Technotarian
I was reading this very interesting article on Bitcoin by Jasan Calacanis and used the term “technotarian” and then defined it in a footnote as:
We made this term up to describe the “good people” of the internet who believe in the fundamental rights of individuals to be free, have free speech, fight hypocrisy and stand behind logic, technology and science over religion, political structure and tradition. These are the people who build and support things like Wikileaks, Anonymous, Linux and Wikipedia. They think that people can, and should, govern themselves. They are against external forms of control such as DRM, laws that are bought and sold by lobbyists, and religions like Scientology. They include splinter groups that enforce these ideals in the form of hacktivism, such as the takedown of the Sony Playstation Network after Sony tried to prosecute a hacker for unlocking its console.
Great term. A quick search also brought this 1995 definition of Technological Libertarianism.
Great piece on CaringBridge on the news tonight. Quality. Organization I’m proud to work with. Congrats Sona Mehring!
Just won the Change Game on 48¢!
Star ratings seem such poor taste for Classical music. Is there a website for reliable metadata for classical music? Trying to get my classical section of iTunes cleaner.
Happy that I remembered I have a thermos! Keeps the weekend Chemex coffee nice and hot!
One of my favorite photos from Minnebar. Paul DeBettignies prepared to deal with power challenges.
Created two new address book groups “MinneBar Pings” and “MinneDemo Pings” so I remember to nag people to get to events.
MinneBar 6 Photos
Yesterday was an absolutely great MinneBar event. I lugged the big camera around to get some shots. I didn’t get that many because I presented for the first three sessions. I got some good shots from the kick-off and a handful of others.
Minnebar 6
- I got the privilege of kicking off and introducing Ben and Luke this morning at MinneBar 6. About 1,000 people!
- MinneBar 6 is going down as the best MinneBar yet in my book. Awesome everyone!
- Leading a Minnebar talk on geeky tools to a room of geeks takes guts. Hats off.
- MinneBar Unix Geek
cat foo.txt | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c. - MinneBar Unix Geeks check out Cool, but obscure unix tools.
- What a great event! Pano shot from the stage at the start of Minnebar.
Twilight Zone on Netflix Streaming
How great! I was looking at Netflix tonight via Apple TV and noticed that the original Twilight Zone series is now available. Watching season 1, episode 1, “Where is Everybody?” now.
A couple of months ago we were at my Aunt Susie’s house and she had this bottle of wine with a very memorable name. Made me chuckle. 😀
Really bummed to be missing the Minnebar organizer/sponsor dinner tonight. I’m on Dad duty all weekend and couldn’t swing it tonight.
The new Beastie Boys album is just amazing. Floored.
Hotel WiFi is significantly worse than Personal Hotspot via iPhone. I’m surprised how often I’m using personal hotspot.
I spent the night at the Rosewood this week for an overnight trip to Palo Alto. Beautiful grounds and great view from the room.
MacBook Air is so light, I think I’ll just bring both of them (work & home) on this trip. 😀
Enjoying a 2nd very good macchiato at Angry Catfish. Recommended.
Tesla Roadster Sighting
First spotting of a Tesla Roadster in Minneapolis. Parked outside of Café Lurcat. Given the plates I’m guessing it is someone from Z.Vex Effects car.
