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Police guitarist Andy Summers demonstrates Thomas Jefferson's point

After reading Sting's memoir recently, which ends just as he is starting to find success with The Police, I read Andy Summers's One Train Later: A Memoir, mostly wanting to learn more about The Police. From his younger years, there was this passage which made me think of the popular Thomas Jefferson quote about ideas [...]

Free Culture (Briefly)

The free culture movement, according to a recent Wikipedia revision, is "a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media. The movement objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, or completely reject the concepts of copyright and intellectual property, which many members of the [...]

The Phone Book is Here!

Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - [...]

Monday Photopost: Quebec City Wall Mural

Stacy Cashman has some great pictures of wall murals in Quebec City at her Rambling Traveler blog. Go there to learn more about the murals and see the uncropped and larger version of the picture below and two others.
I love the detail with the birds and the balloon having shadows. I also [...]

A Free Culture Acorn Sprouts

I keep half an eye on references to this site by using feeds from Google News and Blog Search to catch links to here or mentions of the site (or me).

A lot of times the feeds turn up some crummy splog scraping my content. A lot of people get up in arms about this, [...]

Unbounded Freedom

The billblog pointed me to a new book and blog about Creative Commons licensing, by Rosemary Bechler.
I enjoyed contributing some scattered and rambling observations to discussions here and here. I enjoyed it for the chance to fire off some thoughts, but not so much as a debate. This is one of those debates [...]