Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text

Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...

Posted by mistersquid on September 17, 2009 9:47 PM

A Number for Your Blackbook

This number 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0is the HD-DVD Processing Key used by AACS (Advanced Access Content System) to decrypt content for HD-DVD playback. A technique which utilizes this number has been implemented in a software program called BackupHDDVD.My posting this number on this...

Posted by mistersquid on May 2, 2007 9:54 AM

Cautious optimism

This is huge. Huger than huge. This augurs the possibility that license holders may once again implicitly (and by default) allow fair use of copyrighted material.Congress, are you listening?...

Posted by mistersquid on April 2, 2007 11:23 AM