January 2012
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DRM is to publishing as science was to Stalinism →
I hadn’t heard of “Social DRM” (described in this article). Sounds like my blackmail DRM idea.
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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"Forwarded HTTP Extension" - Andreas Petersson,... →
Jan 28th
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"Unified User-Agent String (UUAS)" - Mateusz Karcz →
IETF draft on the contents of the User Agent HTTP header.
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
Jan 26th
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This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)... →
Very impressive HTML, CSS, and no javascript game.  See the HN comments for how it is done.
Jan 25th
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Django Reinhardt-01-10 : Django Reinhardt : Free... →
This is Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy swing from the 30s and 40s on archive.org and it is all in the public domain. I didn’t know the term for the genre so it took me a while to find this.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 18th
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Herpderpedia, A Collection of Tweets by People... →
Jan 18th
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(via Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea): Clay Shirky on TED.com)
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech... →
There’s weird stuff you’d think is public domain but isn’t including Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech. FTA: ”If you want to watch the whole thing, legally, you’ll need to get the $20 DVD. That’s because the King estate, and, as of 2009, the British music publishing conglomerate EMI Publishing, owns the copyright of the speech and its recorded...
Jan 18th
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Making Love to WebKit →
A scene-graph implementation in javascript & CSS 3D
Jan 17th
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First Ur Problems meme | quickmeme →
Jan 17th
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Where the top 100 box office films of 2011 are... →
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Show request's timestamp in Fiddler? - Stack... →
Jan 13th
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MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb... →
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose... →
General Purpose Computing vs The World. Round 1 is copyright. What will be round 2?
Jan 10th
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CSI: Xbox - how cops perform Xbox Live stakeouts... →
Fascinating anecdotes on criminal investigations involving game consoles.
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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The League of Moveable Type →
Cool fonts, cool name.  Fonts are ready for use on your website.
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Color Thief, script for grabbing the color palette... →
Picks out dominant color or palette from an image. Not only is that cool, but it is in JavaScript using canvas, and is licensed under Creative Commons attribution.
Jan 7th
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Vohaul Astral: Space Quest Remake & Sequel | Rock,... →
Space Quest II remake and a Space Quest 7!
Jan 7th
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My Hometown Is Better Than Yours « Rottin' in... →
FTA: “Three mountain ranges, four lakes and a fucking Sound. That’s a geographical feature your hometown hasn’t even heard of.”
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 4th
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Man Thinks It’s About Time He Went Back To Website... →
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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(via Shaun of the Lego / By Yatkuu)
Jan 3rd
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One-click, in-browser MP3 recording and hosting →
Cool, although I was hoping this would be done in HTML and JS. Now that would be impressive.
Jan 3rd
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(via M.C. Escher does Romeo and Juliet in the zany first trailer for Upside Down [Video]) Pretty trailer!
Jan 3rd
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David Weinberger's Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists... →
Jan 2nd
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James Joyce and Virginia Woolf copyrights expire... →
More amazing works entering public domain. A shame that US works take such an extreme amount of time.
Jan 1st