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The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
“one of the best color optical illusions I have ever seen”
Jun
5th
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5th
World of Change : Feature Articles
Inspired by our 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the Sun—has changed during the previous decade.
May
20th
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20th
[George Zipf] noticed that if you tabulate the biggest cities in a given country and rank them according to their populations, the largest city is always about twice as big as the second largest, and three times as big as the third largest, and so on. In other words, the population of a city is, to a good approximation, inversely proportional to its rank.
May
13th
Wed
13th
A Modest Proposal: Three-Strikes for Print | Freedom to Tinker
Yesterday the French parliament adopted a proposal to create a “three-strikes” system that would kick people off the Internet if they are accused of copyright infringement three times.
This is such a good idea that it should be applied to other media as well. Here is my modest proposal to extend three-strikes to the medium of print, that is, to words on paper.
My proposed system is simplicity itself. The government sets up a registry of accused infringers. Anybody can send a complaint to the registry, asserting that someone is infringing their copyright in the print medium. If the government registry receives three complaints about a person, that person is banned for a year from using print.
May
7th
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7th
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4th
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4th
Crush the Castle | Armor Games
Juego en Flash, divertido. No consigo destruir el último castillo (el 24).
Apr
26th
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26th
La hora de cuestionar el brindis. Por Patricio Lorente - Página/12
Es hora de señalar que extender los plazos del derecho de autor o universalizar el régimen de patentes, sólo por mencionar los reclamos más habituales, lejos de estimular el arte y la cultura o facilitar la innovación científica y tecnológica, sólo persiguen consolidar monopolios de explotación, limitar la innovación competitiva, generar escasez donde no la hay –y por ende, oportunidades de negocio–, privatizar recursos que son patrimonio común de la humanidad.
EL EXTRAÑO CASO DEL JUICIO AL PROFESOR HORACIO POTEL - Página/12
En el Día de la Propiedad Intelectual, la persecución judicial al docente que cometió el “delito” de difundir en la web textos difíciles de hallar de Derrida, Heidegger y Nietzsche debería servir para abrir un debate menos policíaco.
Apr
23rd
Thu
23rd
Suzanne Vega-Gypsy #1.AVO-Basel-2008 (via Raindropser1)
Todavía me acuerdo que esta fue la primera canción que escuché de Suzanne Vega, en la radio de un taxi con el que volvía a casa, cuando el disco en que salió (“Solitude standing”) era nuevo. Hace más de veinte años.
