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For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.
Combining the cuteness of LOLCODE and the cuddliness of Python
There is no other medium that produces so pure a cultural segregation as video games, so clean-cut a division between the audience and the non-audience.
The things that are meant to make you feel more connected today often turn out to be insubstantial time sinks — empty, programmatic encouragements to groom and refine your personality while sitting alone at a screen.
by Lawrence Lessig
retrospective on restriction management systems
ACTA: criminalising the internet
violet blue on online communication and self-esteem
the story of a japanese bbs
Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange
A nova directora sucede a Guta Moura Guedes
Paulo Coelho is a pirate too
Anti-Nokia anger in Germany for closing a factory is growing with politicians publicly ditching the firm's phones and joining calls for a national boycott in Europe's largest economy.
Far too many chess players have died for us to stop hacking for hack’s sake.
nifty IRC moderation system
on classic and contemporary music
lessig's book is now free!
all hail the pirate party!
down-to-earth evangelism
the beautiful rhetorics of usenet! "If you're really bored, a fun game to play is Six Degrees of Godwin. Take a topic - any topic - and see how quickly you can relate it to Nazis using legitimate topic drift methods."
porn for girls by girls (SFW)
why the web design recruitment industry got it wrong; the alternatives presented are a bit too design-ish for my tastes (why can't you just design it without all the bling?), but some progress on the whole web2.0 thing nonetheless
news media, social network moguls and design critics are getting it all wrong
by ESR
fascinating read on a dissenting view debunking homeopathy
We are nauseated by the despicable sloth that, ever since the 1970's, has let our programmers survive only through an incessant reprogramming of the glories of the past.
creative people must be stopped