Author: shawn

everything that’s right is wrong again

gosh, that’s the kind of flaring distaff that makes me wince in time to the gutless wunderbahr.
ya, it seems, don’t ya, that once in a while the old fractured dispensary just keeps wallowing on in deep deep dudgeon.
crisp like fritters on an arctic day (and where have they all gone, anyway? and where will the penguins live? maybe fridgerators) or galleons on a sea of custard.

gripping lives of emperors and cold-cocked curmudgeons. everone wants to be the next pliny or tacitus. what’ll we all be reading in 10,20,30 years, anyhow? will we even be squeezing our eyes at anything at all? or will it all fwoosh right inside our heads?

me, i’m not into the idea of pop-up ads inside my head. that’d be dooper unkeen.

the hideabeds gone all squichy. and the gorgon’s got her eye on some kind of spleen ticking away in the morter boat. all the years of tears and guess who’s feeling like alice-drownd-in-tears? who acres the old feelings anymore? who tills the kindly? who reaps the dark cash machine? is there a death-of-atms? a dearth of atms?

gaspar the onion-grinder just keeps whistling in the ears. “whss whss whss” he goes. and we’re all sobby because of all that onionjuice everywhere.

sheesh.

Open Spectrum: why it’s important!

There are a lot of people, like David Weinberger, who are doing great things involving Open Spectrum. What’s open spectrum, you ask? Well, follow this link to find out!

The internet could become an amazing thing (it already is!) if it were disconnected from the physical wires and things. The US may actually be hindered by that (the presence of all those wires that took so much capital to build)…

Some new ideas for copyright

I think this idea about dealing with copyrights (courtesy of Larry Lessig) is phenomenal. Namely, creating a method to track those things which creators would like to keep out of the public domain, letting all others fall into it. This is an idea–in this information saturated world–whose time has come.

See also:
1) The Eric Eldred Act FAQ
2) This copyright term “wiki” (note: I have no idea what a “wiki” is, except for this example here)
3) Write your congressperson; I have.