I started writing this post back in November of 2013 and failed to finish it. Ah well.
Oh golly, I don’t blog all that much. So, time to sweep some of the things I’ve been reading and watching in the past few weeks. And comment randomly.
It’s scary to change careers a short inspirational comic by Karen X. Cheng.
GitHub put up a useful guide to how to choose an open source licence for your project.
Bruce Sterling continues to provide blistering and interesting commentary on the current day: The Blast Shack (December 22, 2010) The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years. On Snowden, the NSA and the persistent insanity of secretive organizations in a society that declaims openness. It’s all quite dispiriting.
Machete Maidens Unleashed is a documentary about b-movies of a grindhouse nature made in the Philippines in the 1960s. I’ve mentioned that I was in one of these terrible movies: Up From The Depths before, here and here.