David lafontaine's
Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Mural Art in “South of the Miracle” Neighborhood
It may not be Banksy, but it's still pretty cool to see local merchants reaching out to the community to pre-emptively cover their walls with something that connects with the local community. I was out for a walk, and stumbled across this guy at the corner of Venice...
Petting the Mountain Lion
Petting the Cougar, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This is one of a series of photos I've put up on Flickr showing the various exotic animals at The Nature of Wildworks, a rescue facility in Topanga Canyon. More & more of them keep accumulating, as people who...
More Apple EULA Goodness
Not to sound like a whiny ex-Apple fanboi here (check out the wrath Cory Doctorow has incurred over a BoingBoing by addressing this issue, if you dare) -- but every time I tap to update my iPhone apps, I gotta swallow another amended EULA from Apple. This latest...
Mindshare LA: “The Illusion of Free Will”
No. this isn't about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a...
WikiLeaks Fallout: Draconian EULAs from Adobe, Apple, etc.
How ’bout we make sure that the revisions to the basic document viewing and sharing software that pretty much everybody uses has “features” in it that check to see if you’re working with anything that’s been flagged as Top Secret, and then finks on you to The Man.
How the Online Trojan/Virus Hackers Make Money
This is a great flow chart, explaining how the Dark Side of the internet uses your unwary clicks to generate real money. (h/t ComputerSchool.org)It's interesting to see the actual breakdown of how stealing your passwords and compromising your bank accounts can pay off...