February 2012
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France: All your books are belong to us →
“Last week France passed a law that permits the state to seize authors’ rights on books published before 2001. Scribes have just six months to opt-out, or lose their moral rights and the ability to determine a price for their work.
“It’s essentially a Compulsory Purchase Order for intellectual property - the author’s work is no longer their own. Ownership is...
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“Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade.
“Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of gene-therapy sterilization, Sir Peter prides himself on his motto, “If we can, we must.”...
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Eraserhead →
The British Board of Film Classification’s ratings report on David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
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“The internet’s not broken.
So then why are there so many attempts to regulate...”
– Jeff Jarvis (via wilwheaton)
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Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed →
“To celebrate this week’s Blu-ray release (in the UK at least) of Repo Man, director Alex Cox reflects on the 1984 cult classic, subsequent battles with Hollywood and Hunter S. Thompson, and why it’s fine to pirate his work…”
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Darth Maul’s Return…
(via USA Today)
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Church of the SubGenius Hour of Slack #1348 -...
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SCP-087
Yeah, no, I don’t fucking think so.
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Microsoft, Google and Netflix want to add... →
“In an era where browsers are increasingly the system of choice for compromising users’ security and privacy, it is nothing short of madness to contemplate adding extensions to HTML standards that contemplate designing devices and software to deliberately hide their workings from users, and to prevent users from seeing what they’re doing and changing that behavior if it...
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“People who don’t like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn’t have such funny...”
– Brad Reddekopp (via nevver)
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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before... →
“On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal...
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Open the Future: Fifteen Minutes into the Future →
“William Gibson’s widely-quoted saying, “the future is here, it’s just not well-distributed yet” is suggestive of this. The future spreads, almost like an infection. The distribution of the future is less an endeavor of conscious advancement than it is an epidemiological process — a pandemic of tomorrows, if you will.”
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The Good Listener by Michael Marshall Smith →
“In Michael Marshall Smith’s short story for the FutureScapes anthology, a young man tracks his late father’s last days using technology in a bid to understand him…”
This is a very beautiful and emotional story. I’ve always loved Michael Marshall Smith’s work, but this one… this one is special.
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