brainstorms

Friday September 23, 2005

EFF in canada

this EFF announcement just landed in my mailbox. i am very pleased about it.

EFF in Canada: Protect Your Northern Rights!

EFF is pleased to announce that we are strengthening our work in Canada. We'll be tracking issues like Bill C-60 (copyright reform), "lawful access" (privacy and surveillance), and other digital rights issues that matter to Canadians. Ren Bucholz, EFF's Policy Coordinator in the Americas, is now based in Toronto, Ontario, where he'll be following these developments full time. If you're interested in staying up-to-date on EFF's work in Canada, sign up for special bulletins here: http://action.eff.org/canada

[image note: canadian flag in high key, nikon d70]

mass effect (open document)

massachusetts enterprise technical reference model is now final. i really could not care less about what microsoft does, but i would be interested to see when apple will release a version of appleworks that supports the open document format.

freedom has a mental cost. -- peter roosen-runge

in support of google print...

i strongly support the google print project. i think the authors guild's legal attack against google is deeply misguided and intellectually bankrupt, and i root for its swift demise.

So too should common sense revolt at the claims of this law suit. -- larry lessig

links: google's excellent response and UM statement

state of the onion: cooked

wohoo. another state of the onion full of wall-idation. just imagine the excitement around python and ruby circles for their yearly dose of comic relief. my favorite observation:

Cats know how to get into and out of places they're not supposed to be able to get into and out of. Cats seem to know how to levitate, and to pass through supposedly impermeable barriers. Even the stupidest cat knows how to make you think they're reading your mind, but it's all a trick.

[one good thing about larry is that even when he is obscure, thin and fragmented [read deep], he is still funnier and somewhat wiser than people like graham.]