Ok, this is apparently old news, but still it was new to me. newscientists.com has an article on Ink-jet printing of living. This sounds like a wonderful idea. Canon is apparently doing the same thing in Japan

If you are installing Gnome on FreeBSD right now, you should read this article. I expect it’ll be outdated fairly quickly, so if you’re reading this a month from now you can probably skip it

The Mono project has a new member: Cocoa#. According to their site CocoaSharp is aimed at .Net/Mono developers that want to allow their users to have a native Mac OS X application experience.

According to an US news site “You know the bands - their names, their music, their image - everything is licensed. And if somebody takes a photograph of the band, and that picture ends up on e-bay and somebody’s paying money for it, the band’s not seeing any of that revenue, then they have a problem with it,” Barry Kohlus, with The Backyard, said. So let me get this right, if I take a picture of something and sell it, what’s in the picture should get money for it? If I take a picture of the Eiffel tower, should I pay some Paris agency for that? If I take a picture of someone, should I pay them for it? Hmm…. I’ve been in the newspapers a couple of times, twice on TV and in various sites. Does that mean that all these places should pay me for the picture? Obviously, someone must have their licencing wrong.

A for the geeks variant on how to be creative is available at GapingVoid. I must admit disagree with his way of thinking, but by the sound of it, he’s trying to make people think big and beyond. I’d prefer introducing people to the subtleties. But I’m no teacher, so when I find that someone has done this, I’ll link to him.