This is an awesome idea for more direct democracy.

You can delegate your vote to someone who will represent you, but you can withdraw your vote from that person at any time without waiting for new elections.

I’ve often thought that technology will allow us all to vote on all issues (as we see fit), but this would be great – to freely nominate a representative, so you don’t then have to keep up with all the details of all important decisions. You can withdraw your vote from your representative at any time, and represent yourself, or choose another.

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This is what’s fantastic about the Internet.

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The anecdote about predicting a daughter is pregnant is brilliant. Although kinda scary :p The article also illustrates sort of extrapolation companies could do.

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Another reason to leave GoDaddy and probably to avoid American service providers.

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The results of this experiment are impressive. The font looks kind of smudgey, like old books whose type has leaked a little into the paper. However, it’s very readable, and has a lot of character (despite being ‘average’).

I like the name, too.

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This 3D printing gets more and more real. It was only about 2 years ago that I read Cory Doctorow’s stories about 3D printing and intellectual property law. Printcrime is a short story definitely worth reading.

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All pictures that includes a red bus, Big Ben and parliament, with the red-on-black-and-white effect are now owned by Temple Island

This creates a situation where anyone who owns a large library of photos — a stock photography outfit — can go through its catalog and start suing anyone with deep pockets: “We own the copyright to ‘two guys drinking beer with the bottoms of the mugs aimed skyward!’” It’s an apocalyptically bad ruling, and an utter disaster in the making.

Techdirt have more details, and highlight the fact that the judge used his judgement of the artiness to determine whether the photos are ‘copied’.

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