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"It appears the birthplace of Rome's founders, Romulus and Remus, has been unearthed. "
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"There is nothing particularly extraordinary about John's activities. Yet if copyright holders were inclined to enforce their rights to the maximum extent allowed by law, he would be indisputably liable for a mind-boggling $4.544 billion in potential da
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"How refreshing to discover an online economics journal that tries to re-integrate economics with the real world. "
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Excellent NewsGrist post that starts "At a friend's party last year, while leaning with glass of wine in one hand against a bookcase bulging with many fantastic things, I came across a facsimile of BLAST II, the "war number" of Wyndham Lewis's Vorticist j
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"The difference is that this time, the anti-piracy laws were enacted at the behest of the US trade representative, [...] Imagine that: Russia reinstates state control over the press at the behest of the US government!"
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"Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing." And resources for doing so in various media.
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"the current landscape of fiction in comparison with what has gone before is a very sparse and relatively dull place. Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watch
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"The University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples were created by Lawrence Fritts, Director of the Electronic Music Studios and Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa in 1997."
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"It's hard for me to think of a more ideal platform for web design than Common Lisp. Imagine having a system that runs indefinitely, with the ability to “snapshot” its running state and restore exactly where you left off, and where updates can be ap
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Exellent analysis of the latest Tory nafness. "Cameron is mistaken, there is a conservative counter-point to co-operatives - it's called charity"
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"Rowling had supported the Lexicon website, but she and Warner Bros said they saw a difference between fans publishing information for free on the internet, and selling it in the form of a book." I actually agree with Rowling but persuade me...
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Excellent visualizations of "The Social Graph".
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"We are trying to raise $30,000 by midnight, December 31st, 2007 towards the ongoing development of our website. You can support Rhizome by becoming a member for $25 a year or making a larger donation, in exchange for a limited edition artwork."
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"This Halloween, the BFI marks the 50th anniversary of Hammer Horror by re-releasing a new restoration of the studio's most celebrated film, Dracula, starring Christopher Lee in his first ever outing as the vampire Count. " Nowhere near me though :-(
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Lisp for agile development.
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"From the perspective of moral rights, the Creative Commons licenses start with a simple proposition: They don't affect moral rights."
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"Whether you agree or not, the bigger problem here is that the writers are fighting an industry struggling to create an economic model for this new era for content. They're demanding money for content that may never make money."
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"Manchester Free Software has its first event on November 13th - come discuss Free Software with your local users group, plus Matthew Bloch from Bytemark Hosting will be giving a talk on running a business with Free Software."
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"Matt Lee, campaigns manager at the FSF will be delivering his second annual talk at the York GNU/Linux Users Group on Saturday 10th November 2007. The event is held in room Langwith L/N/006 at the University of York."
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"music downloads have a positive effect on music purchases among Canadian downloaders but that there is no effect taken over the entire population aged 15 and over."
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"RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA celebrates the cultural and artistic practice of remix, inviting guest artists to “rip, mix, and burn” elements from two digital-media works in the museum's collection"
