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I finally took the time out to watch Good Copy Bad Copy, a recent doc­u­men­tary explor­ing the con­tem­po­rary clash of copy­right and cul­ture and pos­si­bil­i­ties for the future. In keep­ing with the theme, you can watch or down­load it for free via their web­site. An unof­fi­cial trailer…This video was embed­ded using the YouTu­ber plu­gin by […]

In a Tele­graph arti­cle I read (via Arts & Let­ters Daily), Richard Dawkins has made the hoax-like move of announc­ing his plans to step down from his teach­ing posi­tion and write a book “aimed at young­sters in which he will warn them against believ­ing in ‘anti-scientific’  fairy­tales.” Although he admits he hasn’t read ‘Harry Pot­ter’ he is greatly con­cerned that […]

How Eng­lish Is Evolv­ing Into a Lan­guage We May Not Even Under­stand  —  An engag­ing arti­cle in Wired explor­ing the future evo­lu­tion of the Eng­lish lan­guage. It is sober­ing and some­what ironic to con­sider that Eng­lish, with its incred­i­ble capac­ity to absorb other lan­guages, is grow­ing and devel­op­ing most out­side of what we con­sider ‘Eng­lish nations.’ It […]