http://rejon.org Your Jon Phillips Portal Fri, 09 May 2008 00:49:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BBC NEWS | Technology | TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m This is bullshit. What year is this? (tags: copyright, 2008, bittorrent, pirates, sharing) http://rejon.org/2008/05/08/links-for-2008-05-09/ For anyone trying to offset your carbon footprint: Get a shovel, dig a hole, and bury yourself. I'll take volunteers to do this first and I will document the whole process from start to near finish. http://rejon.org/2008/05/03/the-real-carbon-offset/ AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh! Our time in Guangzhou is nearing an end for this spell. I have not adequately covered what Lu and I have been up to. Here are some immediate photos taken of Guangzhou which illustrate the dynamism of where we live right now. Photos below by Lu Fang under CC BY-NC-SA ... http://rejon.org/2008/05/03/photos-from-guangzhou-china-town-demolitions-and-linux-photo-sharing-question/ Lu's grandpa, Agong, who is 97 years young, asked me why the American elections take so long. This is a daily occurrence here in Guangzhou, especially in the south of china, as many are convinced that some form of democracy or rule by the people is coming. It is just ... http://rejon.org/2008/05/03/obama-2008-has-already-won-discussion-with-chinese-granpda-agong/ 信息时报 - 2008年4月26日 - AT4:酷玩集中营版 - 装置艺术：非花样，实验中的形式 Cool, Lu got some press about her artwork in Chinese news publication (tags: art china network lufang deerfang 2008 guangzhou online print press hit presshit) http://rejon.org/2008/05/02/links-for-2008-05-03/ Jose speaking about Knowledge Hub at the Open Ed conference in Dalian, China, Photo by Tom Caswell I just arrived back home in Guangzhou, China from the OpenCourseWare Conference in Dalian, China last weekend and met many great people (but don't have the tolerance to write out the contents of my ... http://rejon.org/2008/05/02/ocwc-conference-in-dalian-2008-and-beijing/ olafur eliasson show pictures of light artwork Cool sculptures and show from sfmoma (tags: art newmedia sfmoma moma contemporary kanyewest) Science Commons » The Health Commons John Wilbanks is brilliant and the work Science Commons is doing here is totally amazing and a force to keep tabs on! (tags: johnwilbanks friend personal sciencecommons presentation) http://rejon.org/2008/05/01/links-for-2008-05-02/ I wanted to send a big thank you out to The Fedora Project, Max Spevack and Greg DeKoenigsberg for their support of the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Poland, May 8 - 11! Dave Neary wrote a good overview of the state of the massively successful fundraiser we put together ... http://rejon.org/2008/04/28/thanks-to-the-fedora-project-lgm-goal-met/ There are many reasons why I am spending half of my time in China now including: My wife and her family are from China (Guangzhou specifically) Community and Business Development opportunities for Creative Commons and Open Source in Asia, China in particular The contemporary art and web startup scene is exploding in China China ... http://rejon.org/2008/04/20/why-am-i-in-china/ Mike Linksvayer » Red Hat’s awesome desktop Linux work Totally want to underscore how awesome Red Hat's contributions are to the DESKTOP and open source! (tags: redhat contribution 2008 friends awesome desktop linux opensource) http://rejon.org/2008/04/18/links-for-2008-04-19/