Where’s Shakespeare?

“What is BookCrossing, you ask? […] the books our members leave in the wild are free… but it’s the act…

Government Responds in Eldred v. Ashcroft

The government has filed their response brief (PDF) in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case. What they’re responding to is Lessig…

Reading in your Aggregator

Mark Pilgrim struggles with RSS feeds and aggregators: ‘I don’t use my aggregator to read things; I use it to…

Ethics By Analogy

For some reason I really learn a lot about things by analogy. I’m not sure if this is because my…

Standards and the Law

Is the W3C illegal? While reading some relatively unrelated things I found a message where djb discussed US requirements for…

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