The Buy Bush a PlayStation 2
Campaign has succeeded in raising the $370 necessary to buy President
George Bush a PS2, two military-themed games "to suit his apparent taste"
and "an extra controller for Mr. Cheney's use".
Why? I think the reasons are obvious:
As I sat pondering the President's motives one day, it suddenly dawned on me that it is entirely likely our Commander in Chief has never played a single video game in his life. "Of course!" I exclaimed, startling mygirlfriend, who was driving at the time. "Without the catharsis that video games provide, Bush has no way of fulfilling his militaristic fantasies other than actually fighting wars."
While I doubt Mr. Bush will ever even see his new PS2, this site is a
hilarious use of the internet for devistating political satire: "We ask
that you accept these gifts and use them, rather than the lives of Iraqi
civilians and our U.S. servicemen, to fulfill any militaristic fantasies."
I hope it works.
A classy logo for Free Software
I just sent the following email to gnu@gnu.org. Perhaps I should've also
sent it to RMS himself to make sure someone reads it, but I imagine he
gets enough email as it is. Comments on the idea are welcome.
Hello.
You have no doubt seen the recently adopted Open Source Initiative "OSI
Certified" logo for software projects which use open source licenses. If
not, you can find an example of the OSI Certified graphic at http://opensource.org/trademarks/osi-certified/web/osi-certified-120x100.png
and instructions for its use at http://opensource.org/trademarks/ .
I find the the OSI Certified mark distinguished and visually pleasing.
It's clear keyhole symbolism reflects the ideals of the open source
movement. However, as a proud free software developer, I would like to be able to display a similar
graphic on my free software programs. Perhaps there could be two versions,
one which proclaims that the software is "Free Software", and another
which complements that with "GPL Compatable". Any project that adheres to
the FSF's list of free
software licenses could use the logo.
What do you think of this idea?
