Stung Eye

A mashup from another dimension. Download the entire album. [via]

Don’t tell me wonderful appropriation art like this should be illegal. Strong copyright laws already exist in Canada. Yes, the Internet changes the game. Play ball fools. Down with the suppression of innovation.

Speaking of the ACTA, The University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic filed an access to information request on the Canadian involvement in this agreement but received only a document stating the title of the agreement, with everything else blacked out. source

Mark Pilgrim explains his use of the GNU Free Documentation License for his books. The FDL explicitly gives anyone the right to publish the material themselves, which is exactly what one woman recently did much to the horror of the publisher Apress.

A cafe in Kashiwa Japan were you order for the next person in line, and receive what was ordered by the person in front of you.

The rules:

• Let’s treat the next person. What to treat them with? It’s your choice.
• Even if it’s a group of friends or a family, please form a single-file line. Also, you can’t buy twice in a row.
• Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, let’s quietly give it to another while saying, “It’s my treat…”)
• Let’s say “Thank You! (Gochihosama)” if you find the person with your Ogori cafe card.

“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.”

The on-going conversation in the comments is also worth a read.

“The library will contain only books and paper journals. It will not have public access computer terminals. It will have a silent reading room, as well as a collaborative study room, in which laptops are allowed. There is no wired or wireless internet connectivity.

In return for all these restrictions, we will offer serene, quiet study/reading/research space, the best print collections money can buy, comfortable chairs and tables, and a return to the lovely, dusty book culture that some of us (and I think we’re still in the majority) remember, love, and think important.”