Just for one day.

[reddragdiva]

• RationalWiki needs more money. Here's some of our best stuff.

• An attempt to explain the "male gaze" to oblivious techies.

• Rocknerd: And the man at the back said everyone attack and it turned into a courtroom blitz; The Shit Record Covers group; The struggle for existence; Before record execs go to bed, they check the closet for Kim Dotcom.

• My Wikimedia blog: CIPR TV webcast on PR people and Wikipedia; Anyone who advocates advertising on Wikipedia is still a drooling moron.

mikey_ob died Monday night after a long battle with brain cancer. Glad I got to catch up with him a coupla years ago. I got to know him mostly 1992-94, when he was living in the cyberpunk house in Stuart St. ‎"No, no. It's 'Heroes' by Bowie and Eno."

On Saturday 16th I helped the Open Rights Group commit democracy. There's no voting system so complicated that sufficiently pedantic geeks can't make it more so. At least the results were reasonably robust and no-one yelled. Being geeks, we've linked the software, scripts and data for anyone to kick.

I have also been trying to explain to PR people how not to shoot their whole leg off when dealing with Wikipedia. So far I appear to be communicating okay to the ones who aren't actually hard of thinking.

arkady just upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 and saw Unity for the first time. "EUUWWWW." A sound like someone's first goatse. (The netbook now has Kubuntu 12.04 and is very happy thank you.)

Music hit a high point in Australia in the late 1980s that it hasn't ever quite equalled. Now playing: Thug "Penis Penis Penis Bosom Bosom Arsehole".

Comments

[jld]

There's no voting system so complicated that sufficiently pedantic geeks can't make it more so.

The NetBSD Foundation uses something not entirely unlike this process.

[(Anonymous)]

Thug "Penis Penis Penis Bosom Bosom Arsehole": LGT brokenness.

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Huey

[ninshubur]

That "Software Developer Song" from the Male Gaze article is probably one of the most excruciatingly painful things I ever attempted to watch.

What did surprise me about the article is the inherent assumption shining through that male techies somehow naturally ought to know better. It of course would be nice if they would, but I would argue that the profession is to a degree inherently self-selecting against the very traits that would make people sensitive to those things.

[reddragdiva]

Only in the sense that the typical mind fallacy gives even worse results for them than for most people.

[mstevens]

I'm tempted to perform the Unity complaint ritual but it's getting a bit old.

My new laptop is happilyish running xubuntu.

[thefon.net]

It would be good to catch up with you soon, now that things are settling down.

Sad to hear about mikey_ob too.

Unity - I'm actually using it, and don't mind it. Not enough to bother with kubuntu or xubuntu, anyway. A few quick tweaks (shrink icons, hotkeys, add a start menu, add a taskbar) and it's fine.