Oh yes. The IRC Rap Battles continue at Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Bridie Linden is in town, and we decided to bitchslap some suckah MCs… Bridie Linden: I got so much chips I swear they call me Hewlett Packard I got so much chips you can have a…

I’m a librarian by ethnicity, if not profession these days, and there’s nothing I like better than free information. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Which is why I like Freebase. Freebase is a free database. Of data. On everything. Everything in Freebase is publicly available, including…

If you are feeling early-adopter-y, you can hop over to mozilla.org and download the new Firefox 3 Beta build. It’s faster, slicker, and has OMG HOT new UI tools that should make your day better. Five Things I love about Firefox 3: Because this is a beta version, most of…

With the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week. Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other…

The nerd social event of the season:

Quality Assurance Internet startup (new job): A team of dedicated professionals Academic library (old job): The screams of our users