---> What free software do you use, Cory, for all this sorting and colourcoding?
Do you use webmail? Or something like Evolution or Thunderbird?

About the difference in a sponsorship by HP or Microsoft:

- one of them is a closed system
- one of them tried to buy Yahoo and already owns quite some parts of the web
- one of them has been sued more than once for forcing their way of making software on others
- one of them does develop drivers for open source systems

A lot of posts on Boingboing are about net neutrality, and how important it is to maintain this. Corporate internet is a reality and certain firms are less open than others. By choosing your sponsors, you as Boingboing are not neutral and innocent..

I for one will not for example work for an oil firm or Microsoft, because of my principles.

It seems to be a thin line that has been crossed. but the line is there (and the ads used to be on one side of Boingboing blog, seems that they have crossed a graphical line too).

I totally love Boingboing, for the information about my rights as a internet user/surfer/content maker. But...

As a totally free sofware mademoiselle, I'm having a hard time with this.

Oof
What was my spelling up to last night!i!

I forgot the n in Berlinnnnn in the link on the Fernsehturm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berlin

Frohe Weihnachten und ein Glückliches neues Jahr :-)

(highschool-German!)

(still: the Fernsehturm is zeee coolest - and try to say it 20 times very fast ;-)

I'got two simple tips for you:

Fernseeturm! Fernseeturm!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Berli
The grandeur of East Germany "There is a visitor platform and a rotating restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 m above the ground, and visibility can reach 42 km (25 miles) on a clear day. The restaurant, which rotates once every twenty minutes, is a few meters above the visitors platform"..

and Frühschtück in Mitte (it's a lovely large breakfast buffet.

Have fun!
w

Hi, Marc,
Nice for you to show how to make a sweet little amp, but could you zoom into your breadboard :-) to let me peek at your breadboard construction!!

Thanks!
w

His name is Gijs Gieskes, he's Dutch (Gijs is a first name) - scrape your throat to pronounce it ;-)

There is also the wonderful novel by Richard Powers called The Echo Maker, where the principal character suffers from Capgras. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Echo_Maker
As always Powers links seemingly unrelated elements, such as Cranes (the birds), migration, memory and recognition, personality (static versus dynamic).

Definitely worth a read!