Getting old? Starting to forget things? The miracle cure is here! Blueberry juice! Remember your birthday, where you forgot your keys, the names of your grandchildren! Also — it’s delicious!
(photo can be traced back to here — does it go further? Is that the photographer? We do not know.)
The editor of the Independent believes that everything on Flickr is public domain, and can be used in their newspaper without having to pay for or credit their photos. If one actually reads his comments, he seems to be making the claim that if a rights-holder makes something available via the Internet, they automatically give up all rights. Strange, that.
Do you roleplay? Do you want to help people in Haiti? Then break out your roleplaying-game money and help them! If you donate $20 to Doctor’s Without Borders via Drive-Thru RPG, they’ll give you free roleplaying PDFs that would otherwise cost $1,000 — although it may take a few days to actually download them, as the offer is creating a wee bit of a strain on their servers.
One of the most fascinating things I have read on the Internet in a long time is this interview with an anonymous Facebook employee, where they talk largely about privacy, and a little bit about weirdos on Facebook. It’s worth reading.
(Audrey Deluxe performs Burlesque as Boba Fett. Photo by Shannon Cottrell. More here.)
New York. Subway. No pants. That’s just the way they roll.
Book burning might be out of fashion, but thepublicdomain.org argues here that gradual changes to copyright law over the past fifty years are accomplishing the same thing.
Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland is coming to theatres in March, and the first trailer has been released online:
New Scientist has its own take on the story, believing it not to be an allegory about drug use, but instead an expression of Carroll’s dislike of algebra — he was more of a geometry man.
