Anti-Capitalista

A Photo of Yiannis Bournous from the The Power of One exhibit at Bumbershoot. The Power of One featured shot of individuals who made an impact on society and the theme was heavily biased against Globalization and Capitalism.

The irony of me walking around in my Nike shoes, sipping my Starbucks latte, [...]

PowerShell script to download the XKCD archive

Since I’m a big fan of XKCD (and of PowerShell), I wrote a PowerShell script to download the entire XKCD archive. It’s not the most elegant script and to save time I re-used the Get-Webfile function from http://poshcode.org/417, but I thought I’d share it out broadly for the betterment of geekdom.
The entire script including the function [...]

Did the blogosphere kill Slashdot?

A long long time ago, in an Internet far far way, in an age before Scoble, before Digg, before blogs and RSS, before Wikipedia and yes, even before Google, there was Slashdot.

At a time where I poked around on Yahoo and CNet with lynx trying to stay up to date on the latest tech news, [...]