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This weblog will be wearing a black band for the next while to mourn the death of the public domain in America. That source of so much great art, writing, and ideas is going to wither and die in the face of coporate copyright.

Yes, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Eldred in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

What does this mean? It means that any corporation with enough cash can hang onto their copyrighted materials for as long as they can afford to buy themselves a member of Congress.

Lawrence Lessig, who argued the case on behalf of Eric Eldred, has links to the #000861">decisions.

jmtee has a blog entry where he mirrors some of David Hyatt's (Safari team member) comments regarding why Apple went with KHTML over the Gecko rendering engine. David has since taken down his post, so there's some question as to why, but the stuff jmtee mirrored is insightful.

I never needed a DVD burner. Until today. I decided I need to do some much needed backing up of my personal data, and realized that my user directory is 5 GB. Now, that didn't seem big to me until I realized that to back it up will take about 8 CDRs. And that's assuming I can break my data into full 650 mb portions. Phooey.

Sebastien Paquet: Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research

UserLand's John Robb comments on what is (IMO) a pretty good article in InfoWorld about weblogs' place in the enterprise.

I forgot to link to this a while back, but after looking into it I'm doing so.

Well, I finally got around to buying a new license to OmniOutliner. I'm in planning mode for a new direction of my life, and I figured now was the time to finally spring for it.

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(What is it with the no-RSS-feed thing? Silly web site editor, expecting me to use a web browser! -))

Conversant: remember "groupware", "information management".

Currently ripping:

• Sonic Flood
• Filter - Short Bus
• BIll Miller - The Red Road
• Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
• Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle
• The Cure - Wild Mood Swings

Ok, everyone else has been going wonky over Safari, I might as well throw out a request: I want to be able to drag a file from the Finder onto a file upload form. This is 2003, people!

You, and you: RSS feed, now.

Wow. Clay Shirky is shredding the telcos and explaining the advantages of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).

A Vonage customer can make an unlimited number of unlimited-length domestic long distance calls for their forty bucks, with call waiting, call forwarding, call transfer, web-accessible voicemail and caller ID thrown in free.

JY posts an interesting idea for Safari that solves the problem (multiple browser views supported in one window) that tabbed-browsing tries to solve. I think this is more Apple-like than actual tabs would be, and I like the "persistent-between-window-closes" idea too.

Paul Boutin posts a sample KeyNote file - it's xml (quite complex) but it would be fun creating web apps that generate these.

Dad, this is for you. Want that new 17" Powerbook? Here's a tool to use on it. -)

I'm, like sure this is out there somewhere already, but if not, it should be: