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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

Why The Copyright Debate Over Digital Files Is So Important. Larry Lessig on Copy-protecting Aristotle : " 'I have bought a number of eBooks, including Aristotle’s Politics. Aristotle’s Politics, of course, was never copyrighted, but the Adobe eBook reader forbids me from printing any pages of the book because the permissions have been set to disable any printing. If I try to interfere with those permissions .. if I write a bit of code to disable the limitations that forbid me from printing Aristotle’s Politics ... [The Shifted Librarian] 11:32:21 PM  Permalink  comment []

Columnists: OS X vs. Linux, Apple's future [The Macintosh News Network] 11:31:40 PM  Permalink  comment []

Free Literary Map. "Free Literary Map Literary Landmark Locator. Sure, all those public restroom databases are great, but wouldn't a map like this be cool on your PDA? Maybe add library locations?" [ Library Techlog ] Especially if you had a GPS-enabled PDA.... [The Shifted Librarian] 11:31:24 PM  Permalink  comment []

Tilt!. Internet Pinball Database " 'The Internet Pinball Database is the most comprehensive list of pinball machines that have been manufactured. It currently contains information on more than 4000 different machines, and includes photographs of well over a third of the games.' LS Thoughts - First Gary's RSS feed hits the library blog world, now this!! Not only can you search this database, but there is an advanced search form and you can even download the whole ... [The Shifted Librarian] 11:31:05 PM  Permalink  comment []

Star's 'Wink' May Be Clue to Creation of Planets. A young star far away in the galaxy is winking in a regular pattern that astronomers say is unlike anything seen before. By John Noble Wilford. [New York Times: Science] 11:30:49 PM  Permalink  comment []

Music piracy doesn't hurt record industry at all Smart analysis by Michael Fraase about music downloading, economics, and the record industry. Highly recommended. The Grateful Dead were among the first to figure it out more than 30 years ago. Authorize your fans to trade non-commercial copies of your performances. Encourage them even. What goes around comes around and you’ll make millions on their interest and loyalty. You just won’t sell that many commercial recordings. Or maybe you will. Either way, you’ll have to work your butt off touring. 4:34:58 PM  Permalink  comment []

Cat Boxing There just isn't enough cute in the world, so here's cat boxing. [Via BlogDex] 4:21:37 PM  Permalink  comment []

Townes Van Zandt Townes Without Pity: The Battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy (The Austin Chronical) Take one excellent, but not commercially successful songwriter who drank himself to death, a record publisher who stuck with him (but never paid him, for maybe good reason), several wifes and sets of children, and you have a troubled and uncertain legacy. There's no right or wrong that I can see here, just, as Mike Britten said, enough sadness for one of his songs. A really interesting story. 4:18:20 PM  Permalink  comment []

War of the Worlds From GoodShit, a link to his page showing book covers from 110 editions of War of the Worlds. Nicely done. 8:03:53 AM  Permalink  comment []

Another Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered. Astronomers announced Tuesday the discovery of an extrasolar planet similar to Jupiter, the second such... [spacetoday.net] 7:54:27 AM  Permalink  comment []

2002 Webbies Though I've seen many of these, there are a lot I haven't checked out yet. 7:53:17 AM  Permalink  comment []

The Fourth Amendment  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Seems pretty straightforward to me.   7:45:44 AM  Permalink  comment []

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