Reading OSnews is an amusing pastime for me. It’s replete with comedic gems like this one:
Why Apple snubs its open source geeks
For over a month the claim has been made that MacOS X is now a proprietary operating system when it was once an open-source panacea, and many in the open source world have [...]

H.264, MPEG-4’s advanced codec featured in the iPod, the Sony PSP, and both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, as well as future broadcast video standards, has a lot of skeptics. Many say H.264 doesn’t have a lot to offer people when videos are compressed at the higher bitrates required for HD content (self-contradictory, as H.264 is accepted [...]

Having just seen the movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’, I must say I’m a bit surprised.
I’m surprised because I found the book to be childishly written and the screenplay worked out better, which never happens.
Also, while the story has clearly been sensationalized to the point of a number of people believing it to be true, [...]

I ran across this keynote speech on Chris Blizzard’s blog, and I think it deserves passing around.
This is a keynote speech by Corey Doctorow, who used to be with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This organisation basically fights for the preservation of the end-user’s rights in a world where the law is still being firmly established [...]