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Mastercard has released a commercial with MacGyver in it.

Someone wrote a model railroad controller, and made it Free Software. Now a buisness, who clearly uses poor buisness practices, is now going after him. An update to the situation is available here.

Really neat visual effects demo done using ferrofluids, a class of liquids that react to magnents.

I’ve decided that I’m quitting the Freenode IRC network. The network is run by someone that is very inept at his job, Rob Levin (aka lilo), who constantly causes problems with the users of the network, and makes enemies of everyone.

He also makes everything a political issue, constantly censors users for exercising their free speech rights (very insulting for a network founded on such a concept), and also constantly bans people he disagrees with from the network. In addition to all of this, he also blames people he dislikes for random attacks against the network.

The worst thing of all: Yesterday, he crapflooded #oftc on the Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) with a 300 user strong group as an “April Fool’s Joke”, wasting the network’s resources, and dozens of users are already quitting Freenode forever along with me over this.

I suggest everyone move their channels to OFTC instead, a network devoted to free speech and free software.