links for 2006-10-11
- ABC News: Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid “Mexico’s Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.” (tags: space art)
- Boing Boing: CC licensed “FAKE ROLEX” sculpture design NC (sigh…) but still funny. (tags: nc-sa-2.0 fake ip fab)
- Boing Boing: Iceweasel, a free-as-in-speech version of Firefox Debian Legal show they understand trademark law even less than DRM. If that is possible (tags: debian idiocy funny trademarks freedom-of-expression)
- Boing Boing: Panicked chefs propose copyrighted food “Megnut food blog points to a moral panic among chefs reacting to plagiarism of their recipes and presentation — cooks who propose that they should be able to copyright food. Not that they should have a remedy for plagiarism, but that ways of preparing f (tags: ip-maximalism food notes-towards-free-culture)
- Sprites mods – Electronic Stamp – Intro, the big idea A handheld inkhet printer mod. Very cool. (tags: inkjet handheld printing hardware hacking)
- NBC10.com – Education – Art Teacher Loses Job After Kids See Nude Sculpture “An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.” (tags: idiocy censorship art education)
- The Long Zoom – New York Times “Our own defining view is what you might call the long zoom” (tags: spore aesthetics games)
- Main Page – WikiMusicGuide “The music fan site that anyone can edit.” (tags: by-sa music wiki free-culture)
- Disney-ABC: “We understand piracy now as a business model” “Now comes news from Disney-ABC that content producers have had a revelation: instead of simply trying to squash piracy, it might be more productive to understand and compete with it.” (tags: disney media piracy business-model online)
- Set-Top Cop: TiVo’s “self-destruct button” destructs “By including Macrovision with its products, TiVo is designing a product that is intended to control its owner and treat its owner (TiVo’s customer) as an attacker.” (tags: notes-towards-free-culture drm)