February 2011
21 posts
“This week I’m going to switch gears a little and declare an enemy for all...”
– Make: Online » Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators
“Marguerite Humeau, attempts to ressuscitate the sound of extinct animals by...”
– The rebirth of prehistoric creatures - we make money not art
“Seriously, people, give it up; you’re tilting at windmills. No, it’s worse than...”
– This is why trying to prevent book piracy is utterly futile | Blog | Futurismic
“We fully accept that the artistic community might classify Kelley’s garden...”
– From the court’s ruling on Chapman Kelley v Chicago Park District.
Via Millennium Park Garden Deemed Not Copyrightable, Because Gardens Are Not Authored | Techdirt
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“An issue of PC Pro with around 150 separate articles, and 100 photos would...”
– The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle | PC Pro blog
“The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The...”
– U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’ | TorrentFreak
“Many of Shakespeare’s most famous and beloved plays, written in the late...”
– FAIR Blog » Would the Bard Have Survived U.S. Copyright Law?
WatchGothic Cathedral Play Set Time Lapse Video - MakerBot Industries
Radio Berkman 173: The Portrait of the... →
Fun episode of Radio Berkman, with Amanda Palmer and Childish Gambino/mc DJ/Don Glover.
“I like to buy music. I buy it from emusic (where I pay $23/month for use it or...”
– A VC: Anatomy Of A Pirate
“You probably don’t realize, unless you actually work on a software project laden...”
– In Praise Of Piracy
“Why would movies be such a popular illegitimate download? It doesn’t take...”
– Faster Forward - Movie-industry study: Unauthorized video sharing shrinks if viewers have legal options
Visualization of broadband performance using M-Lab... →
These visualizations present a comparison of median upload and download speeds across countries, states and cities within a particular month. These charts were created by a team at Google, using M-Lab’s publicly available NDT data analyzed using Google’s BigQuery. All data and analysis tools are publicly available. A detailed description of how the speed values are computed is available...
“And even though Cargo Runners has yet to hit the App Store, the early buzz...”
– Video games breathe new life into pinball, board games
“They’re trying to legislate or order the impossible.”
– The PS3 Hack Injunction Shows The Problems Of Judges Who Don’t Understand Technology | Techdirt
