As I sit here working on a forthcoming article—Super-Intermediaries, Code, Human Rights—about powerful internet intermediaries and human rights, I was intrigued to come across Julian Assange’s op-ed in Saturday’s New York Times entitled The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’. Assange, the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, has harsh words for Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of the […]
The clip is from Crazy People with Dudley Moore and Paul Reiser. The treatment of brands is especially crazy. I have to wonder in today’s product-placement culture: would a major studio permit a scene like this today? YouTube video link via anon0mouse on BoingBoing. Cross-posted at Infoglut Tumblr.
Working as a sales clerk in a second-rate London bicycle shop, an adult Harry Potter amuses himself by turning coat hangers into bicycles. When his Muggle supervisor returns, wacky antics ensue. Obliviate! Patent art via Context-Free Patent Art. Cross-posted to The Digital Garbage Net.
See above for illustration accompanying an issued patent for A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion. This method is routinely employed and likely infringed by most law students when first confronted with Fed. R. Civ. P. 19(a) and 19(b) regarding Joinder of Required Parties, as amply illustrated by the appropriately numbered illustrations above. Note for example […]
