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The Copyleft

The Copyleft
I’ve been reading and watching a lot on copyright laws recently and it is utterly fascinating.
Probably the best movie I’ve seen so far is the documentary, RiP! A Remix Manifesto. The director, Brett Gaylor, not only made a great piece on the stifling effect copyright law has on creativity in this country, but he also started Open Source, which encourages remixing and expanding upon videos. The below video is footage of Girl Talk from the film that was remixed.

Good Copy, Bad Copy‘s another good movie to watch.

Also, be sure to visit the Creative Commons site.

And thanks to Drew for sending me an essay by Cory Doctorow entitled Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future. Cory appears in “RiP!” and is co-editor over at Boing Boing. I’m super excited to start reading that.

For a movie on how overaggressive “ownership” damages the realm of food and genetics check out The Future of Food (Official Site).

Remix and rejoice!

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Intel “Sponsors of Tomorrow” Ads


These new ads by Intel are great! I especially like the people singing the jingle at the end.

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10 Facebook Privacy Settings You Should Know

Privacy on Facebook
I’m a person torn between my need for privacy and a desire to keep in touch with my friends who span the country. AllFacebook offers up this article to help with keeping your profile, photos, etc. free from eyes you don’t want there. Extremely useful; I’ve already enacted a few of them.
Via The Consumerist

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Do you want to live forever?

Aubry DeGrey
Yesterday I came across a documentary (called Do You Want to Live Forever?) about this man, Aubry DeGrey, a man who says he has figured out how to cure aging. Imagine not only living much much longer, but living those years in the best of health. He has his critics and you can judge for yourself, but you cannot deny his passion for this.

A true maverick, Aubrey de Grey challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human condition — that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease — one that can be cured if it’s approached as “an engineering problem.” His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them — forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death. He calls the approach Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).

Quoted from TED
For further reading here is De Grey’s website: MFoundation-The SENS Platform and his simple Wiki page.

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Crayon Physics


I am so so so impressed! I would spend hours playing that!

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a sequel to the popular freeware game Crayon Physics. Or you can think of it as the game I would have created if I would have had more than 7 days to do it. Way more than 7 days. More like 7 months or 17 months.

Anyway Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

The game features:
• Greatly improved physics (you can draw what ever you want)
• Huge number of new levels
• Easy to use level editor

You can read more about the game from my blog. Also you can test the original prototype which is freely available. But please understand that the prototype isn’t a demo version of this game and doesn’t reflect the quality of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

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