I finally got my Ravelry invite today. I got on the waiting list about a month ago, so it didn’t take long. I spent a few minutes poking around, though I will have to be careful as it could prove to be an immense time-sink for me, with all the discussion about knitting and [...]
Here’s a fascinating piece discussing how fixed prices on books in Germany was actually pushing prices down (contrary to economic theory), while supporting a wide range of booksellers.
When I was last in Germany, apart from my usual beef about German booksellers not taking credit cards, I found no reason to complain about the range [...]
If you have children, or an interest in privacy, spend the time and watch the video of Professor Valerie Steeves discussing how children’s web sites monitor their visits. It’s scary. [Link from Michael's Geist's blog.]
After seeing this, I wonder why the schools here don’t teach more about privacy. When we were last in Australia, visiting [...]
In the midst of the U.S. housing crisis, Paul Kedrosky asks, quite reasonably, Why Do We Want People to Own Homes? I’ve been wondering that myself. Is it because people think houses are a good investment? Because they have sentimental attachments to the idea of owning the roof over their head? Because they want to [...]
Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods is a good place to start in the pantheon of the Discworld books. That’s the reason we chose it, rather than one of the many others, to read in book club. There are a couple of places where having read some of the other books would give some additional depth (the [...]
I know why it happened, but it still strikes me as odd, the fact that the goalposts kept moving, as it were, with copyright. And it’s weird no matter whether the copyright is there to give other people rights to use, copy and modify the work, or rights to the author to protect and profit [...]
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