links for 2007-05-11
- Boing Boing: India trying to save the world from yoga patents “Western governments are granting patents, trademarks, and copyrights over yoga to con-artists who claim to have invented the millennia-old practice. The Indian government is retaliating by publishing a giant, multi-lingual database of yoga-stuff” (tags: free-culture ip-maximalism non-western)
- Boing Boing: BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM “The BBC Trust — the organisation that oversees the BBC’s operations — has driven another nail into the BBC’s relevancy for the 21st century today by giving the broadcaster permission to use DRM on its online offerings.” (tags: bbc idiots drm notes-towards-free-culture free-culture sell-out ip-maximalism)
- Pwned laughter « Zero influence “Whilst I've been working on a longer text about the relationship between agile software development and comedy, I spotted this clip via Kottke.” (tags: dave-bausola laughter blog-entry)
- Boing Boing: Mathematics of botanical beauty “ Support Bloggers’ Rights! Support Bloggers’ Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting no (tags: aesthetics geometry golden-section generative-art)