29th June, 2004
BBC Creative Archive
Finally, something to smile about. It always gladens my heart when I hear about a large-scale organization using the Internet for Good instead of for Screwing Over the Public. In the same vein as MIT’s OpenCourseWare, the BBC is planning on opening up it’s archives and making them freely available to anyone on the Web to use “for learning, for creativity and for pleasure.” Very, very cool. Cheers, mates. [via BoingBoing]
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29th June, 2004
Big
Apple has just come out with new Cinema Displays. The flagship model is a staggeringly huge 30 inches and has a staggeringly cool minimalistic/industrial design as well. Of course, such bling bling doesn’t come free; a new 30-incher will cost you just a hair under $3,300. Staggering indeed.
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29th June, 2004
Do it for the kids.
Note: my Internet connection has been down the past couple of days so I’m posting this a bit late.
I’m in a pissy mood today, thanks to having to deal with Gateway’s moronic technical support policies. In a nutshell, it now takes 3x as long to get a friggin’ parts replacement. It’s no wonder they’re cutting staff and losing money hand over fist.
But I digress. Via too many sources to list, comes word of two separate acts (the PIRATE Act and the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act) that Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy – who are most definitely not bought and paid for by the entertainment industry – are trying to rush through the system. If enacted, kiss your fair use rights goodbye and bid farewell to innovation. The EFF has an excellent example of how Apple, Toshiba and C.net could be sued back to the stone age under such legislation.
Despite his monetary ties to Big Entertainment, Sen. Hatch is still claiming that this is all being done to protect children from the evil temptation of technology. Say it with me, kids: riiiight.
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