December 30th, 2011
John Gilmore (activist) - Wikipedia

John Gilmore (born 1957) is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project.

As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 90s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar. Outside of the GNU project he founded the FreeS/WAN project, an implementation of IPsec, to promote the encryption of Internet traffic. He sponsored the EFF’s Deep Crack DES cracker, the Micropolis city building game based onSimCity, and he is a proponent of opportunistic encryption…
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May 27th, 2011
(via Six Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Chrome’s Labs - Lifehacker)  Google Chrome is a favorite among power users in no small part due to its innovative experimental features (many of which are eventually integrated into the stable browser). For our final installment of the best of Google Labs, we’re taking a look at the best experimental, advanced features you can add to Google Chrome. To enable any of these Chrome Labs (or at least what we’re calling Chrome Labs—they’ve changed the name in the past, and currently they’re “flags” or “experimental features”), type about:flags into Chrome’s address bar, click the Enable link below any feature you want to try out, and then relaunch your browser. [oh yes - especially Click To Play: …This Lab puts an option in Chrome’s settings to only play plug-ins (like YouTube videos) on demand. Plug-ins that play automatically can be annoying (or, worse, a security threat), so the option to play them only at will is a nice feature. …]

(via Six Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Chrome’s Labs - Lifehacker)

 Google Chrome is a favorite among power users in no small part due to its innovative experimental features (many of which are eventually integrated into the stable browser). For our final installment of the best of Google Labs, we’re taking a look at the best experimental, advanced features you can add to Google Chrome.

To enable any of these Chrome Labs (or at least what we’re calling Chrome Labs—they’ve changed the name in the past, and currently they’re “flags” or “experimental features”), type about:flags into Chrome’s address bar, click the Enable link below any feature you want to try out, and then relaunch your browser.

[oh yes - especially Click To Play:

…This Lab puts an option in Chrome’s settings to only play plug-ins (like YouTube videos) on demand. Plug-ins that play automatically can be annoying (or, worse, a security threat), so the option to play them only at will is a nice feature.

…]

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April 28th, 2011
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments — John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (via liquidnight)
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