Glyn sez, "The same French president who has for the second time brought in three strikes to France has for the second time been caught infringing copyright on a large scale. The presidential audiovisual services have produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52-minute documentary 'A visage decouvert... More.
EFF's Fred von Lohmann explains with a great deal of clarity and precision why MediaFire is out of its mind to send legal threats over a Firefox plugin, SkipScreen, that auto-clicks through its ad-screens. It comes down to this: your browser is your browser, and you can auto-click, rewrite, block, ... More.
JWZ found this description of a button on the remote for his new projector: "If the picture size is compressed or enlarged by using the 16:9 aspect ratio when the projector is used for profitable purpose or in the presence of an audience (for example, in a coffee shop or at a hotel etc.), it may inf... More.
Jordan sez, "The IOC, believing that it owns the photos in your shoebox, sent a takedown notice to Richard Giles, AWIA member and rather good photographer. I took notice, as we in Vancouver are about to play host to the 2010 Winter Games. It will be impossible to point your camera at anything in thi... More.
You remember that Ralph Lauren marketing image featuring an implausible thin model whose head is bigger than her pelvis? The one that prompted Ralph Lauren's marketing arm to send us a legal threat because we made fun of it?
Yeah, that one.
Well, Natasja Capelle, a freelance designer, has detouc... More.
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Some tetraminoes are more equal than others it seems.
I've seen this so many times now and I still think it's a great idea.
Not actually Tetris, whose shapes and colours are mandated by a standard put out by Alexy Pazhitnov's Tetris Company LLC.
Not even non-standard tetris ... some of the shapes are made from 3 squares or 5 squares on the face.
Now ... THESE guys ( http://www.bravespacedesign.com/product_tetris_flat.php ) have "tetris storage" that gets the features right - although maybe not the colours.
And this bunch ( http://tetrisfurniture.com/products/ ) only produce one shape (the T), but that's the really flexible shape.
How about pentomino furniture, a la Clarke's Imperial Earth? You get all twelve pieces, and then have to figure out how to stack them in various rectangular configurations.
(Memories .. I read Imperial Earth with only one eye!)
I'm amazed no one's done soma cube furniture
http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/somacube.htm
Although Arne Jacobsen collaborated with Piet Hein on a super ellipse table which is still in production.
I get a new bookcase of some sort about every six months, and so my little home office is just like an ongoing game of tetris. Now all I have to do is paint everything the right colors.
A word of warning: it may be tempting to line these up into perfectly aligned rows, but please don't. Trust me on this one.