Feeling silly
Silly Saturday Strikes Back
This is an excellent online game, but quite addictive. Pierce your foe with well-placed arrows. Another addictive game is Plastic Martians.
Academia
Fuck – the ultimate legal SSRN paper
Ok, so I am a bit obsessed with SSRN ratings. What does it take to have a succesful paper on SSRN? My most popular paper has only 108 downloads. Now witness Fuck by Christopher Fairman (3203 downloads and counting). Yes, Read more…
Open source
Venezuela goes free software
The Venezuelan Parliament is going to start discussing the draft legislation called “Ley de Infogobierno”, which will overhaul e-government and software procurement in the Venezuelan public sector. Although I am often sceptical about Chavez and his Venezuelan project, some aspects Read more…
Conferences
Unlocking IP Conference
The programme for the Unlocking IP Conference is now available online. This event will take place on Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 July 2006 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. The programme looks quite impressive: Michael Geist, Brian Read more…
Creative Commons
Commons creative utopia?
It has been a good week for creativity based on open licences and Creative Commons. Firstly, there have been glowing reviews about the amazing creative display that encompasses the first “open” animation, a lovely little film called Elephants Dream (I Read more…
Open source
Firefox in the news
The Daily Telegraph has published an article on why Firefox is stealing market share from Internet Explorer. Being a sticker-carrying Firefox evangelist (yes, I also own a Firefox t-shirt), I am surprised at the growing importance of the browser. I Read more…
Cyber-liberties
Freedom of expression campaign online
Amnesty International is starting a campaign in favour of freedom of expression online. The organisation claims that there is growing governmental control over blogs, chat rooms and websites where governments try to re-assert their control over cyberspace, and more importantly, Read more…
Software patents
Is the EU scrapping software patents?
I have been surprised by the coverage given to a small comment by a member of the EU Commission with regards to a question with regards to software patents. The full answer from the Commission can be found here. Most Read more…
Creative Commons
Machinima project under CC-Scotland
We have received this email from Hugh Hancock, forwarded by Prof. Hector MacQueen: Just thought you might be interested to hear about what I suspect is the largest Creative Commons project in Scotland, if not the UK as a whole. Read more…
Open source
Open Source in Europe report out
The Consortium for studying, evaluating, and supporting the introduction of Open Source software and Open Data Standards in the Public Administration (COSPA) has made available a series of documents and resource listings of open source, open data and open standards Read more…