Friday MLP: Youtube, Summer of Code, software releases

Verisign? Vonage? Verizon? Who's suing YouTube again? Oh, Viacom, that's right. So won't someone please just build Jonathan Coulton his own giant rotating buttocks already?

Should you stop telling your kids they're smart? (via lifehack.org) More Coulton: "What if the best that I can be just isn't good enough?/Isn't it better not to know?"

Ikiwiki is in Google Summer of Code. Yes, it would be nice to have file upload so you could use ikiwiki for podcasts, along with content management, bug tracking, lightweight workflow, and all the other stuff you can use it for.

More GSoC: LinuxBIOS.

I'm glad I don't have to enter some kind of key to install an OS. Buy a pre-loaded machine, enter the key, find out that some key-guesser elsewhere on the planet entered that key before you did, and try to prove that you're the one who paid for your copy. I can come up with other things to do.

GNOME 2.6.18 is out. Better volume control, a new key manager that looks interesting, and "history" for documents that sounds like it could be great but I'd have to try it.

Finally, the fine art of Internet trolling is alive and well.