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January 17th, 2006 · No Comments

Wired News: Anonymity on a Disc
AnonymOS, a BSD-based, TOR-enabled live cd for user-friendly secure internet use. Via: http://tech.memeorandum.com
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BugMeNot 1.1 is out.
An update to one of my favorite Firefox extensions. BugMeNot allows users to bypass logins for sites which require free registration for content. I use it all the time for newspaper sites. [...]

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2006

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Every year on this day, I try to take time to sit down and read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. Dr. King wrote the letter in April, 1963 to a group of Alabama clergymen who had expressed dismay at the methods he and the SCLC were using to agitate for [...]

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Gather.com

January 15th, 2006 · No Comments

If you’ve been listening to MPR recently, you’ve no doubt heard the sponsor mentions for Gather.com. My impression of the site is that it’s something like Friendster for windy old people. Or About.com meets MySpace meets a sensible sweater and a cup of tea. Anyway, my own personal bias aside, the site seems to be [...]

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