Wednesday, March 31, 2004

The good intention is clear, but my take is: they're dividing it up while you read this. The onslaught of of the suits started long ago. The "first wave" was the closing of Napster (I'm talking about the real one here), the "second wave" was SCO in its current form ("We're too stupid to come up with something new, so let's sue the customers.") and the "third wave" are the media moguls ("If they don't want do buy our DRMcrap™, we sue them to do so or buy ourselves some politicians to put this into law.").
Let's face it, the party might be over. Here's the link to the article anyway: "A congress looking to save the Internet" at InfoWorld.
Yes I'm watching the re-runs at the moment ;-)
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While sitting at the laundromat lately, I discovered something very interesting. I am working on a book at the moment and love to write in general, I simply enjoy writing about things, that is.
So while waiting for the wash to dry, sitting and getting immersed into the hum of the running machinery, suddenly ideas popped into my mind. I grabbed my journal and started writing and lo and behold, I drafted about four pages on different subjects for my upcoming book. I was actually disappointed when the dryer finished and I was forced to stop writing (there were people waiting for their turn).
Interestingly this only seems to work if I have to go to the laundromat and not if I go there to write. Don't get me wrong here, I don't suffer writers block or a lack of ideas, but still... I usually write pretty much everywhere, but this state of mind with ideas flowing like a river was something different compared to the usual rush of ideas.
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Artist Paints Paleogeek Fantasies. Alexis Rockman paints like Rembrandt and thinks like Darwin. He doesn't just make art -- he remakes natural history. By Steve Fishman from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
I always wondered why there aren't more artist doing things like that.
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My 'blogroll.opml' doesn't seem to refresh. I'm working on it, sorry.
[update] Now it seems to work, but really slow.
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