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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Lawrence Lessig on the criminalisation of culture
Lawrence Lessig has consistently been one of the most important figures in the debate over copyright reform, ‘piracy’, and remix culture over the last decade. He’s recently switched his energies to battling the corrupting effect of PACs, lobbyists and outright bribery in the US political system, so it’s rare these days to hear him talk… Read more
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The Great Big SF Reading List
Display of ‘vintage’ science fiction titles in Chapters window Arthur C. Clark once called science fiction “The only genuinely mind expanding drug”, proof positive that he hadn’t tried any of the others. And yet, there’s something to this flippant quote. SF is the literary genre, next to the romantic novel, most often demeaned; despite this,… Read more
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Kenco Coffee
In the 17th Century one of the most shameful episodes in history began. It was for money, the love of money and for nothing else. It was dressed in the language and reasoning of Empire, of natural selection, but the cause was money. Their hands and eyes grew red with the blood while their purses… Read more
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And it all comes together…
Recently we’ve posted about right-wing nutters, bad rappers and The Beast The Daily Beast correspondent Max Blumenthal. So when I spotted this gem over on the ever brilliant Jesus’s General blog (a parody of the classic wingnut) I was unbelievable “stoked”, as it happily contains all three. Read more
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The Invisible Tour Guide
I’ve launched a new podcast called ‘The Invisible Tour Guide’. It’s my first foray into the medium since Technoloics, the humorous technology and politics vidcast I co-presented with Jason McCandless and Francis McGillicuddy, shut it’s doors way back in 2006. I’ve wanted to get back into podcasting for quite a while now. Technolotics was an… Read more
