Someone in SILS next year will take one of these two new Open Source Social Networking systems, install it, and finally the dream of SILSter will be realized.
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Wow…
….finally, after many, many hours of work, and countless evenings up late, finally the Master’s Paper is finished.
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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Master’s Paper update
- 31 pages
- writing the conclusion
- found lots of damning evidence on the ALA website about their copyright policies
- pretty happy with the way its going
- just like in 28 days later, the end is very fucking nigh
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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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Yet more zombie stuff
I swear I think I’m going to have to change the title of this blog to “Bring Out Your Dead” given all the zombie posts. But this one was too funny not to include.
I give you: SHAUN OF THE DEAD!
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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?