Thursday, October 03, 2002

Feeling all freaked out and like you're living in the X-files (thanks Ron), air your anger at Angrydot. The "chief editor" (strange important sounding title for an anarchist) sums his anger up as follows: class consciousness on the part of the people, and a fundamental moral indignation at their displacement and stratification. This "fundamental moral indignation" is not some abstract concept that can be described through systems, rules, boxes, classifications, lists, etc.. It is a spiritual thing. It is a part of your soul. It is a platonic warmth - a solidarity, a unity. Wow - I just thought I felt annoyed - but it's soul man. 10:31:02 AM

Seems they're tinkering with the copyright laws in Oz as well. And, as the saying goes, where there's a will there's a loophole, on the web, where there's copyright debate there's a blog. 10:05:26 AM

Today I designed a typeface - well not quite, I was number 7000 + who contributed to an online collaborative typeface design process on the typophile site. Quite a funky, well-coded site full of little tricks and trucs. Typophile is a site for free and open typographic development and forums etc. and I read an interesting article there about the rights and wrongs of it all. Seems that US copyright laws don't protect typefaces - Bembo would be turning in his grave. I thought US copyright and patent laws protected everything down to the washer in the kitchen sink - why is typography not considered worthy of protection? 9:50:11 AM

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren represents San Jose and has introduced a bill designed to protect consumer rights in the great copyright debate - http://www.house.gov/lofgren/press/107press/021002_release.htm 9:22:38 AM