Yesterday, TidBITS reported on an interesting development in Seattle: Seattle’s City Council has passed an emergency measure to ban free Wi-Fi access within city limits, following testimony from experts and fire officials regarding their investigation of last week’s explosion at the popular “Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit” coffeehouse.
Author Archives: paulschreiber
21 influential designers
Icon magazine covers the 21 most influential designers: everyone from ikea to creative commons.
No Headline Necessary
Design Observer catches a sign that shows great design makes words unnecessary:
DVD CCA, DMCA bite Clay Shirky in the ass
Clay Shirky tries to convert his own DVD to AVI, and the software gives him a bullshit error message: To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed. Slight problem here: Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I’M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.
best sign of March
In a This Is Broken-style moment, david yee catches a UPS Store in a bad moment.
mike lazaridis gets it
Inc. magazine has a piece on 26 most fascinating entrepreneurs. There’s Craig Newmark (for putting the free in free markets) and Mike Lazaridis, who really get it: Mike Lazaridis, whose company launched the BlackBerry in 1998, developed his philosophy of innovation as an intern at Ontario’s Control Data in the early 1980s. He often saw …
Canada Revenue minister April Fools’ locals
John McCallum told CBC radio he was launching a pilot project in Ottawa called “E-file or Else,” with long delays and even a 5 percent surcharge for paper filers.
boing boing parodies
coupla neat boing boing parodies from yesterday: Gakker: My call for sanity regarding the fair use of the brick Bricks have many legitimate uses, including shelter, crowd dispersal, and brief grandstanding against Israeli tanks, so why all the focus on the very few which are heaved through shop windows to allow for the sharing of …
Ode to the Nice Guys
This rant was written for the Wharton Undergraduate Journal.
fuzzy math, RIAA style
moses runs the numbers: There is only one logical integration of all these statistics with the recent Soundscan data: even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US – and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) – the Industry is still …