14 month ago
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading - the only Kindle link worth pointing to; how can Amazon get MP3s so right but e-books so wrong?
deusx : The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - "When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."
nelson : The future of reading - Scalpel-sharp critique of Amazon's e-book implementation
# copy
16 month ago
Andy Baio : Chief of the U.S. Copyright Office doesn't own a computer - how can a self-proclaimed luddite make policy decisions involving copyright in the digital age? [via]
deusx : Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Technophobia or payola? - "Oh wait, IT DOES SAY THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COPYRIGHT IN THE US DOESN’T OWN A COMPUTER."
Rod Begbie : Technophobia or payola? - "The person responsible for administering Copyright law in the US doesn't own a computer." This explains a *lot*. [via] #
# copy
20 month ago
Rod Begbie : SourceForge.net: Detail: 1643943 - strptime %U broken - The bug that was fixed in Python 2.5.1 which caused permalinks in my blog to break this afternoon, cause I was working around it. [via] #
# copy23 month ago
deusx : The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista - Yahoo! News - "Here's our list of Vista features that just make us wonder, "What were they thinking?""
# copy
24 month ago
deusx : rc3.org: Keep your mouse off of those links - "It seems like I'm visiting more and more Web sites that force me to make sure that I haven't mistakenly left my mouse pointer over the browser while I'm reading."
# copy
44 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How Quicken Has Lost My Trust - How Quicken Has Lost My Trust: you screw your customers and they'll walk
Nelson Minar : Trusting Quicken - or not (via Zawodny)
deusx : William Reardon's Blog: How Quicken Has Lost My Trust - "We'd be making one of the largest purchases of our life, misled by deceptive advertising embedded in Quicken."
# copy48 month ago
plasticbag : 10 Things We Learned About Blogs in 2004 - I wonder how long it will take people to stop thinking of weblogs as publishing, and start thinking about them being people interacting to diminish the role of publishing
# copy
