Saving Web Documents Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe

As a former academic and currently unaffiliated researcher, I feel fairly compelled to meticulously and comprehensively document my reading, including my online web reading. Years ago, I made the shift to RSS and began using client-side bookmarking software and...

Posted by mistersquid on April 27, 2010 10:04 PM

Hooked Through the Eye

I feel like a musky with all the fight gone out of him.»Jackson, Gordon. “Billy’s Girl.” Robert Shapard Ed. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. 1st ed. Salt Lake City: G.M. Smith, 1986: 180.« Last night I told one of...

Posted by mistersquid on February 24, 2010 7:38 AM

Full Speed Reverse

In the last month, there’s been a lot of mainstream media attention on the borderlands between paper print and digital print, between text and etext. Google seems to be the focus of much of this interest, and my guess...

Posted by mistersquid on September 21, 2009 11:03 AM

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

Patchwork Copyright

I am surprised by your unqualified use of the term “intelligent machines.” To apply the descriptor “intelligent” to machines assumes that intelligence can be measured across types (e.g. humans and computers) with no relationship to the specific embodiment of the...

Posted by mistersquid on November 25, 2006 12:24 PM

Election 2006: Blue is the New Black

M. Stratton and Beth Quitslund,Liz Miller (background) Such a simple and cheesy gesture sums up the initial 2006 Election results for moderates, centrists, Democrats, and liberal educators (among others). But rather than shout out, “Democratic mandate” (whatever such a thing...

Posted by mistersquid on November 8, 2006 9:44 AM

Civil Rights versus Copyright

If people had stuck to the law, black people wouldn't have the right to use restaurants and hotels. If people had stuck to the law, women wouldn't have the right to vote. If people had stuck to the law,...

Posted by mistersquid on January 27, 2005 12:00 AM

Object

The Smiley Face, perhaps one of the best known secular icons in the contemporary world, was originally created by Harvey R. Ball in 1963. He designed the Smiley Face to inspirit workers of two recently merged insurance companies. State...

Posted by mistersquid on May 20, 2001 3:14 PM