A Cheap Space Documentary, which is better than some expensive space documentaries I've seen.

Link props to juliebeth

5:28:32 PM     leave/read comments []

"I have been feeling a little guilty about causing so many people out there to have nightmares, depression and sickness from my little joke. The reaction of people word wide has blown me away. I never intended for such a thing to happen."

5:20:47 PM    

From the looks of the guy in the corner, things don't smell very good at all.

12:02:33 PM     leave/read comments []

Oligoplies and copyrights

An article in a recent New York Times Magazine ("The Tyranny of Copyright," 1/25/2004) explores the way in which big companies use copyright laws as a weapon to control mind space on the market and threaten competition, criticism, or even reportage.

[Oligopoly Watch]

US copyright law is increasingly used to strangle the free exchange of information and move creativity into corporate-controlled veal pens of thought and expression, and DRM schemes only look to accelerate this trend.

The result has been almost no work entering the public domain. Even worse has been the mad scramble by entities like music companies, photo archives, and book publishers to snatch up the rights of anything they can get their hands on. In addition, states the article.

The law has also extended the scope of copyright protection, creating what critics have called a "paracopyright," which prohibits not only duplicating protected material but in some cases even gaining access to it in the first place.

You can't fight back, if you don't know you're being screwed.

11:24:14 AM     leave/read comments []

Speaking of searching the archives, I found my first ever online photo gallery.

Ah, 1996.

10:46:05 AM     leave/read comments []

I've added the ability to search my weblog's archives via Google search. Natch:

It's in my sidebar, just down a bit from the list of fine blogs.

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