The American Memory Collection is a collection of old photos on-line at the Library of Congress.
I love this kind of stuff. I really like old photos of the past.
Unfortunately, the web site just plain sucks.
Boing Boing to the rescue!
Simon Willison has created a Greasemonkey script that re-writes the pages and makes it 200 times better! I finally have installed Greasemonkey now just so I can run this script and I have to say that it plain rocks.
Thanks Simon!
Arrrrrr…. Shiver me timbers!
‘Tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day today!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
TypeNow.net is a site that host free, downloadable fonts.
I really like the page of fonts themed after TV shows and Movies. I’ll be coming back to this site.
From Ed Foster’s Gripe Line:
Microsoft’s Software Assurance licensing program has always stood out among software maintenance plans for the unique value proposition it offers customers. You pay nearly twice as much as other vendors charge for half of what other vendors give you, and that’s if you’re lucky. And, in spite of the grab bag of additional Software Assurance benefits Microsoft announced today, that’s still pretty much the take-it-or-leave-it-deal Redmond is offering its corporate customers.
There are days that I feel like this…
Today’s PvP Comic makes an interesting point about gender equality, hostile work environments and sexual harrasment.
The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music
There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise.
Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as “copy protection” — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes. Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth. Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you’re not making any illegal uses.
In other words, in this brave new world of “authorized music services,” law-abiding music fans often get less for their money than they did in the old world of CDs (or at least, the world before record companies started crippling CDs with DRM, too). Unfortunately, in an effort to attract customers, these music services try to obscure the restrictions they impose on you with clever marketing.
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Kids: Understand the USPTO’s distortion of the law
Wendy is a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School for the 2005-06 term, teaching Internet Law and Information Privacy, and a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on intellectual property and free speech issues. Wendy was previously an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before joining EFF, she taught Internet Law as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Kramer Levin in New York.
A bunch 5th graders from Hawley Elementary School, in Hawley MN have re-created Devo’s “Whip It” video. Hilarious.
365 tomorrows is a collaborative project designed to present readers with one new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year. Utilizing the broad palate of science fiction, our vision of the future creates a diverse pool of stories with something for everyone to enjoy.
365 launched August 1, 2005 and will continue until July 31, 2006
