16 March 2005 10:00
Beatallica back, thanks to Lars Ulrich, fair use crusader.
by mbertier
"Ulrich says he believes that cover bands, mash-ups, and the right to re-interpret art on the internet are things worth fighting for." -- Ulrich == metallica drummer
16 March 2005 08:15
MoonEdit
by François Hodierne & 4 others (via)
Tom Dobrowolski's multi-platform collaborative text editor. A free Windows/Linux concurrent to SubEthaEdit
15 March 2005 09:00
Digital Rights Management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to the developing world
by mbertier (via)
This paper discusses the failure of DRM in the developed world, where it has been in wide deployment for a decade with no benefit to artists and with substantial cost to the public and to due process, free speech and other civil society fundamentals.
Aussie actors' guild forbids members to use Creative Commons
by mbertier (via)
"The Australian equivalent of the Screen Actors Guild has apparently refused to allow its members to participate in a film project--because the project would be licensed under a Creative Commons license:"
14 March 2005 16:45
A New Butler For Jonas
by François Hodierne
Furthermore, suppose the tool were well commented, and structured in such a way that people who have even the most tenuous grasp on the concepts of HTML could reasonably modify it to remove the links and content that they don’t want, and add or reorder the links that they do want?
14 March 2005 16:30
Butler
by François Hodierne & 6 others (via)
Butler enhances Google search results by adding links to competitors. It also removes ads, changes typography, and a few other useful things.
14 March 2005 16:00
10 March 2005 09:30
Colorization Using Optimization
by mbertier & 7 others (via)
In this paper we present a simple colorization method that requires neither precise image segmentation, nor accurate region tracking. AMAZING
10 March 2005 09:00
09 March 2005 10:15
paulhammond.org live
by philippej & 1 other (via)
"So the new site is finally live. It's too late in the evening (well, morning) to write anything coherent about what's new and interesting, and why it's taken so long to get this far".
09 March 2005 09:15
09 March 2005 08:00
08 March 2005 08:30
WIPO Shutting Out Public Interest Organizations
by mbertier (via)
Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that it will shut out most public interest organizations at two important meetings devoted to intellectual property and development.
07 March 2005 13:30
Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules
by mbertier
"7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations."
RHAAAAAAA
07 March 2005 11:15
Mark Pilgrim's Greasemonkeys scripts
by François Hodierne & 1 other (via)
Be sure to check the one called LIP (Link Integrity Preservation)
07 March 2005 10:00
Write a zombie story, go to jail
by mbertier (via)
"[...] what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police [...]"
07 March 2005 09:45
How To Find MP3's With Google
by mbertier & 33 others (via)
This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s.
07 March 2005 09:30
lg3d-livecd: LG3D LiveCD Project
by mbertier & 2 others (via)
It is our aim to create a LiveCD booting with Project Looking Glass 3D by default.
07 March 2005 09:15
PEAR Reaches 10 Million Downloads! - Pixelated Dreams
by mbertier
I don't know when exactly, but PEAR has now reached (and passed) the 10 Million downloads mark. As of writing it sits at 10,311,782 exactly.
03 March 2005 11:00
Google Toolbar AutoLink
by François Hodierne
"As content providers, let's not try and reach into our readers' computers and dictate what they can or can't do with the copies of our content that they've downloaded for their personal use" Amen
02 March 2005 22:00
02 March 2005 09:15
Unhappy Birthday
by mbertier & 1 other
The Clayton F. Summy Company is no longer independent, but, through a chain of purchases, the copyright for Happy Birthday To You lies securely in the hands of the Time Warner company. Happy Birthday's copyright is licensed and enforced by ASCAP, and the simple little ditty brings in more than USD $2 million in annual royalties.
01 March 2005 21:45
IBM : phpblog@developerWorks
by François Hodierne & 1 other (via)
by Andi Gutmans, Zeev Suraski, Ken Coar, Sam Ruby and .... Mark Pilgrim himself :)
01 March 2005 21:15
Mark Pilgrim is alive !
by François Hodierne & 1 other (via)
"On a related note, Anne, it's been fascinating sitting back and watching you travel along the same path to technical-blogging-enlightenment that I took."
