January 2012
84 posts
I'm just writing this to get it out of my system. →
from Bent Objects I think you could call this my love letter to the internet.
A few times in the last year I’ve tweeted my opinion that we are living in the most creative time in human history. I strongly believe this, and can get quite excited by the awesome possibilities of sharing work via the internet. I just had to write something here explaining what I meant, and to state the facts...
We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA →
from Deeplinks
If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws to the Internet. While it was only negotiated between a few countries,1 it has global...
Image Collections Online - The Jerry Slocum... →
The Jerry Slocum Collection of mechanical puzzles embodies a lifetime pursuit of the intriguing and the perplexing. The result is the largest assemblage of its kind in the world, with over 34,000 puzzles. Unlike word or jigsaw puzzles, mechanical puzzles are hand-held objects that must be manipulated to achieve a specific goal. Popular examples include the Rubik’s cube and tangrams. The...
ScribblerToo :: Mario Klingemann :: zefrank.com →
Adiós tiempo.
Stop ACTA ! →
Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership... →
from Boing Boing
In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster. What the judge ruled was that photographing a scene that is “substantially similar” to a scene someone else...
Ghosts of Lisbon →
from Retronaut
Arcos Plaça Comerço
Chiado
Elevador
Plaça do Comerço
Rua lojas lisboa
Santa caterina
Teatro Rossio
All images by Jorge Vilanova
Stop ACTA: secretive treaty will bring in the... →
from Boing Boing
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is the notorious, unprecedented secret copyright treaty that was negotiated by industry representatives and government trade reps, without any access by elected representatives, independent business, the press, public interest groups, legal scholars, independent economists and so on. Time and again, the world’s richest...
Edward De Bono →
from Quotes of the Day “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
Incongruencia crítica, o cuando una editorial se... →
¿Era posible que el mismo mes que Crítica lanzaba la edición corregida de un libro analógico lanzara la versión digital del mismo título pero con una edición seis años obsoleta?
Página/12 :: espectaculos →
“A pesar de los discursos apocalípticos sobre la piratería, el mercado dio un salto del 8 por ciento, generando 5200 millones de dólares. En varios países la cuota en ese formato superó el 50 por ciento, y los sitios legales aumentan su presencia y volumen de negocios.”
Department of Justice Misdirection on Cloud... →
from Deeplinks
Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create a risk of US law enforcement access to people’s data? The US Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to be trying to placate international concern by saying one thing in international fora; but it says something quite different quite in the US courts.
On January 18, a senior Justice Department official tried...
Color — Method of Action →
Leaving the safety of his brick walk, he crossed... →
from Unhappy Hipsters Leaving the safety of his brick walk, he crossed the gravel path into her side to discuss how the languishing tree was affecting their accreditation as a certified backyard bird habitat.
(Photo: Dustin Aksland; Dwell)
Apple Jumps Into iBooks - With Hobnail Boots On →
from Copyfight What started with gushing fanboy squee about Apple’s iBooks Textbooks and iBooks Author has devolved into crankiness and upset as people realized what was in the fine print.
Seems that if we’re reading the iBooks EULA correctly then if you make something with it you’re agreeing to sell that created work through the iBooks store only. You can still give it away...
Guide to clothes, by hole count
notch:
1 hole: Sock
2 holes: Leggings
3 holes: Underwear
4 holes: Shirt
(god, this blog is dying, isn’t it?)
CARTELE DEL DIA →
from Proyecto Cartele
Mata egos
(Ciudad Madero, Argentina)
ADALBERTO HUGO OCHOA
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from una flor de papel ¡Se apareció!… El libro de los fantasmas Con poemas y cuentos brevísimos de Nelvy Bustamante e ilustraciones de Cecilia Afonso Esteves. Editorial Ruedamares (Neuquén. Argentina).
Corre el fantasma a cazar naranjas y limones. En la oscuridad naranjas y limones pueden ser soles. Nelvy Bustamante
Las 6 ilustraciones interiores: Las dedicatorias:
Ese fantasma era...
