A life in words

  • Date With Destiny

    Here is my group’€™s film for the 2005 Oscars competition: Date With Destiny. [Note: Don’t expect this to work any more!]

  • Firefox 1.5 Bursts Free? Sneaks Out

    Firefox 1.5 has been released. For a list of the crazy new features, check here. I think that all the hype is waiting for the Firefox Flicks ad competition. This release seems like a much more subtle event than the bold release of 1.0, for example. This is because when you open up the new…

  • Russian squirrel pack ‘kills dog’

    Another sign that Russia’s welfare system has seen much better days. Read it here. Thanks to Shark of The Shark’s Byte for the hilarious tipoff.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech … Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or control the right of another: and this is the only check it ought to suffer, and the only bounds it ought to know. … A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their freedom of speech. … Freedom of speech is ever the symptom, as well as the effect of a good government. … Guilt only dreads liberty of speech, which drags it out of its lurking holes, and exposes its deformity and horror to daylight.Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood no. 8, 1722 (orthography and spelling modernized)