Wednesday, July 31, 2002

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) 8:30:05 PM    comment [] Viewing Japanese Prints Domo Arigato, John Fiorillo, for this obvious labor of love. [via metafilter] 4:21:26 PM    comment [] Stupid Net   "Today everybody from George Bush to Mike Powell to the wise executives of Silicon Valley are talking about broadband, broadband, broadband. But broadband without real internetworking, without the pure, stupid, end-to-end Internet, will be as useful as a television that can order pizza. I'd rather have the Internet over a plain-old dial-up connection than broadband with some form of pseudo-internetworking. So if you hear that somebody is going to "enhance" the Internet -- to make it more efficient, to Pay the Musicians, to Protect the Children, to thwart hackers, to enhance Homeland Security, to find Osama, or whatever -- this is almost certainly propaganda from the powerful businesses that are threatened by the Internet. Remember that the Internet became the success it is today -- and the threat that it is to existing telcos -- because it is a Stupid Network, an end-to-end network." [David S. Isenberg,  Smart Letter #74 via Corey Doctorow over at boingboing.net] 2:58:05 PM    comment [] "...These legislative initiatives aren't just about copyright. They're about building a regime that's hostile to content that comes from anyone other than Big Media suppliers. That's because their real fear isn't copied Britney Spears CDs -- it's that people will abandon the crap they're selling for works by independent artists, and cut out the middlemen..." [Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com] via [The Shifted Librarian] 12:24:17 AM    comment []

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