Cada vez más cerca →
from Libros y Bitios #buscador #social
Desde hace unos días, Google en inglés permite utilizar su función Search Plus (para ir desde el buscador configurado en español, hay que cambiar al pie de la página: “Google.com in English”). Está disponible únicamente para quieres se han dado de alta en Google+ y tienen una sesión activa.
Si la sesión se ha configurado para presentar resultados...
Espectacular respuesta de The Pirate Bay a... →
from Libro de Notas Artículos: Marcos Taracido
Controvertida, sin duda, la respuesta que la comunidad de alojamiento en intercambio de archivos, muchos con protección de derechos de autor, The Pirate Bay da al cierre de Megaupload: Espectacular respuesta de The Pirate Bay a Hollywood.
«Por lo tanto, toda la base de esta industria, que hoy está gritando en contra de la pérdida de control...
Poor Chris Dodd →
from Boing Boing The former senator and now CEO of the MPAA can’t catch a break: “You’ve got an opponent who has the capacity to reach millions of people with a click of a mouse and there’s no fact-checker.” Must be terribly hard to represent the largest media empires in the world, who collectively own all the major newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, billboards,...
SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of... →
How Copyright Industries Con Congress | Cato @... →
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from una flor de papel agreste / ríos y esteros > stop-motion¡Luz (natural), cámara, xilofón! Gracias a Juan (cámara) y a Eduardo (xilofón). “Mi hijo se duerme aquí,a mi lado, sobre el pasto.Y entró en el sueño entreun lujo agreste de juguetes:la danza de los reflejosencendiendo y apagandoun temblor de pececillos”Juan L. Ortiz Al fresco, animando la luz. Foto x Taiel.
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Gracias gordito de Megaupload →
from ALT1040 Gracias gordito de Megaupload por haberme dado algunas de las mejores conversaciones de mi vida. Soy @inti y no tienes la menor idea de quién soy. No te conozco más allá de la campaña informativa que estaba planificada para hundir el poco prestigio que tenías, luego de ponerte preso en Nueva Zelanda. Así que lo más seguro es que pueda estar lleno de prejuicios, que he tratado...
Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light →
from Colossal
This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing. Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury...
Enlaces para entender qué demonios está pasando... →
Movies from an Alternate Universe, by Peter Stults →
from Retronaut
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This capsule was curated by Thomas Jones
Lo que está en juego →
from eCuaderno El cierre de un popular servicio de alojamiento en línea de archivos digitales al día siguiente de una protesta global contra la censura en internet, calculado o no, constituye una torpeza y una provocación (los ciberataques en represalia no se hicieron esperar). Parece un escenario deliberadamente revuelto para distraer la atención acerca de los debates de fondo que seguimos sin...
This Week in Copyright - SOPA, Golan, and... →
from Freedom to Tinker It has been an exceptionally busy week for copyright policy. We heard from all three branches of the US Federal Government in one way or another, while the citizens of the Internet flexed their muscles in response.
The most covered story of the week was the battle over SOPA and PIPA — the twin proposed bills that aimed to cut down on online piracy of copyrighted...
Una lectura del EULA del iBook2 →
from Tinta-E Ya sabéis: Acuerdo de Licencia de Usuario Final. ALUF mola más que EULA (End User License Agreement), pero la inmensa mayoría de los usuarios los acepta de la mismaforma: paginaabajopaginaabajopaginaabajopaginaabajopaginaabajopaginaabajoAceptar.
Lo malo es que, en este caso, Aceptar implica para el autor un trágala novedoso. Y no, un EULA en USA no es un brindis al sol, querido...
*Solitario en ronda →
from juegosdeingenio.org
Sobre la mesa hay varias monedas formando una ronda. Todas muestran la cara. El objetivo es que queden dadas vuelta mediante el siguiente procedimiento.
Damos vuelta una cualquiera. Nos movemos en el sentido de las agujas del reloj un lugar y damos vuelta la moneda que esté allí. Luego nos movemos dos lugares (siempre en el mismo sentido) y damos vuelta la moneda que...
Editoriales anglosajonas crean otras líneas de... →
Hemos observado que algunas editoriales anglosajonas están creando nuevas líneas de negocio y servicios al margen de su core business, o sea, de la producción de libros, y que las han centrado en sus autores y autoras. Así por ejemplo, Random House UK ha lanzado (10/01/2012) el servicio Random House Speakers en asociación con The London Speaker Bureau, mediante el cual ofrece sus autores como...
