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 [...]

A Library is a Vault for Locking Up Books

Apparently.

U'S DEAL WITH GOOGLE
Disrespect for property
If I were to walk into a photocopy shop and ask for a duplicate of a copyright-protected book, the shop workers would show me the door. It does not matter whether I intended to distribute snippets of the text around the world or do anything else with the copy -- [...]

Makin' Copies! 'The Promise of a Post-Copyright World'

Remember the Richmeister character from SNL? One of Rob Schneider's recurring characters. The sketches were funny, although it was the kind of potent stuff that quickly got overplayed.
The catchphrase--Makin' Copies!--occurred to me today in the wake of several things I've been reading about copying. When I looked around I found this transcript [...]

Architecture of Annoyance

If you found this post looking for how to make the HP Scanjet 2400 Scanner work in GNU/Linux, perhaps this post will help you: Yes, your HP Scanjet 2400 might work in Ubuntu and maybe even other flavors of GNU/Linux.
This isn't so much an Architectures of Control kind of item, but Dan Lockton's post about [...]