links for 2006-12-29

• Lawrence Lessig
  So there’s an important distinction developing among “user generated content” sites — the distinction between sites that permit “true sharing” and those that permit only what I’ll call “fake sharing.”
  (tags: web2.0 sharing)

links for 2006-12-16

• AMAZON NOIR ~ The Big Book Crime
  The Amazon Noir Robots (Sucker01-12) used the frontdoor to access the huge digital library of Amazon.com. They tricked around with Amazon.coms “Search Inside the Book” function until it gave away the complete volumes of copyright protected books.
  (tags: hacking art)

links for 2006-12-13

• SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check – Valleywag
  Second Life, the much-hyped virtual world backed by Benchmark Capital, is heading towards two million users. Except it isn’t, really. We all know how this game works, and has since the earliest days of the web
  (tags: secondlife internet journalism)

links for 2006-12-05

• Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Rotary Reading Desk
  A beautiful and ingenious machine, which is very useful and convenient to every person who takes pleasure in study
  (tags: history reading furniture book)

links for 2006-12-02

• cre.ations.net – Creation: The Time Fountain
  It all started when my friend Jesse told me that if you get a strobe light fast enough, you can make it look like dripping water is going in slow motion or even backwards. This phenomenon happens because strobe lights can ‘capture’ an instant in time and
  (tags: DIY Art electronics)
• TheStar.com – Full interview with Richard Stursberg (Nov. 25)
  The two big areas where we have failed completely, really, is to make successful, distinctively Canadian, popular television programs and films. And we’re the only country in the industrialized world that has failed to do that. The only one.
  (tags: film canada)