Just a gratuitous link since I’ve read all this stuff already, but Cory Doctorow blew me away when I first read Ownz0red on Salon. See the rest of this post for links to many of his stories. Cory operates on the Creative Commons license (thanks to a generous publisher) and his work is freely downloadable, […]
Who knew? A judge ruled that Monotori Kishi, a Japanese manga writer, violated a 1957 law against distributing obscene literature. The weird thing is that in Japan, a ton of the stuff on the streets is manga, and most of its borderline porn anyway. This is not something people go in the backroom for, it’s […]
Of all the things that scare me, this is right up there. The RIAA, defenders of one of the last citadels of whorish consumerism cum virtual monopoly, have taken to the streets with paramilitary elements in order to enforce, uhm, the rights of their artists. *cough* RIAA adopts paramilitary garb for parking lot bust Excuse […]
IT’S OBVIOUSLY TIME to start publishing the Journal of Critical Cyberspace Studies. Hey, maybe we already are.
A while back, you could order wine from Wine.com and have it shipped right to you. This is an awesome thing. Then, politics got in the way, and you couldn’t ship to Michigan. But now…. … they’re back! We think… we haven’t actually tried to order yet, but the website states that they will, in […]
Saw this piece on USATODAY at lunch… “If you want to send a message, call Western Union,” said Hollywood pioneer Samuel Goldwyn to filmmakers and stars who sought to use their movie projects to advance some political agenda. Can anyone pinpoint the moment in Hollywood (or New York, for that matter), when celebrities thought that […]
Animal shelters must deal with the same apartment complexes over and over and over. Why is it that they can’t say, oh I don’t know, make a LIST of the places that accepts what pets and which ones don’t. I can’t believe we have to wait until Monday for them to verify that our apartments […]
If there’s nothing that irks me more, it’s the idiots in the music/technology/political/religious debate surrounding music and music/file sharing. After reading this, I won’t buy an HP or Compaq product for a long time. Link
So, we’ve been thinking about a pet for while. After breakfast this morning, our usual routine of tea and TV took its usual turn: to Animal Planet. Every Saturday at 9am, they show “Breed All About It”. Why do I know this? You know why… every Saturday at 9am, it’s on my TV. And the […]
This is all over the place by now, but this guy really took some academics to task over how they survive in academia.. good for him. Link