Musings on law, tech, chess & other topics by a geek

ACLU is stepping on Big Brother’s toes again, this time by informing bus riders their civil rights with an ads on buses that inform riders of their rights. Although this time Big Brother is not taking it quietly, they are fighting back with a propaganda ad aimed at convincing you to give up your rights. Here are the dueling public service announcements:

The ACLU wants you to “Know Your Rights” while the Republicans want you to believe that “Cooperation is always better then confrontation!” If you rights are not worth fighting for what is?  In a state that has a history of internment camps, I am not sure the Republicans could pick a worse slogan.

ACLU sign article in the Peninsula Daily News
Republican’s Big Brother sign article in the Peninsula Daily News

I often use Slide Share to post slides from talks. This is my fist time trying Google Docs. Here is how the slides turned out:

Over all I think slide share has a much better interface for sharing slides. I like the community aspects of Slide Share. The only advantage I see to using Google is the ablity to easily edit the slides. Although I am not seeing a quick way to simplely export the slides without going through Google docs.