Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterScreenplay1 is still going through the review process at Zoetrope, and I have had my first proper torpedo review - a review designed almost entirely to knock the wind from your sales and sink your battleship, if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor.
I had thought that I was a pretty thick-skinned writer. I’ve written a lot […]
Ooh, the alliteration…
Anyway, Chenwei and Tian have posted some photos that they took at the reception after Larry's lecture. Thanks guys!
Joi is absolutely everywhere today. Guess no one can resist that clean-cut, boyish charm, eh?
If you've tried emailing me using my strawberry.z address and it bounced, please send again. There appears to have been something a bit screwy with that address recently, although I have no idea what it is. I assume it's been fixed simply because it doesn't appear to be bouncing anymore.Yay for free email accounts. No, […]
I file this, laughingly, under the 'tech' category purely because I deliberately haven’t set up a ‘My computer hates me and I hate it’ category. If I did, you’d be deluged by my complaints, so I figure that it’s best we don’t go there.
Over the last few months, my computer - my ageing, greying (beiging?) […]
Next Sunday, 6 June, I shall be up in London again at NotCon '04. Looking forward to seeing Brewster Kahle and Cory Doctorow speak about copyright, plus there'll be lots of other goodies to enjoy.
If you're there and you spot me, please do say hello.
Just two examples that illustrate further how out-of-hand copyright law is now.
Reynolds works for the London Ambulance Service, and has just been on a course covering new treatment guidelines. He and his colleagues will, however, be getting an out-of-date version of the course handbook because the copyright holders won't allow the London Ambulance Service to […]
I remember reading once that we humans live on a 25 hour long circadian rhythm, which we are constantly re-adjusting to fit into our 24 hour day.
Now, consider the whole time zone thing. Time zones are a real drag. I have a little clock sitting on my desk which is set to PST (-8 GMT) […]
Please don't blame me for this.
(Thanks Kate. Again. You're a bad influence.)
Well, I'm back from London, with a throat that feels as if I've been gargling glass shards, so forgive my brevity. (Plus, my memory for lectures is crap. I tend to remember overall impressions, not individual points. It's a miracle I made it through uni, frankly.)
Lawrence Lessig was very good last night. Interesting talk, with […]
If you remember, a while back I tried a little experiment to see if you really could mix Green & Black's 70% Organic with Wyborowa. The results were not good.
It turns out, however, that my 'infusion method' was all wrong. What I should have been doing was melting the chocolate first and then adding the […]
DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas Aren't Dogs
(thanks Kate)
Dooce suffers from an ingrown toenail. Not her ingrown toenail, mind you, but she suffers nonetheless. I feel her pain. I remember when one of my exen* had a cold - not a pretty sight. I do believe that the world did indeed end that weekend, although you may not have noticed at the time.
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I am sad to read that Gary Turner is giving up blogging.
Gary's blog was amongst one of the very first that I discovered and he was one of the first bloggers to leave comments on Chocolate and Vodka. I always looked forward to reading Gary's posts, many of which made me think 'Oh damn, I […]
For the terminally short of attention out there, here's my Free Culture audiobook essay in 15 words:
Lessig++
RIAA–
Free culture = more creativity
New publishing models
Download, read, buy = sales up
Discuss!