On Dec. 16, 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor – the “Boston Tea Party.â€
Archive for December, 2005
This Day in History
Friday, December 16th, 2005This Day in History
Thursday, December 15th, 2005On Dec. 15, 1916, the French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun. The battle resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and about half a million wounded. It was the longest battle of World War I.
The End of the Internet
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005The end of the internet
I’m not being dramatic the internet will be dead in 5 years if the telcoms are allowed to create this kind of structure. For a decade now the WWW has thrived on the backbone of the internet. This has been possible because of the end to end structure of the internet which allows individuals to publish and small companies to thrive. This proposal by At&t would kill the internet as we know it. By regulating the content that can travel over their infrastructure the telco would be in control of the internet. This is unacceptable. Call your congress person and demand that the internet remain free.
This Day In History
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005On Dec. 13, 1937, Nanking, the capital of China, falls to Japanese forces and in what became known as the “Rape of Nanking,” the Japanese butchered an estimated 150,000 male “war prisoners,” massacred an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages.
Thunderbird Testing Day
Monday, December 12th, 2005If you are looking for a replacement to your current crappy (IE Outlook) Email client and want to help out with the development of a great piece of open source software check this out:Mozilla Quality: Thunderbird Community Testing Day planned for Tuesday, Dec 13
Basically you can be an instant beta tester for the day and help to get Thunderbird up to release status. So get of your butt tomorrow and help out!
Gmail Filesystem
Monday, December 12th, 2005I found this awsome piece of software today… you can use your Google mail box (which has something like a 2gig limit) to store data just like a standard mounted file system… very cool. I’m already using it to mail myself backups, and now I will just have an easier time of it.
This Day in History
Monday, December 12th, 2005On Dec. 12, 1901, Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean, disproving detractors who told him that the curvature of the earth would limit transmission to 200 miles or less.
This Day in History
Friday, December 9th, 2005On Dec. 9, 1940, two British divisions, half of them composed of Indian troops, attack seven Italian divisions in Egypt. Overwhelmed, the Italian position in Egypt collapsed
Student Suspended Over Blog
Thursday, December 8th, 2005You should really read this article. It quite clearly shows what can happen to a student in a school without an impartial judicial process. This is a dental student, probably 20-25 years old who is being suspended from school for one year because of a few posts in his non school supported personal blog. In today’s p2p free sharing world many people have begun posting everything that comes to mind. I heard from my sister the other day that people at Dominican University often use Live Journal as a way to hash out difficulties and repair friendships in a low risk environment. This kind of free sharing lays at the foundation of what the internet has become. The web is no longer a strictly academic environment, but has become instead a place where ideas (bad and good) can be shared with an audience with virtually no stage fright.
This over reaction by the administration at Marquette is comparable requiring women to wear skirts or banning rock music, and should not be tolerated by the student body.
This Day In History
Thursday, December 8th, 2005On Dec. 8, 1980, John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City. He was 40 years old and was shot while entering his apartment.
