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Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, is mean solar time at the observatory at Greenwich. “GMT” is also often used, especially by British media, to refer to winter civil time in the UK, or to indicate times for events outside Britain. I’ve even seen it be used as shorthand for UK civil time in the summer. [...]

(Sorry for the extra space.) The revolution will be Vined — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 8, 2013 Let’s end the tyranny of false scarcity: thepiratebay.se/torrent/515118… — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 7, 2013 What we need is an Etsy for democracy. — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 7, 2013 Co-opting is the new mansplaining [...]

A lot of reports about Aaron’s criminal case have centered around reports that the maximum sentence for his alleged crimes was 50 years (in the superceding indictment). It’s also been reported that the prosecutor was actually going to seek 7 years if he went to trial, and that he would likely get close to that [...]

I woke up this morning to a direct message from Bøtter telling me that Aaron died and that his last tweet was to me. Aaron’s work was a great inspiration and I will miss him. I don’t really have much else to say today, but reading all that’s been written today only serves to remind [...]

It’s still possible that Julian Assange will spend the rest of his life, or maybe just 15 years, in Flat 3B. But that’s no fun. It’s been suggested that even if he can get into a diplomatic car, the British can arrest him when he leaves the car to board a plane for Quito. However, [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion out there about Readability’s original plan to distribute 70% of what the users paid to publishers, how much unclaimed money that plan ended up with, and whether Flattr solves that problem. One aspect that hasn’t been sufficiently clear is their different methods of allocating money. Under Readability’s now abandoned [...]

The MTA currently runs 3 Select Bus Service routes in New York City: M34/M34A SBS, Bx12 SBS and M15 SBS. They also have non-SBS versions of these routes, so make sure you take the correct bus. Select Bus Service buses light up in blue. The SBS and non-SBS buses stop at different stops. Sometimes they [...]

From a James Fallows correspondent: Medieval Latin is a much simpler form of Latin than classical, Roman Latin because it was everyone’s second language. Over centuries, Irish, Italians, and Norwegians all speaking to one another in the same language simplified and streamlined it, to make it easier for everyone to understand. It was a working [...]

Last month Felix Salmon urged people not to donate to Japan in the wake of the earthquake, and if you do wish to do something, to make unrestricted donations to major charities like MSF. You should then trust MSF to allocate donations to countries and particular causes and to deliver help effectively or partner with [...]