Interesting Techcrunch article about aboutus.org, the wiki about every domain on the Internet. It was started by Ray King, an extremely nice guy that we've met at a couple of Wiki events, and it seems to be doing really well. I guess he just closed an initial round of investments, which is great.
There was an article about Aboutus in the Portland Business Journal. Although I don't think it's a "potential Google" (!), as the reporter does (gotta love the home town crowd), Aboutus is a neat idea and it's a good group of people, too.
tags: aboutus ray king techcrunch portland wiki
Puck Quebecois
Speaking of things that are rocking, I just got an invite to Le Puck Quebecois. It's the Montreal tournament of the Hocky Association of the Arts, a group of artists and musicians nationwide who love to play hockey against each other.
The organizer is Jeff Waye of Ninjatune, who combines in one person an unhealthy obsession with music with an unhealthy addiction to hockey. It should be a really fun amateur hockey tournament. All proceeds go to charity, of course.
tags: hockey jeff waye ninjatune montreal tournament
Not only but also
Next week, 30 Brumaire, (or 22 November for those of you who need some math help) there's a meeting of MSLUG, the Montreal Scheme/Lisp Users Group. I have get to get out to an MSLUG meeting, but I think this one will be my first. It's admirable that the group has pulled off so many meetings in the last 3 years.
tags: montreal scheme mslug meeting
Lenny
So, at the bottom of this release message, we get the name of the post-etch Debian release: Lenny. Is Debian now using codenames from The Simpsons? I think Lenny Leonard is as nice as the next guy, but we're still going through the minor characters in Toy Story.
I've scoured the Toy Story credits and Toy Story 2 credits, and "Lenny" is the name of the little binoculars character, which gets about 12 seconds of screen time, if I remember correctly. Man, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this naming convention.
tags: lenny debian binoculars next release
Hey Doc!
Don Marti's intro to OpenID for Doc Searls is cracking me up. I'd mentioned in my articles for LinuxWorld last week that I'd written an OpenID extension for MediaWiki, and I guess now Doc wants to know how to use it.
tags: don marti doc searls openid wikitravel