Con iBooks 2, iBooks Author y iTunes Apple U... →
from El club del ebook
Luego de muchísima especulación, hace un ratito Apple culminó su promocionado evento educativo, que tuvo a muchos conjeturando anuncios disparatados.
Finalmente la gente de Cupertino anunció en el Museo Guggenheim de Nueva York un servicio de contenidos para iPad que apunta directamente a alumnos universitarios y de nivel medio, con una nueva manera de entender los libros...
Stallman on E-Book Evils & Privacy →
from Copyfight As noted, I was on a copyright panel with Richard Stallman this past weekend. The man certainly has mellowed with age (though I’m glad I wasn’t on the “Steve Jobs’ Legacy” panel with him). Prior to the panel he handed out a sheet titled “The Danger of E-books”, which you can find online at his site.
The points he raises are mostly ones...
Richard Stallman: The Danger of Ebooks →
The Danger of Ebooks
In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological
advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies
that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.
With printed books,
• You can buy one with cash, anonymously.
• Then you own it.
• You are not required to sign a license that...
Apple reinventa la rueda, digo el libro de texto →
from Tinta-E ¡Lo han vuelto a hacer! ¡Es mágico! Podríamos seguir ad-nauseam, pero tinta-e no es un blog dedicado a columpiarme colgado de un manzano. Para eso está el iPad es phenomenal, pero no me alcanza el tiempo para mantener tinta-e, wintablet.info y el otro blog. Two much.
Esta vez hago una excepción, porque los libros de texto me parecen mucho más importantes que los gadgets.
Como dice...
FRASE DEL DÍA“The Adequate GatsbyHarry Potter and... →
from etecé FRASE DEL DÍA “The Adequate Gatsby Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Pebble Temporarily Misplaced With the Wind Charlie & The High Fructose Corn Syrup Factory Catch-21 F. Kafka, The Preliminary Hearing Breakfast At Target To Slightly Injure a Mockingbird How Stella Got her Groove Taken Away in the First Place” (Samples of tweets responding to the #lessambitiousbooks tag, on...
No censuren la web →
from The Official Google Blog - Latin America Quizá hayan notado que muchos de nuestros sitios web favoritos se ven distintos hoy. Wikipedia está suspendido. Wordpress está en la obscuridad. Nosotros censuraremos nuestro logotipo en nuestra página inicial – en www.google.com – e invitamos a quienes nos visitan a firmar una petición para el Congreso. Pero, ¿por qué tanto alboroto? Ahora mismo, en...
Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally... →
sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak
Wikipedia will go dark to protest SOPA/PIPA →
from Boing Boing
Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikipedia will join Reddit, Boing Boing, and many other sites around the Internet in going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA/PIPA, the pending US legislation that would make it impossible to run any website that links or allows commenters to link, by making us liable for copyright infringement on the sites we link to.
Wales used his Twitter...
Claudia Degliuomini →
from Ilustradores Argentinos Web: http://bit.ly/wk2RId Blog: http://bit.ly/xRdRSp Estilos: Infantil, Juvenil, Personajes Técnicas: Acuarela, Collage, Mixta Categerias: Animación, Libros Infantiles, Otros, Publicidad
Beyond the Borders of Postage Stamps →
from Colossal
New York-based artist Molly Rausch paints the extended scenes around the edges of postage stamps, imagining the continued horizons and broader stories told by stamp artwork. Via her website:
Each stamp painting begins with an actual postage stamp that is glued down to the paper. Then Rausch paints around the stamp, extending the scene, with watercolor and gouache. As a...
new off-site video/audio embed codes →
from Internet Archive Blogs We are about to rollout a “new new” video/audio player
You can see it in action now with our upcoming embed codes to go with this new player.
It will allow for additional much wanted features like:
- off-site playlists
- fullscreen in many cases
- subtitles/captions
as well as the standard arbitrary width/height and “autoplay” options.
You can see some examples...
“Any company that is providing great content online in a way that’s easy to use...”
– Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis