communities of practice. It is an IDE that automatically shares all the code you write with everyone else that is using Share, and keeps track of how that code is used.

Over ninety percent of artists and musicians do not make their living from their recording contracts or art sales, so there is no easy life that copyleft will ruin. That said, every little helps. Reputation is the key, and copyleft does not harm reputation. Easy access to your work may even help your reputation.

I’d like to believe that there’s money to be made with this whole open source culture. I’ve come to realize that is what I want to do with my life; I should say, this is what we want to do with our company – be good and make profit at the same time. And we don’t have to be Google to do it.

We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!

Just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. You need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so.

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Doc Searls on Danish independent ISP IndieNet.dk

a repository of all things inkscape by freedesktop.org

the nytimes on xkcd

violet blue on online communication and self-esteem

the story of a japanese bbs