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This is a great video of the ZDNet Executive Editor explaining what’s wrong with DRM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKI_w_VBoTQ&search=d.r.m.%20crap Tags: zdnet, drm, crap
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View ArticleCadbury got busted for reducing the size of the Creme Egg and then lying...
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View ArticleWell that’s just about the strangest thing I’ve seen all day
“This work began on the day when we had made a extra big candy like a bowling ball by ourselves. Since that day, we had been licking the candy day after day for about six months.’...
View ArticleBrilliant DMCA side effect
Crappy DRM company says the DMCA forces you to buy their technology instead of building your own because not buying their technology is a circumvention of an effective copyright tool. The thing is, I...
View ArticleDear Netflix
Dear Netflix: I would very much like your website to stop redirecting me to a page that tells me that Im using an unsupported browser. I know I use Opera. I like it. I understand if you dont want to...
View ArticleCool photo roundup
Nasa: http://www.nasaimages.org/index.html Museum of Natural History: http://images.library.amnh.org/photos/index.html 400+ forms used by the NSA:...
View ArticleSomething interesting about scarcity
We used to have a 6-at-a-time Netflix plan. We’d get 6 movies, but then sometimes we’d go months before watching them, or even just deciding that enough was enough and sending them back. And...
View ArticleMy Huck Finn edit
“Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn’t hardly notice the other dudes. Dudes would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any dude in that country....
View ArticleHow I came to love Jamie Zawinski
I now feel compelled to share this, since many people have now discovered Jamie’s writing due to that whole thing. But for me, it started long ago with just a single link. Time melts away in an instant...
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