For anyone who believed that Hollywood is any more interested in free expression of ideas than, say, Microsoft, I want to point out a little story that will probably get a lot less airtime than Angelina Jolie’s attempt to ban Fox News from the premiere of a film about the Read more…
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Ok, I’m playing catchup here, but I just found Mark Helprin’s article about Copyright. John Scalzi has a decent response to all that and others have gone on at length. But there was a quote from Helprin I had to comment on: Were you to have ushered through the many Read more…
Continuing the prior meme * Behold the Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Moorecock * Brave New Worlds of the Imperium by Aldous Laumer * The Man Who Sold the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein II * The Eyes of the Dragonriders of Pern Read more…
Ok, I think K/S has begun to reach some sort of apotheosis: from Maureen McHugh’s blog: Oh, and if you liked that, you’ll love this:
Microsoft seems to be in the vanguard, defending a 19th Century economic model for IP law. Not only has it deformed the purpose of its operating system into one giant copy-protection scheme, but now it’s attacking open-source software vendors with vague threats of patent violations. Here’s the problem in a Read more…
Q: What is the best way to inflame and alienate the the SF blogosphere? A: Call everyone who publishes their work on the internet a webscab (don’t pick it, it may become infected) Check out the blogstorm Dr. Hendrix has started, here, and here, and here, oh, here‘s one, or Read more…
You should know (and if you follow this blog, you do) that the SF Signal Blog maintains a listing of SF authors who blog. Most of these blogs have an RSS feed posted on the page as well. Now a few days ago I ran across the new feature of Read more…
Quick little factoid— You can use Feedburner to analyze traffic stats, and one juicy tidbit they provide is the search phrase for people who actually Googled up this site. Some make sense, but some of the others. . . “Definition Pink World” “define am in pink” “in what sense science Read more…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a guide that serves as a good counterpoint to an earlier post of mine about the ugly interaction between politics and science. The only problem is that the examples are U.S.-centric and post-2001 so it’s a little lopsided (i.e. the current American bureaucracy Read more…