Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing says that SFWA may have used the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to inappropriately request the removal of numerous works from a site called Scribd. (I’ll link to SFWA’s statement when they post it.) Instead of bashing SFWA, I want to relate a positive experience I recently had with Creative Commons [...]
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Aug 19, 2007
|Martial Arts
I’m sitting here at Lulu’s, hopped up on Advil and coffee, trying not to move my neck. Let me tell you about my weekend, and two very different experiences with the same concept. Pushing Hands In Tai Chi class on Friday, we did pushing hands. This exercise is done with a partner, very slowly, and [...]
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Aug 9, 2007
|Life Stuff, Los Angeles
Cairo woke me up just before it hit. Some cats will approach slowly, purring, and nuzzle you awake. Not Cairo. His primary display of affection is a skull slam to my chin, followed by a generous slathering of wet nose. Yum. In any case, that’s why I was awake when the earthquake hit around 1:00 [...]
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