Aaron Swartz committed suicide on 11 January 2013 after nearly two years of being under pressure from prosecutors over his frenzy of downloading JSTOR articles in an automated fashion. During his short life of 26 years, Aaron had contributed much to the Internet. He helped to author RSS 1.0 specifications, authored the RFC for RDF+XML media type, created Markdown and drove Reddit. His role in campaigning against Stop Online Privacy Act proved to be instrumental. SOPA sought to combat Internet copyright …
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I was watching a commercial by Audi featuring the two Spocks. Note the lens flare and references to The Hobbit and Star Trek (both old and new). And then a …
Often we see wedding videos of how a couple comes together. Often we watch videos on how guys proposed to their girlfriends. They are mostly creative, engaged friends and relatives …
Sometimes when life hits a rough patch, you would have to have the associated bad memories erased, forgotten… Sometimes, to the extend of the forgetting oneself. Once, I wished I …