- Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog
According to the figures published by the Times, the answer is fairly clearly yes. There's a bit of a question as to how much better they're actually doing, but they are doing better. The only people to lose out are labels. What a shame.
Bookmarks for November 12, 2009
- YouTube – The Open Road London (1927)
This one's done the rounds a lot, but I'm going to want to look it up ater, I know I am, so here's yet another lnk to it. Colour video footage of London from 1927.
- Illegal movie download forces shutdown of free Wi-Fi | coshoctontribune.com | Coshocton Tribune
MPAA shitweasels decide that they're jsutified in fucking over an entire town's municipal internet facilities in revenge for a single download. This should not be legal. This is what the RIAA, the BPI and any other organisation that is still fighting for the now-outmoded implementation of copyright that we currently have wants the ability to do with three strikes laws, and DCMA notices and all the other apparatus of enforcement that they are accreting to themselves by lobbying – to place the risk to their profits over the common good.
Bookmarks for November 11, 2009
- Chose Your Own Adventure
Some absolutely beutiful stuff here – visualisations of the books, and the paths through them, and a on-line playable book. I am simultaneously regressing to childhood, and getting my adult design/informatics brain stimulated. Brilliant.
- Typekit
Oooh. Proper, attractive fonts for your website. OK, it'll set you back 25-50 dollars a year, and I bet most people will still set their font sizes far too small, but at least I can use it to make prettier things now.
Bookmarks for November 10, 2009
- WikiReader | Home
Wikipedia in your pocket for cheap, not reliant on network access. Seriously tempting.
- Get Excited And Make Things! « Magical Nihilism
You've seen this by now, I just want a reference so I can come back and find the print-ready files at some point.
- The Post-Game Show : Danger, Danger; Gay Marriage
Andrew's really been on top form lately. One might almost think he really cares about all this gay rights business.
Bookmarks for November 9, 2009
- YouTube – Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said
(via Del) I had never heard more of these before. They are basically awesome, and you should go and listen.
- The Maine Issue
If you haven't been paying attention to what happened in Maine last week, I strongly urge you to start here.
Bookmarks for November 2, 2009
- Vicious Imagery: New Home Office rules ban graphic novelist
Yet another example of the Home Office's new rules on artists visas hammering at the creative industry in the UK.
Bookmarks for November 1, 2009
- The internet without Net neutrality
Seriously: if you do not think it is important, or that it does not affect you, please, take a look at what your internet connection bill might look like in a few years, if net neutrality is not maintained.
Titania
Miranda’s halloween costume. Mine was not quite as awesome, but still more awesome than anything I have previously worn for Halloween. I’m not going to post the photo of me on here, because I didn’t take it, but if you’re curious as to what my Auberon outfit looked like, you can click through to Flickr and look.
Happy Halloween
Bookmarks for October 30, 2009
- exoskeleton cabaret » Blog Archive » BLISS Bombed – Please Help
Americans! Canadians! People who like nice soap! Seriously: go here, and read about a small, and by the sounds of it lovely company who have been the vistims of a lmassive fraud and through no fault of their own, could really use a few extra orders right now. Come on – the festive season is coming up – you must know someone you could buy a gift for…