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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You can learn more about ACTA here. One of the main concerns is that it’s another attempt to punish people based on accusations without due process and without processes for accused to defend themselves.

ACTA has made it past the UK government with no input from stakeholders (e.g. the public) or discussion by parliament. The trade agreement is now in the European Parliament, so we should now get a chance to prevent it being put in place. Apparently it will be discussed some time after June.

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It’s finished. I will definitely be watching this later.

It’s a crowd-sourced remake of the original Star Wars film. It was cut up into 15 second slices, then anyone could choose a slice, and remake it.

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I’ve not seen the new ‘search, plus your world’ results in my Google, yet, but this plugin is amusing.

 It looks at the three places where Google only shows Google+ results and then automatically googles Google to see if Google finds a result more relevant than Google+.

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