False Positives

• Lessig’s Future of Ideas goes Creative Commons - Boing Boing - Future of Ideas is a grim and prescient look at the way that corporate interests have rigged the system so that they can own more and more of our thoughts, ideas and conversations.

- CreativeCommons Culture Books

• Google Calendar Quick Add Firefox Extension - the quickest way I’ve found to do “remind me about this it 3 months”

- gmail google calendar

• Via Challenge Canadian MPs: “I will not break fair dealing” pledge - Boing Boing - Michael Geist has a counterproposal >> get all of Canada’s members of Parliament to take a pledge not to undermine fair dealing. (Update : VanCity Sun editorial on Reformed copyright laws shouldn’t suppress creativity).

- CopyRight Canada

• Using Gmail to read those damned winmail.dat files! (by Jeremy Zawodny) - what to do when you get a email from some sorry Outlook/Exchange user which contains a dreaded winmail.dat file.

- OutLook email gmail

• xkcd » ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat - xkcd’s Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat. a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that’ve never been spoken before.

- xkcd algorithms Code Humour geek

• No ghosts: A Blunt Atheist FAQ - Weak atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of a god, or gods. Strong atheism is the belief that a god, or gods, do not exist. (I’m more of a nontheist, in that I -try to- go about with out the need of gods or God, in matters moral or metaphysical. - “not necessarily gods and gods not necessary.”)

- philosophy Culture

• Kiosk, a short Story by Bruce Sterling - 21 century Scifi goodness from the Bruce >>
  

  THE FABRIKATOR WAS UGLY, noisy, a fire hazard, and it smelled. Borislav got it for the kids in the neighborhood. One snowy morning, in his work gloves, long coat, and fur hat, he loudly power-sawed through the wall of his kiosk. He duct-taped and stapled…

- sci-fi SciFi Bruce.Sterling

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