After a long delay, we’re finally allowed to board the plane. As we wait in line, the businessman in front of me takes out his phone and makes a call. “Hi, honey,” he says, apparentl...
In 1972, the philosopher Peter Singer proposed a simple thought experiment: Imagine you’re on your way to work and you come across a child drowning in a shallow pond. You’re tall enough th...
The wonderful Michael Geist has a site to facilitate organizing and thought around “the first Canadian public consultation on copyright policy since 2001.”
So you’re likely not to recognize the term — in all caps, PACER — but if you do, the amazing sorts at the Stanford Law Library are trying hard to organize attention to getting this e...
Dave Wiley has an interesting idea he calls unmixing (in contrast to remixing), which he demonstrates with the first bit of REMIX. Basically, using Yahoo’s BOSS, he reassociates every three word...
Five-year old Felix’s mom, Kierstin, sent me this image a bit ago. “I thought you would get a laugh out of these photos where your Remix became a crucial supporting wall for a Medieval Cas...
So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal, I penned my first (wildly and embarrassingly defensive) missive to Dave. Some 1753 e...
Do you ever eavesdrop on random people? At the office, on the subway, in a park — if you’re quiet, you can listen to people chat. If you do, you quickly find that, for the most part, they ...
Charlie Brooker begins his recent BBC4 show Newswipe with this speech. Unfortunately, the show doesn’t quite live up to these ambitions, being basically a version of Charlie Brooker’s Scre...
