http://www.salivation.org Cognition Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:20:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yosemite National Park is probably one of the most photographed locations on Earth - and for good reason. I've gone camping, driven through the mountains, etc. plenty, but while I've seen many beautiful natural scenes I've never seen anything like Yosemite first-hand. That's not to say I wasn't familiar with what ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/10/road-trip-yosemite/ LittleBigPlanet has been delayed a week. Apparently, the soundtrack contains a song that dares to quote a couple of lines from the Qur'an (presumably Sony is trying to avoid death threats and the like). I really wish companies would stop caring so much what a relative handful of reactionary ideologues ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/10/littlebigplanet-delayed/ Those following me on Twitter may have noticed that I've been on a road trip from home in southern California to Washington State. This is a trip that I've done many times but - due to my (as of October 10th) lack of a job and the fact that I would ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/10/road-trip-mono-lake/ As expected, the House passed the revised bail-out Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 bill - after it had been laden with additional pork and other "incentives" - by a wide margin, 263 for and 171 against. Of course, the actual reasons why so many people opposed the bill - the ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/10/house-votes-to-bail-out-wall-street/ In an uncharacteristic display of good sense (by current standards), Apple has finally decided to drop the non-disclosure clause from the iPhone developer agreement, claiming that it was intended to prevent competitors from ripping them off (which makes no sense - no NDA is going to prevent that months after ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/10/apple-drops-nd/ In what was an incredibly narrow vote, the House voted against filling the coffers of irresponsible Wall Street firms to a tune of $700 billion tax-payer provided dollars. As much as I'd like to celebrate this news, the sad fact is that it's likely that a slightly amended version of the ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/09/house-votes-no-on-bail-out/ Some posts on Twitter a few weeks back may have clued some in that something was afoot, but I wasn't really prepared to make public note of it until now. After 9 and a half years working at DreamHost, I have decided to leave (effective October 10th). This was due to ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/09/so-i-quit-my-job/ Wacky anti-gaming kook/lawyer Jack Thompson has, at long last, been disbarred. Is it too much to ask that he shut the hell up and fade away? It would seem so. http://www.salivation.org/2008/09/jack-thompson-disbarred/ I've been watching with increasing levels of exasperation the current goings-on in Washington DC, where our leaders have decided to saddle the American tax-payer with a $700 billion dollar bail-out of bad mortgage-backed securities - the largest such economic intervention undertaken by the Federal government since the Great Depression. Looking at ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/09/let-em-burn/ Looks like Apple has come up with a unique way to deal with the iPhone App Store issue: They've begun putting the actual rejection letters themselves under a non-disclosure agreement. The mind, it boggles. I have to wonder - are we starting to see a return to the "dumb Apple" ... http://www.salivation.org/2008/09/apple-rejection-letters-covered-under-nda/