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Salon is running a story on the ‘success’ of electronic music, pointing out that it rules our advertising and movie …
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Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation, begun in 1984 to promote freedom in computing by releasing free …
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Forbes has two articles critical of the patent system. “The Smother of Invention“ But there is bad news on this …
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Over the weekend the NY Times ran this article “Budding Scientists, Let Loose in a World They Can Save” which contains a …
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I just stumbled across David Brin’s brilliant essay that takes the whole mythology of Star Wars to task for being elitist, …
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The New York Times has an article on the absurdities of reading exams that are censored to remove any references that might be deemed …
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When I worked for Barnes and Noble one of my favorite recommendations for children’s picture books were the work of Jon Scieszka, …
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Two articles of note about the stock market came to mind today. The first is “Beyond Value Investing: How I Realized the Internet …
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I’ve been trying to think of ways to test or experiment on creative networks in order to discover the optimum network topology to …
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From Business Week: An interview with Prchard Purcell, the privacy czar. My job is dedicated to transferring control of information …
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