links for 2007-06-01
- Nuclear Capable Nations Map not to indicate non-nuclear-capable nations (tags: nuclear nations visiref)
- FSF – FSF Releases “Last Call” Draft of GPLv3 “The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world’s most widely used free software license. “ (tags: fsf gpl gpl-3)
- Boing Boing: US makes Korea eliminate fair use “Korea has just finished negotiating a free trade agreement with the US that is a complete disaster on copyright. Korea has agreed to give up all fair use to copyrighted works” (tags: notes-towards-free-culture ip-maximalism free-trade-agreement us korea)
- There’s Something in the Woods…: Do Werewolves Roam The Woods Of England? “the latest wave of British werewolf sightings” (tags: werewolves sightings uk contemporary)
- 20th WCP: Conceivability Arguments or the Revenge of the Zombies “In this paper I examine and refute the new conceivability arguments due to Frank Jackson and David Chalmers.” (tags: philosophy zombies refutation)
- Alexius Meinong’s Theory of Objects “One of the most influential thinkers of ontology at the beginning of our century was the Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong, Ritter von Handschuchsheim. His best known conception deals, among other things, with objects that do not exist.” (tags: meinong ontology imaginary-objects)
- Alexius Meinong – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Meinong posits that “existence” is merely a property of an object, just as color or mass might be a property. Thus, according to Meinong, a figure such as Sherlock Holmes would lack the property of existence, just as Sherlock Holmes lacks the property of (tags: meinong philosophy ontology imaginary-objects)
- Zombies versus Materialists: The Battle for Conceivability Nice sauce-for-the-gander refutation of Philosophical Zombies. (tags: philosophy zombies refutation)
- Jacques Lacan’s Diagrams “Here are the diagrams used by Jacques Lacan in Les Écrits.” (tags: lacan diagrams visiref)
- The cult of Lacan: Freud, Lacan and the mirror-stage “The Lacan phenomenon is a bizarre one. “ (tags: lacan fisking deconstruction)
- Haber’s Art Reviews: Who Is Jacques Lacan? “Students were spellbound, owing to the standard ingredients of cult status”ideas and charisma…” (tags: lacan fisking deconstruction)
- The Werewolves of Britain by Nick Redfern “one of the weirdest things to cross my path was the British werewolf” (tags: uk werewolves)
- Cryptomundo.com » The Werewolves of Britain More UK werewolf cases (tags: uk werewolves)
- urban typologies image mosaic – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics “a collection of image mosaics that visually compare peculiar mundane objects in urban space” (tags: urban taxonomy visiref)
- [Chris Ashley: WYSIWYG](http://chambersgallery.org/upcoming.ht ml) A show of Chris Ashley’s excellent art. (tags: chris-ashley art show html)
- O’Reilly Radar > Free Downloads vs. Sales: A Publishing Case Study “More than 180,000 copies were downloaded from Jeremy’s mirror (which is one of five!), yet the book has still been quite successful, selling almost 19,000 copies in a year and a half.” (tags: notes-towards-free-culture free-culture economics case-study)
- Boing Boing: Graffiti report cards “Here’s a PDF of a “graffiti report card” that you can fill out and place next to graffiti in your neighborhood. “ (tags: grafitti satire sticker)