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- Lost Garden: Nintendogs: The case of the non-game that barked like a game [gamedesign games]
–"Creating successful innovative games like Nintendogs is wholely a matter of hard work and a deep understanding of the game design process" - Hacknot – The Crooked Timber Of Software Development [ethics programming]
–On the difference between "Occupation" and "Profession" as it concerns software development - Dana Epp’s ramblings at the Sanctuary: To All Game Authors: QUIT BEING MORONS!!!! [games punkbuster security tech]
–"You are insane if you think I am going to allow a remote download of maps and executable content as administrator on custom servers." - Stay of Execution: Request Day: Fighting Self-Loathing [gtd self-doubt]
–"But in conversations, with almost everybody, I’ve been asking the question, "How can I help you?" " - Copyriot: Florian Cramer om ord som blir kött [media society toread]
–"Det handlar om mjukvara, eller snarare om computation (ordet ter sig i sammanhanget svåröversättligt), i bred bemärkelse" - FunReports.Com: Noise-making CD to take revenge on noisy neighbors available [evil fun stuff]
–"The list of noise-making tracks includes: 1. Drill. 2. Party (at least 200 People). 3. Orgasm (Outstanding). 4. Train. 5. Drum (Played by a Child)." - LawGeek: The Difference Between Software and Drug Patents [intellectualproperty swpat]
–"However, the key distinction between a drug and a method for using a computer is that few of us own the equipment or have the desire to manufacture drugs" - Preshrunk: Throw What You Know [t-shirts]
–The noble art of settling the score - Infothought: Jennifer Granick on Defending Mike Lynn (Cisco/ISS router disclosures) [cisco law lawsuits mikelynn]
–"At the point that you get sued, or even charged with a crime, it matters less what actually happened and whether you did something wrong and more what it takes to get out of the case as unscathed as possible" - The Patry Copyright Blog: Bill Gates and Software Copyright [copyrights intellectualproperty law]
–on the use of copyright for protecting software programs (as opposed to other intellectual property mechanisms) - The Becker-Posner Blog: Islamist Violence and Immigration Policy–Posner [politics toread]
–"[...] brings into focus important issues of immigration policy, and, more fundamentally, of the different economic and cultural models of the United States and Western Europe" - Boing Boing: Anti-software-patent site taken down by software patent advocates [chillingeffects ffii swpat]
–"Nutzwerk sent a bogus takedown notice to Teamware, who host the DNS for FFII.org, and got them to remove the DNS record for FFII.org." - Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � Entertainment Industry Pretending to Have Won Grokster Case [grokster law p2p]
–On hearings in the aftermath of Grokster - Freedom to Tinker � Blog Archive � Cisco Claims Its Product is a Trade Secret [cisco law mikelynn security tech]
–Interesting commentary on the Cisco vs Mike Lynn case - GROKLAW – New EU Law Proposed – Criminal Sanctions for IP Infringement [eu intellectualproperty law]
–"Proposal for a COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION to strengthen the criminal law framework to combat intellectual property offences" - Pure CSS menus [css webdesign]
–"This uses just CSS 2 to turn nested lists into a working menu and does NOT use any JavaScript." - Lawrence Lessig: Jimbo Wales: Free the Curriculum! [bluesky creativecommons wikipedia]
–Jimbo "Wikipedia" Wales is guestblogging on what will be free in the future - This Is Broken – Hennessy ad [alcoholism broken disturbing marvingaye]
–"Did nobody mention that this icon’s life was cut tragically shot when he was shot by his alcoholic father?" - MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make DRM-free ebooks for the Sony Librie e-ink ebook reader (part I) [drm ebooks librie tools]
–"But the hackers and tinkerers of the world have taken this device and modded the firmware. Now we’re going to show you how to make non-DRMed ebooks for free…" - Free Software: Temptation Blocker – WebJillion [fun tools]
–Keeps you from starting your favourite procrastination tools during work hours
