Citizen Bane

I’ve been wanting to write an article on the Creative Commons music scene for a while.  This is a subject that I find fascinating and quite honestly really inspirational.  As a precursor for the uninitiated let me first try to quickly explain the concept of Creative Commons.  Creative Commons is an Not for Profit Organization that released a number of licences freely to the public.  Unlike pure copyright, these licences allow the creator to indicate which rights they wish to either waive or reserve.

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I don’t know how many of you are following the plight of Canadian copyright reform.  I am.  I’m not sure why; I have no stake per se.  I do not produce content on which I rely on copyright enforcement for remuneration.  As far as I’m concerned the material I produce at least with respect to my writing on this blog is Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives,  meaning pass it around as much as you want for free, but mention my name, don’t charge money for it and don’t alter it or add to it.  It is what it is.  I suppose my interest in copyright and copyright laws stem from the implications it has on us in everyday life, especially the implication to those of us who contribute content to the internet.

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I just couldn’t resist. To be honest, I’m tired of hearing about the about which operating system is best. In fact, I got tired of that shit about 10 years ago. Use whatever works for you. Lately I’m diggin’ Debian. I know that OS X is based on parts of FreeBSD and NetBSD UNIX, but I still couldn’t resist making this…

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Just got sent this link to a rather fascinating website hosted by the University of Utah. The link below will give you an idea of just how small some of the smallest known things really are. It’s totally dorky science stuff, but pretty humbling at the same time. Click here to check it out…