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	<link>http://understandinglimited.com</link>
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		<title>Moglen on GPL business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eben Moglen posted an interesting article about the Oracle-MySQL merger, and discusses why enforcing the GPL with MySQL is good business for Oracle. 
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2010/01/08/moglen-oracle-mysql/</link>
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		<title>Mike Ruppert&#8217;s Collapse movie out soon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The film about Mike Ruppert, &#8220;Collapse,&#8221; is hitting the cinemas next week, and I&#8217;m excited as I&#8217;ve been a big fan of his work for years. Here is part one and part two of a keynote speech in 2005. 
31m20s in the 2nd part is the quote featured in the film trailer. I suggest watching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/10/31/mike-rupperts-collapse-movie-out-soon/</link>
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		<title>Closed For Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding Limited is no longer taking on new clients or projects. 
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/10/05/closed-for-business/</link>
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		<title>FontForge used in Toyota Ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente just tipped me off to the IQ font
Designers Pierre And Damien strapped professional race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt in an iQ car, set him loose beneath a camera and custom software built by Zach Lieberman, and then proceeded to create a faster take on fonts.
Ana wrote, &#8220;The interesting thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/21/fontforge-toyota/</link>
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		<title>Type Designer says naked fonts are the path to quality web type</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Always thoughtful David B?ezina just posted a very important comment on the I Love Typography blog post attempting to summarise the web fonts issue:
First of all, John thank you for the summary! It was much needed. I find it actually very useful that it did spark some disagreement. It helped me to revise some questions/answers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/20/naked-fonts-equal-quality/</link>
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		<title>IE market share collapsing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch reports that IE&#8217;s market share collapsed this year, from 3/4 to 1/2! 
Yay.
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/15/ie-market-share-collapsing/</link>
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		<title>Ruppert&#8217;s letter from President Carter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice:

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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/09/rupperts-letter-from-president-carter/</link>
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		<title>Cantarell: First remix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I published Cantarell on Monday, and here at Wednesday I have my first remix :-)

I hope Pierre will publish the outlines soon :-)
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/08/cantarell-first-remix/</link>
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		<title>Behadad on the free software Text Rendering stack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicolas Mailhot noted on the fedora font list that Behdad Esfabod has published a quick summary of the Text Rendering stack state - slides and text.
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/06/free-text-rendering-explained/</link>
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		<title>Hitler Jokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always a sucker for teenage humor:



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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/07/01/hitler-jokes/</link>
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		<title>Web Fonts Arrive! Firefox 3.5 is out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But we need not wait for epiphanies from those whose paycheck depends on them not having any.&#8221;
- Dmitri Orlov
Firefox 3.5 is out, and supports web fonts! Grab it from getfirefox.com and tell your friends :-)
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/06/30/web-fonts-arrive-ff3-5/</link>
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		<title>The Core of the Copyfight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on the PHD-DESIGN mailing list, Lars Albinsson asked, &#8220;In Sweden there is a huge debate on copyrights vs sharing on the Internet. (Swedes managed to both start the Pirate Bay, allegedly the leading peer-to-peer service, as well as introduce very strong regulatory legislation against it.) The trail of the pirate bay people this spring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/06/26/copyfight/</link>
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		<title>Print is dying fast, I suspect collapse psychology afoot.</title>
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TechCrunch reports that the newspaper industry has had an unprecedented drop in revenues in the first quarter of this year. 
Print is dying fast. I wouldn&#8217;t be suprised if they pretend everything is okay and then one day just turn off the presses; that&#8217;s the pattern of collapse
I&#8217;m reminded of Mish: &#8220;Things that can&#8217;t happen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/06/04/print-is-dying-fast-i-suspect-collapse-psychology-afoot/</link>
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		<title>New Interview with Mike Ruppert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to see this new interview with Mike Ruppert about his new book, &#8220;A Presidential Energy Policy.&#8221;
China is implementing his Presidential Point #1 - Double the national oil reserve storage, because we are post peak - and PetroChina is now the largest company in the world.
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/28/new-interview-with-mike-ruppert/</link>
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		<title>Moblin 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel&#8217;s distribution of GNU/Linux, Moblin, is very nice:


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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/27/moblin-20/</link>
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		<title>Off the cliff we go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Oil Drum  just posted an excellent up-to-date set of graphics on oil decline rates, and even at 3.4% this does not look good at all; that mean&#8217;s we&#8217;ll have half the liquid fuel we do today in 20 years time.

My gut feeling is that the rate of decline will accelerate, not float down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/23/off-the-cliff-we-go/</link>
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		<title>UK Government Approves DRM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I signed a petition to the UK Prime Minster&#8217;s office against DRM, and a response came back today. Not good and containing plenty of nonsense, sadly. 
The petition was:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to investigate the legality and fairness of DRM, specifically SecuROM. With more and more consumers being effectively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/19/uk-government-approves-drm/</link>
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		<title>Guardian Editor in Chief: &#8220;Newspapers are going to die&#8221;</title>
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Alan Rusbridger, Guardian Editor in Chief, on the Future of Journalism: Bloggers&#8217; comments make journalists&#8217; articles &#8220;look quite silly.&#8221; &#8220;Newspapers are going to die&#8221; &#8220;Its a broken model, the victorian model of distribution&#8221; &#8220;blurring the distinction between journalist and reader &#8230; acknowledge they bring so much, create a community around your journalistic core&#8221; &#8220;we look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/14/guardian-editor-in-chief-newspapers-are-going-to-die/</link>
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		<title>How to force reading EULAs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The LGM2009 inGIMP talk is awesome - the second half about &#8220;arresting graphic design&#8221; was really smart: they figured out how to influence people to actually bother reading EULAs :-)
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/07/how-to-force-reading-eulas/</link>
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		<title>2009-03-07 John Taylor Gatto on &#8220;Open Source Education&#8221;</title>
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John Taylor Gatto made a speech on the 7th of March this year, and the video from homelandstupidity.us is embedded above. It is also available to buy on DVD from booktv.org and you can download the 700Mb FLV video direct (and play it using the free software VLC). 
I also recently found an audio recording [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/01/gatto-march-2009/</link>
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		<title>Fun: Univers Revolved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting way of checking the curves in a typeface:

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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/05/01/univers-revolved/</link>
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		<title>Can anyone into Libre Fonts attend Open Translation Tools 2009?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open Translation Tools 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, Holland from 22-24 June, 2009.
It will run alongside an Open Translation Book Sprint to produce a free book about the tools and best practices of Open Translation, with FLOSSManuals.net.
In 2007 I and Alex Prokoudine attended the wonderful Open Translation Tools event in Croatia, and my flights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/04/30/fonts-at-ott09-please/</link>
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		<title>Swine Flu in North America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mish reports that Swine Flu has gone to &#8216;emergency&#8217; status, while Mike Ruppert suggests this will be the first wave of peak oil die off.
And I&#8217;m off to North America in a few weeks. Great. Although Monreal is the opposite side to the Mexican coastline, the New York connection is not good.
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/04/26/swine-flu-in-north-america/</link>
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		<title>Web fonts starts bubbling merrily: &#8220;Fuck the foundries&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Pilgrim is an important software freedom advocate, famous for his blog posts about switching from Mac OS X to GNU/Linux (nb Gruber&#8217;s reply) and from MovableType to WordPress. So I&#8217;m happy to see him championing web fonts, since this little feature of CSS3 that is going to ship in all major browsers this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/04/21/pilgrim-on-web-fonts/</link>
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		<title>Mike Ruppert&#8217;s Energy Policy Book: May 1st</title>
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Mike Ruppert&#8217;s new book, &#8220;A Presidential Energy Policy,&#8221; is out on May 1st.
This will be followed by a new documentary about his work from the guys who did The Yes Men, which was good: Collapse
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		<link>http://understandinglimited.com/2009/04/18/mike-rupperts-energy-policy-book-may-1st/</link>
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