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“The SCO Group Files Chapter 11”

“Well, the search is on hold for now. At least until either a) Michael is located or b) we can recruit someone else to help (any offers gratefully received).”

“The Flea’s ongoing commitment to the explication of goth culture finds new heuristic promise in the form of these video illustrations.”

“If you can find and buy our legal CDs, I express my thanks for your support. If you cannot find it, I think that downloading from the Internet is a more acceptable option than buying pirated CDs”

“market sectors depending on copyright’s limitations and exceptions (like fair use) represent one-sixth of the GDP of the US. CCIA’s study found that these industries contributed $2.2 trillion to the economy and accounted for more than 17 million jobs. In

“stage magicians protect the secrets behind their tricks, and continue to come up with great new ideas, without getting caught up in the insanity of intellectual property law” But they are a closed social network…

“I like this advice for the obvious reason (encouraging CC licensing, especially under a liberal CC license), but the remarkable thing is that following this “Search Engine Optimization” advice contributes to the greater good.”

Every good comedy needs a blooper reel at the end.

“I’ve decided to put up my own Common Lisp examples”

“A growing collective of global “hackers” as they're called are dismantling products and re-aligning the parts as they see fit.”

CC find a forty year old example of an alternative licence.

“This “contract” creates a you that is already guilty. And you didn’t even ask for this thing to show up at your door!”

How to write good emails.

“when complete, the BBC will put the IPR of Olinda under an attribution license–the equivalent of a BSD or Creative Commons Attribution. “

A network for conceptual artists in the UK.

“There are few questions that suck the joy out of a room faster than this one:

“What good is it?””

Algorithmic psychogeography.

GPS trace of a psychogeographic walk.

“programming .walk for dummies”

Does what it says on the tin.

“Here is a map of East Dulwich Estate, yet again absent from most maps. ” OpenStreetMap wins again.

One commenter says: “Nice piece. I recognise the dodgy maths from my days writing financial training for an e-learning company. The equation that popped up over and over was the dividend discount formula”

“The recipe and branding of FREE BEER is published under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-shareAlike2.5).”

“Mighty impressive considering that it's Ford, and the first time a global brand is using a Creative Commons open license on a commercial media project. But not surpising, since the mastermind behind the idea was David Bausola of Zero Influence.”

The death of incidental inclusion.

“Free the church!”

“So explain in your own words how WhereAreTheJoneses’ works?” via zeroinfluencer

“Prism — an astroturf organization established by science publishers to discredit free open access journals — has been caught using a bunch of infringing Getty images”

“One of the many tragedies of the conventional economic mind is the grip that the “tragedy of the commons” has upon it. “

“I call this the entertainment economy.” or the attention economy. An interesting philosophical thought experiment about a post-scarcity world.

A masterful deconstruction of Fisk’s scarily credulous 9/11 conspiracy article.