….finally, after many, many hours of work, and countless evenings up late, finally the Master’s Paper is finished.
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Category: Digital Culture
From BoingBoing, a story about an economics professor here at UNC that’s come to the conclusion that (*gasp, shock*) illegal downloading of music doesn’t actually affect album sales.
A quote from the paper: “Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale…high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing. ”
Allow me to translate the gist of the paper to non-academic speak for those not at a University:
“Screw you, RIAA, you bunch of money grubbing litigious jerkwads.”
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Get some Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig’s newest book, Free Culture, is available for download on his website, licensed under a Creative Commons license.
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Cool CSS Trick
The amount of cool stuff that you can do with clever use of CSS is just amazing. Take a look at a neat CSS hack for applying drop shadows to nearly any box or graphic.
According to BoingBoing and the Internet Archive the copyright on the original Night of the Living Dead has expired, and the whole freaking movie is available for download.
Now my question is: how can this POSSIBLY be in the public domain? It was made in 1968. Did the copyright owner release it? Anyone have any idea?
Well, it’s a huge crime that I haven’t gotten to see the movie yet, being the horror AND zombie fan that I am. For those that also have yet to see the shuffling horrors of a good zombie film lately, here’s some Zombie Pinups to keep you entertained.
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Rummy caught lying
Or perhaps he simply misremembered…in any case, MoveOn.org has a great clip of Rumsfield being taken to task on Face the Nation. Basically, he claims that he never said that Saddam was an “imminent threat” to the US, and the hosts then take great joy in throwing quotes at him where he said effectively that. Really great to see someone calling the Bush cartel on their lies.
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Exactly!
“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country.”
– John Adams (1735-1826)
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Mmm…4th generation
Appleinsider just published this story on the possible upcoming 4th generation iPod. Short list of coolness:
- 5o gig hard drive
- COLOR screen, with possible MPG or Quicktime capabilities, and the ability to view JPG’s
- a video jack to connect to TV (not sure why we’d need this, but…)
Tech always gets better/cheaper if you wait, but this may push my technolust into hyperdrive. Color, MPG playback, JPG viewing, and a 5o gig hardrive in the iPod formfactor? Sign me up.