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Hrmmm… For years, I’ve been under the impression that EFF stood for “Electronic Freedom Frontier”, but I just noticed on my credit card bill that their name is really “Electronic Frontier Foundation”.
A quick Google search shows I’m not alone in my confusion, but the phrase only appears once anywhere on eff.org.
Anyone know the history of their name?
Tool to calculate how good your household’s energy usage is. Comparatively, our’s is horrendous. I wonder if we can train Bacon to run around in a wheel…?
Early days yet (definitely falling into the half-an-app rather than half-assed-app), but this is a good start on the shared web-calendar problem. If they solve syncing-with-Outlook in a decent manner, they’ll be millionaires by Christmas.
Is Wikipedia’s definition of Nihilartikel a Nihilartikel itself?
The snopes.com Nihilartikels — Fabricated explanations to catch out folks ripping off the site.
“Esquivalience” is revealed as a Nihilartikel hidden in the OED to foil pirates.
Heads up, Britons! The Daily Show — the best satire on TV anywhere in the world today — is hitting the (digital) British airwaves in October.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.