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“Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.”
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An interesting take on Cloverfield (JJ Abrams’ hand-held Godzilla in New York film) being the closest of a September 11 film to date (both due to the level of destruction, and the way it’s shot).
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Mashup of Hillary Clinton’s run in the democratic primaries juxtaposed against Reese Witherspoon’s remarkably similar character from the film Election. A lovely mashup!
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They’ve found a way to make yeast live ten times its normal lifespan, and now the question is whether a similar alteration might work on humans! (Seriously, though, who’s going to retire at 65 when they need 725 years of superannuation?)
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“… the Doctor is more likely to overthrow the government on alien planets, or in the distant future. When he visits present-day Earth or our history, he’s an arch-conservative.” (Compares Doctor’s politics withe those of the UK party in power.)
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A lovely booklet which details a lot of case studies in which Creative Commons licenses are meaningfully used in Asian countries and Australia. (The PDF is about 10Mb, but well worth a read.)
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“After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book for free.”
