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• Pat Lee on Art and Originality

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 108
  One of my closest friends, Pat Lee, has a webcomic, The Fantastical Adventures of Caspian the Sea-Devil . The "about" section contains this fantastic gem on art and originality: This comic, like all comics, consists of written and drawn elements. The written element, the story, will be somewhat guided by my hand ...
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• Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

  
  jonobacon@home — Authority: 512
  M elissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation dollar for dollar for the next week – up to ...
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• Manhattan’s Most Interesting Neighborhoods

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 462
  There are so many great things about Manhattan. From the liveliness to the convenience and the outright beauty of the city itself, residents and travelers alike fall in love with New York.
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• 11/18/09: Opera San José Free Concert | San Jose

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 490
  All the world’s a stage and Caltrain’s San Jose Diridon station is no exception. In celebration of National Opera Week, Opera San José will stage a free concert at the station November 18, 2009 from 5 to 6pm. Opera Deals for Caltrain Riders: During this event, commuters can enter a drawing for two tickets to ...
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• Wikipedia: How do you reform a horizontal organization?

  
  i like patterns — Authority: 106
  Yesterday, I attended a discussion at the office of Wikimedia Germany on Wikipedia’s notability guidelines . There has been a heated debate going on in Germany for a few weeks now, provoked by a series of controversial deletions. So yesterday’s meeting was thought to be an opportunity to articulate criticism ...
  5 days ago

• Free Music Doesn’t Mean Devalued Music

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 108
  Mike Masnick does a great job of explaining why some libertarian and "free market" types freak out when they see a zero dollar price tag . The concept of zero took ages for societies to even recognize, nevermind understand. Its not a number, but the absence of a number. A stumbling block for mathematics and physics ...
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• Learn Italian – Learn The Days Of The Week

  
  Funny Videos - Funny Commercials - Stupid Videos - Crazy Videos — Authority: 153
  www.LearningItalianLikeCrazy.com. This learning Italian video lesson teaches you the days of the week and it is one of several learning Italian videos that you will receive absolutely free when you visit LearningItalianLikeCrazy.com. In addition to the video lessons, you will also receive the first two (2) Learning ...
  6 days ago

• Cable Modem Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 649
  In a case reminiscent of the DVD hacking cases from the early 2000s, Oregon cable modem hacker and author of "Hacking the Cable Modem" has been charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting wire fraud . This is another sad commentary on a criminal justice system that prosecutes the toolmaker without noting the ...
  6 days ago

• Cable Modem Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges

  
  OStatic blogs — Authority: 649
  In a case reminiscent of the DVD hacking cases from the early 2000s, Oregon cable modem hacker and author of "Hacking the Cable Modem" has been charged with conspiracy and aiding and abetting wire fraud . This is another sad commentary on a criminal justice system that prosecutes the toolmaker without noting the ...
  6 days ago

• Not tolerating the intolerant

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  Whether you are involved in open source, free culture, digital rights, social change or green issues, community forms when people with drive and passion for an ethos share their ideas and volunteer to make those ideas a reality. read more
  1 week ago

• Discovering "Sita Sings The Blues"

  
  Free Software Magazine - — Authority: 458
  “Sita Sings The Blues” by self-taught animator Nina Paley, may be the first feature-length animated film released under a free license (the Creative Commons By-SA). Presented through a variety of animation styles and narrative tones, it fuses apparently disparate ideas and sources into a unified whole. An ancient ...
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• Canonical Matching Creative Commons Donations

  
  jonobacon@home — Authority: 512
  H ere at Canonical we are all big fans of the Creative Commons . For those of you unfamiliar with them, they have created a set of Free Culture licenses that make it simple for people to release open content . They also run a variety of resources to make finding and remixing content simple and empowering. In ...
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• “Intellectual Property” is Slavery

  
  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 417
  “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”– John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government “Most thinkers…hold that you own your own life, and it follows that you must own the products of that life, and that those products can be traded in free exchange with ...
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• Because We Can builds a 3D sign globe for Wikimedia

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 523
  Our build/design friends from Because We Can over in Oakland have done some great work for us over the past two years – including some nice entry-way desks, tables, and advice on how to make our humble space look nice.  They’re also an open company that blazes a trail in using open-source software and ...
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• When youve seen one Edwardian field marshal, youve seen em all

  
  Durova — Authority: 419
  Props to Roger Davies !  The Library of Congress staff has emailed to confirm that they will be correcting their records regarding the identity of the man in the recently promoted featured picture at right.  This is not Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener but Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts .  Roger ...
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• Open Access: what’s in it for me?

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 486
  One problem that I am facing is convincing colleagues of the utility of an Open Access publication. The usual arguments: more visibility, retention of the right to re-use material, the Greater Good, taxpayer access to taxpayer-funded research and so on don’t stick very well when faced with a $1500-$2500 or higher ...
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  Nina Paley's Blog — Authority: 417
  
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• Tricks, Treats & Terror

  
  Hipster, please!: +1 blog of nerd music & culture — Authority: 118
  I am a creature of habit. Any who regularly read Hipster, please! have no doubt come to anticipate my unique brand of consistency. Nerd News in Brief posts always start with a dash of unrelated bullshit, and each item contains a smart-ass headline. My interviews both begin and end with sweeping vignettes about the ...
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• Oxcars 2009 Barcelona – Free Culture for All

  
  Life in Catalonia - Catalonia Spain — Authority: 108
  With the invention of the Internet the world has changed along with our habits. We download music videos, pdf e-books, software and mp3 files to name but a few things. This way of life has been under threat for some time by the royalty management organisations and cultural lobbies. Now, the artists are saying that ...
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• Free Culture Forum 2009

  
  Commercial Open Source Software — Authority: 417
  The Free Culture Forum is an event dedicated to free culture and free knowledge, bringing together stakeholders from all over the world for three days in Barcelona (Spain) from 29th of October until 1st November. Watch the English  video on Youtube and  join the event live .
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