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by riordan 15y ago
You can listen to the whole show here: http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/441.mp3
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When Patents Attack(thisamericanlife.org)
109 points by riordan 15y ago|14 comments
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by riordan 15y ago
As a former copyright activist, we used to hold up "Happy Birthday To You" as the quintessential example of everyday activities that were copyright infringements, like when Lawrence Lessig went through the formalities to perform the song at
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by riordan 15y ago
Fridge built a really amazing product - Social groupware for people outside of Facebook. I'll be sad to see it go. I wonder if the team is going to be moved out to Mountain View or stay in NYC?
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by riordan 15y ago
And here I was thinking this was a post about the MySpace deal.
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by riordan 15y ago
Sounds a lot like William Gibson's idea of The Ugliest T-shirt in the World from his novel 'Zero History' [See: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/09/03/william-gibson/2... ]. In it, a certain object triggers all cameras to stop recordi
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Microsoft to buy Skype for $7 billion(online.wsj.com)
421 points by riordan 15y ago|271 comments
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by riordan 16y ago
Meanwhile, the FCC's enforcement chief just put out a press release decrying cell/GPS jammers saying they "create safety risks". http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0209...
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by riordan 16y ago
I work for the New York Public Library, and believe me, we wish we could be open all day every day. Last year, city budget cuts took the libraries in Queens and Brooklyn from 6 day service to 5, and we managed to keep NYPL open 6 days, but
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by riordan 16y ago
As an NYPL staffer and Hacker News junkie, I can't tell you how much I appreciate seeing this listed here. Before I joined the library, I'd come here all the time just to get work done. Now I come here to work. Anyway, if you go a few block
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Steven Berlin Johnson - The Glass Box and the Commonplace Book(stevenberlinjohnson.com)
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by riordan 17y ago
It really reminds me of BillMonk ( http://billmonk.com - sort of defunct since they haven't renewed their SSL certificate), a project that was the genesis of Obopay back in 2006. It was very similar to split-the-bill and had a strong emph
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by riordan 17y ago
Great idea - now to just resubmit it as its own topic so it hits critical mass.
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by riordan 17y ago
Have there been any invites sent out from HN so far - I've yet to see any replies indicating they have
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by riordan 17y ago
Brilliant! I've been using Highrise to similarly organize my job search, however your approach is fantastically elegant and will probably begin using the two in tandem. I've found that the networking aspects of jobseeking are not only crit
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by riordan 17y ago
Ready to help share the love: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01LFw2DghhL80PGp8lLdb27w==...