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What are the world's root problems? How to Fix Copyright: the video Ice-sculpture AT-AT Rudy Rucker's new imprint launches with his complete short stories Repo Man director urges fans to "pirate a bunch of my stuff right away" World is a happier place than it was before the financial crisis began Save Disney World from Disneylandification What are the world's root problems?
By Cory Doctorow on Feb 26, 2012 12:47 pm Philipp Lenssen sez, "I've set up RootStrike as a minimalist site for easy referencing of root problems in online discussions. Problems -- like the corrupting system of US campaign funding -- which, if solved, would also help us a lot in solving many other problems. The site was inspired by Lawrence Lessig's book Republic, Lost, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 26, 2012 11:54 am Here's a video of Google's head copyright lawyer Bill Patry (one of America's foremost copyright scholars) discussing his brilliant latest book How to Fix Copyright with copyfighting record exec Jim Griffin. Social Music Summit 2012 - How to Fix Copyright (Thanks, Joly!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 26, 2012 09:49 am Bill Lin snapped this picture of a ice-sculpture AT-AT in Bend, OR, made with chisel and chainsaw. This is just a little thumbnail, click through to see the full image at Kotaku. AT-ATs make surprisingly good fanac fodder. Right At Home On Hoth (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 26, 2012 09:00 am Rudy Rucker has launched his own press, Transreal Press, and has inaugurated it with a massive single-volume collection of his complete short stories and a reissue of his long out-of-print steampunk classic The Hollow Earth. There's also a drool-worthy list of upcoming titles, including his complete essays, complete paintings, his journals, and much more. Transreal ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 26, 2012 05:28 am Alex Cox, director of the classic Repo Man, talks with The Quietus's Craig Terlino about his frustrations with the entertainment industry, the alleged longstanding studio grudge that's prevented a US Repo Man Blu-Ray reissue, and his desire that his fans should "pirate my work." It's so corrupt. Now they want to have longer copyright periods ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 25, 2012 09:36 pm Research company Ipsos asked 19,000 adults in 24 countries how happy they are. Turns out they are pretty happy, even (especially?) people in poor countries. Some 77% of respondents now describe themselves as happy, up three points on 2007, the last year before the crisis. Fully 22% (up from 20%) describe themselves as very happy—a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 25, 2012 05:20 pm More fantastic, barn-storming Disney theme park theory from Passport to Dreams Old and New: On Integrity, an indictment of the wholesale destruction of the unique identity of Florida's Walt Disney World and its replacement with generic theming imported from Disneyland. "I love Disneyland dearly, but when it comes to Walt Disney World -- to hell ...
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