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LINKDUMP!
Firefox is sitting at an idle 85% CPU usage right now, so I should probably close some tabs.
How To Use An Apostrophe, much more high-rez than Bob the Angry Flower. Although much more wordy. And available as a poster.
Wigs on cats
Arbitrary unit +1. Holy shit this guy gets into my head. I never understood the whole 'goes up to 11' thing anyway.
Minimum wage machine art project. Turn the crank, and every five seconds a penny pops out from an internal reservoir. You're essentially working for minimum wage. Man, I'd love to have a sweet job like that.
Wrong color dumpster. Took me a while to notice why it was the wrong color. Hint: three hexadecimal numbers.
Man demands to be arrested for copying DVDs - under Danish law, it's legal to copy videos for backup or other private purposes. It's also illegal to break the DRM on most DVDs. So this guy copied 100 DVDs to his computer, and is insisting on going to court in order to set a legal precedent. Kudos.
The Chaos Scar is a new free D&D setting published by WotC, with free adventures. It's minimalist and ready-to-go, like a cross halfway between a full campaign setting and a delve. Edit: It's not actually free, the adventures require a D&DI subscription.
The original point of copyright was to encourage contribution to the arts. Before then, any body of creative work was thrown into the public domain, and anyone who wanted to copy it, re-perform it, remix it, could freely do so. By adding a copyright, or a limited government-enforced monopoly, the author could then enjoy some profit and creative control, before the work dropped into the public domain and was free for all.
I like to emphasize this point. Copyright was created in order to make more works into the public domain. Not to help the entertainment industry by devoting taxpayer money to an agency to control and enforcement.
Nothing's going into the public domain these days, and an author's grandchildren can die of old age before the copyright expires. I don't think that was ever the original intent of the idea behind copyright.
So, why not re-examine the fundamental purpose of copyright? What should copyright do?
I slipped into my Three Worgen Moon T-Shirt and stepped confidently out of the Dalaran sewer. Blood elves immediately swarmed around me and started giggling uncontrollably. I couldn’t tell if they were male or female (who can?) but they were obviously attracted to me. I strode confidently into the Violet Citadel and told Rhonin I was going to kill the Lich King. He said "You need help." I responded, "Three Worgen Moon is all the help I need." Rhonin shook his head, apologetically. I expected a wise mage to know more about the power of Three Worgen Moon.
I made breakfast sandwiches Sunday night. Toasted english muffin, single scrambled egg, sausage patty, and 3/6 slice of cheese. Froze, nuke for 2:30 in the mornings for a yummy hot breakfast.
Rapidfire update, to get rid of tabs I've been saving in my browser.
Play Apples to Apples online, with how-to videos.
Play Fluxx online.
Dress made with 24,000 LEDs. I somehow think a fursuit would be even awesomer.
Stoner Fluxx released! Yay!
I found a new webcomic called Guilded Age. It's interesting. Sky elves, winter elves, and shit elves, hah.
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejus
"What should a feminist man look like?"
The article talks about how "macho" is harmful, but says some other kind of recognizable gender role needs to be put on men. What's the big deal with separating genders and forcing the idea of gender differences arbitrarily? I just find it striking that, since it's gauche for men to display behaviors that are outside the norm enough to be noticed as extra-"masculine", why talk about replacing one abnormal behavior with another? Why does a guy have to "be a guy"? Why can't people just be people?
I've been reading a book off and on for the past six weeks. It's called Imajica, by Clive Barker. Now the library wants it back. I'm on page 426, roughly halfway. I'm going to go to them and see if I can check it out again. Just putting this down here so I'll remember the page number.
Just today I've heard 4 different renditions of "Let It Snow" and 3 "Frosty the Snowman"s, but multiple times each. At least 2 "Walking in a Winter Wonderland"s too.
Shoot me now.
They're playing Christmas music at work. All day. Every day. Until at least Dec 25th.
Wah.
I don't know if I've mentioned here or not, but I'm going to Further Confusion in January!
Anyone else I know going? Maybe someone I haven't met yet irl?
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