November 2010
44 posts
“You may recall the online magazine’s Fresca initiative…which launched last...”
– Turns out people like long-form articles after all.
Imposing DRM is a Business Decision, Not a Moral... →
up at the @huffpo
NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology... →
via @fchimero
“Appalling. As if there were not enough novels already… [Now] we are to have our...”
– via The Rumpus.net via @electriclit
“The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing...”
– U.S. warns Ottawa of WikiLeak release
More TSA Fun →
noblasters:
“You don’t need to see his identification.”
On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer. This post explains how.
Edit: Minor edits for clarity. I have uploaded the audio and it is available
WatchLinotype: The Film by Douglas Wilson — Kickstarter
“On one level there is no great mystery about web 2.0. It’s about the fact that...”
– http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/08/23/2242069.htm
via: The Casual Optimist
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #19 →
via @mitchjoel @acroll @hughmcguire
Why iambik doesn’t use DRM →
“Do a Wikipedia search for “Ray Smith” and you’ll be taken to a disambiguation...”
– Flying Under the Radar: 10 Underrated Canadian Authors
Check Ray Smith’s Century in audio.
“J. Robert Lennon, the American writer, teacher, critic, and blogger who marks...”
– “Ithacan Pastoral” by Jared Bland | The Walrus Blog
Noam Chomsky on Radio Open Source.
The Unicorn, from BBC’s In Our Time podcast,...
“Read for pleasure. Read junk. Read every kind of book. But read for pleasure....”
– W.S. Merwin (via thebronzemedal)
“Here’s the setup. The trainer hands out packets of index cards and asks each...”
– An unforgettable lesson « Jon Udell
publicscience.ca →
“Many popular social networking sites, including facebook, twitter, flickr and...”
– Open API | Open Exhibits
Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #18 →
“I often get asked about what editors do. Okay, nobody ‘often’ asks me anything....”
– Bookhugger.co.uk » Ed Hogan on what Editors do
Our Daughter →
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover →
No other jury verdict has had such a profound social impact as the acquittal of Penguin Books in the Lady Chatterley trial.
“Jay Rubin, a former Harvard University professor of Japanese literature, has...”
– Translator sees U.S. influence in Murakami’s humor and writing style
“I propose today that the current workflow hierarchy – container first, limiting...”
– Context first from @brianoleary
“What Pandamian is is that it’s a WordPress.com for writers. It’s a CMS, just a...”
– Pandamian: A Publishing Support Layer
“I developed PadPressed without an iPad Four months ago, entrepreneurs...”
– I developed PadPressed without an iPad | Startup In Mexico
“China’s National University of Defense Technology may have designed the world’s...”
– China May Have Built World’s Fastest Supercomputer - Bloomberg
“The online whistleblower platform WikiLeaks is posting close to 400,000 US...”
– The WikiLeaks Iraq Logs: A Protocol of Barbarity - SPIEGEL ONLINE 