A wonderful story about generosity, leveraging goodwill to expand altruism, and a great way to donate $2,500 for good.
Originally published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Monthly Archives: October 2002
Investing in Hope, at $50 a Share
Sunday, October 13th, 2002
Some More Copyright Term Extension Resources
Sunday, October 13th, 2002
Two graphical representations and a good article:
Comparison of the growth rate of the public domain if unrestrained by copyright term extensions, and as hindered by extensions
Trend of Maximum U.S. General Copyright Term
The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain: Disney, The Copyright Term Extension Act, And Eldred V. Ashcroft
Dedicated To The Most Wonderful Girl On Earth :)
Sunday, October 13th, 2002
Inspired by the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, Time magazine has an article about checking for spyware on your computer. They missed my favorite spyware checker, though — SpyBot Search & Destroy. Full-featured, and it has a very cool license: “This means that I grant you the license to use Spybot-S&D as much [...]
Remember, Copyright Is Monopoly
Friday, October 11th, 2002
A recommendation by Doug Carmichael led me to Thomas Macaulay’s excellent speeches in Parliment in 1841 about the disadvantages of copyright term extension.
Eric Flint, the Baen Free Librarian, introduces them thusly:
These are two speeches given by Thomas Macaulay in Parliament in 1841, when the issue of copyright was being hammered out. They are, no other [...]
Read Arabic?
Sunday, October 6th, 2002
Speaking of world news, Ajeeb.com, a Middle Eastern Internet portal, offers a free online ArabicEnglish translation service which you can use to read, e.g., Al Jazeera.
For comparison, part of the purported bin Laden audiotape/voicemail broadcast today on Al Jazeera –
AP newswire: “By God, the youths of God are preparing for you things that would fill [...]
Rent or buy?
Saturday, October 5th, 2002
Silicon Valley software firm e*ECAD was awarded the October 2002 DisGraceful Advertising award by GraceNet, a women-in-technology organization.
e*ECAD is portraying its software licensing models on a freeway billboard with images of women: prostitute for hourly, girlfriend for term, and bride for perpetual.
e*ECAD has no comment on the billboard or GraceNet’s award.
Via the San Jose Mercury [...]
War Is Play
Friday, October 4th, 2002
With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s time to start thinking about toys. Be sure to check out the World Peace Keepers Battle Station, complete with cannon, assault weapons, grenades and sandbags; or the Forward Command Post: “Take command of your soldiers from this fully outfitted battlezone.”
Via Sandra and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Blue Sky
Thursday, October 3rd, 2002
I walked around the World Trade Center site with my brother on September 8, 2002. This is a wide-angle picture (stitched from 4 photos) of what I saw — blue sky where there should have been two big buildings.
We’re Watching
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002
Check out the unfortunate (or clever?) eye-in-keyhole “Homeland Security” graphic used for the lead story of the USPTO Pulse newsletter of April 2002.