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April 18 to 24, 2005
Another case of copy
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law going too far - in Ghana, folk artists could be imprisoned, fined, or both...
Thanks to the newly approved Family Entertainment and Copy
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Act, you will get more jail time for videotaping a movie in a theater than for killing somebody...
April 11 to 17, 2005
I enjoy these, being an ex-cube solver myself. In the upper
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is Jessica Fridrich of the popular "Fridrich method"...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Wow, wow. Go to Google Maps, go anywhere and then select the "Satellite" link to the upper
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...
This clip shows how you can steal anything from anybody if you distract them in just the
right
way...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Did you know that Hawaiian is the sole growing indigenous language in the U.S.? Still, there are only about 8,000 Hawaiian-language speakers
right
now...
Only in Hawaii - people made corned beef sushi with green rice for St. Patrick's day. I think it should be a symbol of world unity or something. Note that this type of sushi (musubi) is usually mad...
So far over 10 million creations are under the Creative Commons license, the sensible alternative to traditional copy
right
restrictions...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Did you know that the U.S. is one of only 11 democratic nations in the world that does not give its citizens a Constitutional
right
to vote...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
The industrial chicken catcher. Watch the video... http://www.b
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coop.com/livehaul/c_e-z_catch.ht...
February 7 to 13, 2005
More on the copy
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ing of public space. Note that the city of Chicago is enforcing this...
Podcasting is getting more media attention, along with front page space in USA Today. Here's a good overview of the state of podcasting
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now...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Information on the effort to free the seminal civil
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s documentary "Eyes On The Prize" from intellectual property limbo...
Everybody learned that you no longer have the
right
to publish photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...
One in three high school students think the First Amendment "goes too far" in the
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s it guarantees...
January 17 to 23, 2005
eXeem, the new distributed P2P BitTorrent client, is now in public beta and it works quite well. Sorry, it's only available for Windows
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now...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Library of Congress is putting 30 million pages of copy
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-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
Uh-oh - Diebold has been contracted to secure the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of
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s...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Creative Consequences of the
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s Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers" - the film "Tarnation" may have cost $200 to make, but it cost $500,000 to clear the
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s for it. Stric...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Yes, those same Hart voting machines used in Hawaii caused a few problems in Texas. But here's what gets me... the article's last sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate machines are reliabl...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
The genuinely scary "Wacko Jacko" mask: http://www.f
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catalog.com/Halloween-Masks/Miscellaneous+Masks/36057_Wacko%2DJacko%2DMask.htm...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between technology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopy
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Extension/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshipChart.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Computer visionary Alan Kay "decries the state of computing". He's
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...
The popularity of the iPod is forcing makers of CD copy
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-protection technology to switch formats...
According to European copy
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law, Elvis' first big hit will enter the public domain in 2005, along with a lot of other still-selling music...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Theme of the week: Humanity I just finished watching "The Corporation", an amazing film that traces the roots,
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s, and wrongs of the corporate entity. It ties together politics, global issues...
This has been popular, but I love the quote: "[Defense] firms are about to pitch "a f
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ening new breed of stun gun" to police in America and Europe that has left human
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s groups appalled abou...
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with b
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er, longer-lasting LEDs...
May 17 to 23, 2004
1) We have no
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to complain. "Americans entitled to cheap gas --
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?...
3) If we did Iraq
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, gas would be cheaper...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Topic of the week: More architecture! Architect Michelle Kaufmann is an American hero. She's the first person to finally begin to fulfill Frank Lloyd W
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's dream of cheap quality homes, a goa...
A little bit about the Usonian homes (1936-1959): http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/am483_95/projects/w
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/uson.htm...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Lawrence Lessig's article on why he thinks he lost last year's Supreme Court battle over copy
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terms...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"There has been a dramatic rise in the number of people detained or sentenced for internet-related offences in China, according to the London-based
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s group Amnesty International"...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Note that this "Copy Control Technology" stuff is easy to circumvent if you have the
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software...
December 1 to 7, 2003
A 7-year-old is punished in school for talking about his lesbian moms: http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGay
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s/LesbianGay
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s.cfm?ID=14481&c=10...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Unlike the U.S., Australians "do e-voting
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" by opening up the software running their voting systems to public scrutiny...
September 22, 2003
"The Revenge of the Copy
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Cops...
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
That's
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folks. Using Windows is a threat to national security - by design...
August 4, 2003
Why graphic design (and choosing the
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font) is important:...
July 7, 2003
An article on Estonia, where Internet access was declared a fundamental human
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by law.....