Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
German copyright law grants an author copyright for 70 years after their death. Hitler died in 1945 so that means “Mein Kampf” will enter the public domain in that country in 2015. Or will it? There is a well-known German law banning the dissemination of Nazi ideologies which was put in place after the […]
Then remember this as the second decade of the new millennium begins. This year should be referred to as “twenty-ten”, not “two-thousand ten” (no matter what the Vancouver Olympics are being hyped as.) And yes, I know it's not technically the start of the new decade until next year but just like everyone celebrating […]
We went to Indian Head to have an early Christmas with my folks this weekend and at one point my mom suggested renting a movie to keep Pace entertained. It did not even cross my mind that she meant VHS movie instead of DVD (let alone streaming video or BitTorrent or some of the other […]
Linking to this post is becoming another annual blog tradition… I don't know if the Army was where Grandpa got into the habit of wearing his hats just slightly askew but it was something he did for the rest of his life. And without guidance or instruction from us, Pace has picked up the same […]
Does anybody know why a company would prevent embedding of their YouTube clips? Just to maintain control of how their content is presented I guess? (This is also the first YouTube clip I've seen with a short ad embedded in front of it as well – hmmm, is that a new Google initiative or did […]
Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices. Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]
I can't help but use my “Digital Footprints” tag on this story! “The landscape depicted corresponds exactly to the surrounding geography,” she said. “Complete with herds of ibex marked on one of the mountains visible from the cave itself.” The research, which is published in the latest edition of the Journal of Human Evolution, furthers […]
