I’ve been meaning to write about this past Tuesday’s Fair Copyright for Canadians Meet & Greet event at the Gladstone – however a few things came up in the meantime (a blizzard, a power outage, a road trip to Kingston, a 24-hr LAN party, and a craving for homemade baked goods, among other things). Continue reading
While sifting through a cardboard box of books last week in the basement of my parent’s house, I came across Glenn Reynolds’ 2006 book An Army of Davids: How markets and technology empower ordinary people to beat Big Media, Big Government and other Goliaths. Apparently it had gone unnoticed and was mistakenly placed in a neglected stack of books (along with my copy of William Gibson’s Spook Country!). Continue reading
Hip-Hop producer AmpLive has put together a superb 8-track remix/tribute project to Radiohead‘s In Rainbows album. After some legal/copyright disputes, his pleas over YouTube to release the album on the web for free were finally acknowledged. It’s well worth the listen. Continue reading
I was born in 1986. We can refer to myself and other children born in this decade as “Generation Y”, for a lack of a better term. We were the age group that reached maturity in the early 2000′s, and as we seem to share some of the tendencies and habits of Generation X / “The Slacker Generation”, I’d prefer not to be lumped in with the kids born a few years later in the early 90′s (see the Mindset of the class of 2011) – a group who I seem to identify far less with. Continue reading
I’ve been meaning to get to writing about this game, but I’ve been sick this past week, and sleeping as much as possible.