Sunday afternoon, quiet on the eastern front

[cleolinda]

Still soldiering on with the annotations. I've noticed that fear doesn't work very well as a motivator for me; if I get stressed or tense, I just freeze up and can't work at all. So I'm trying to think of some small reward to look forward to, because that'll put me in a positive mood ("YAY!") as opposed to a rocking-back-and-forth mood ("They're coming to repossess the oven, nooooooo...").

Re: Cassie Edwards: Once again, Nora Roberts is full of win and joy. The relevant section of comment thread starts here; Roberts starts pwning here.

From foresthouse: Creative Commons sued for deception. foresthouse has also pulled the highlights of her Orphan Works Act paper for those of you who want the short version.

SANS solves mystery of mass Web site infections.

Teen accused of planting nuts in lunch of allergic classmate.

Oregon cop battles 12-foot python to save pet store owner.

Snickers the Sea Dog rescued.

trailer_spot: The Spirit, Hamlet 2, Savage Grace, Wackness, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

New ‘Dark Knight’ Trailer Screened To Jubilant Fans At NY Comic Con; New Dark Knight Trailer Shows Perils Of Bat-Romance. As you may recall, Rachel Dawes walked away from Bruce Wayne at the end of the last movie all the better to facilitate a change of actress.

Dawn Treader Begins Filming in October in Mexico.

NYCC: 'The Incredible Hulk'; NYCC: Tony Stark's Cameo in 'The Incredible Hulk' Revealed; New Hulk Photos, Tie-in Marketing.

Trailer Premiere: Frank Miller’s ‘The Spirit.’

Humans for the Ethical Treatment of Fairies, Elves and Trolls - HETFET.org ('Hellboy II: The Golden Army').

Del Toro on The Hobbit, Hellboy II & New Project; Seth MacFarlane Voicing Hellboy II's Johann Kraus.

New York Comic-Con Gallery Up at Coming Soon.

'Bond' car plunges into lake.

Soderbergh Keeps Tweaking Guevara Films. Yes, in the plural.

Comments

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

Can you explain what that creative commons thing was? Was it that he labeled his stuff with a cc license and that means they can poach his pics?

[kali921.livejournal.com]

The trailer for the The Spirit is so utterly full of fail. I would start to iterate why it's a travesty against Eisner's brilliant source material, but I can't get past the fact that the studio gave Frank Miller billing above WILL EISNER. That's like giving Rob Liefeld billing above Alex Toth.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Creative Commons has a whole bunch of different licenses with varying levels of protection from copying. It sounds like this family chose a license that didn't offer the level of protection that they really wanted. CC does spell out in great detail and in clear, non-lawyerly language exactly what rights you're giving away.

Have a look at their licences (http://creativecommons.org/license/). You can see that the page asks you questions about what rights you want people to have. There is nothing deceptive.

Additionally, the author of that article, Andrew Orlowski, has a long-time feud with Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, and all aspects of free culture.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Orlowski have a feud with everyone?

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

More on Andrew Orlowski (the author of the Register article) and his interactions with Cory Doctorow. (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/correcting-the-recor.html)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Seems like it.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of 'meh' towards Nora Roberts, the author. But Nora Roberts, the person? Rocks my world.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Boy, I do NOT think it's Creative Commons' fault that this photographer can't read...

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

Oh wow...the snake thing happened in the city where I live...

I hadn't even heard about that...

Good to know we have a fast-acting police force I guess...

:)

cheers

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Creative Commons was dropped from that lawsuit:

http://lessig.org/blog/2007/11/from_the_whyagcfromcravathisgr.html

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

The courts agreed with you: http://lessig.org/blog/2007/11/from_the_whyagcfromcravathisgr.html

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Hmm, thanks for the link on the creative commons thing. I decided to revise some of the CC licenses on stuff I had because even though I chose attribution-nonderivative-noncommercial, there is still some stuff I don't want getting out there, stuff I have made for friends and such.

This sort of thing seems to have been getting more and more press lately, which I think is good. Plagiarism and copyrights and all that stuff I think is really important. =) Thanks for keeping up with all of it!

[kookaburra1701.livejournal.com]

*waves to fellow Eugenian*

But I wonder how they are going to sell the snake now.

"Is the snake good with people?"

"Oh, sure. Though there was that one time it bit me, wrestled me to the floor and we had to call the police to get it off of me, but other than that she's a doll."

"...I think we'll keep looking."

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

LMAO...it does make the slant on selling the snake more interesting...

I suppose someone could buy it if they were looking for a slow way to dispose of human bodies...

*waves back*

cheers!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Brittannica to be free to bloggers (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/18/encyclopedia-britannica-now-free-for-bloggers/)

This is really the silliest policy ever. They actually come and check your blog out to make sure you are suitably important before they give you access.

[sneaky-minx.livejournal.com]

Eep, yes, fear is such a paralyzer! My self-reward lately has been photoshopping. Cookies, too. Cookies work wonders. *sends you cookies*

[edda.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's sadder, the fact that that's true, or the fact that once it might have only just been true. IMO, anyway. But those days? GONE.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Teen accused of planting nuts in lunch of allergic classmate.

The mental image I got from that was way funnier than the reality that dispelled it after I clicked on the link.

[imitatesfiction.livejournal.com]

You should think of the money we'll pay for the annotations as money for boobs cookies. Only they are v. expensive cookies. Or whatever makes you go YAY.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

At least I wasn't the only one... *cough*

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

Nora Roberts FTW. She's a little too lace and sunshine for my particular romance tastes, but she is seriously one classy lady.

That peanuts thing just blows my mind and sort of terrifies me. Seriously, what the hell? It's people like that who make it hard for me to trust anyone else with my food. It only takes one idiot thinking "Oh, a little won't hurt" or "I wonder what will happen" for someone like me to wind up the hospital.

[blackdiamants.livejournal.com]

<3

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Oh God, the comments on that! the shrieking! And I think this Lee G. is probably Lee Goldberg? Not sure, but damn, the resemblance in shrillness is striking.

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

Hi, I don't mean to spam your LJ, but since you're insterested in the discussion about orphan works legislation, and a lot of really spurious scare-tactics are circulating (in a rather sleazy attempt to kill the initiative), I thought you might be interested in this summary from a trustworthy, reliable, and professional source:

http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/tag/orphan-works/

The current bills are not perfect; they have flaws. But an orphan works addition to copyright law is something that should not scare any author or artist. It will help libraries, archives, museums, scholars, documentary filmmakers, and anyone who wants to be able to safely and legally quote from copyrighted material where the copyright holder is anonymous, untraceable, dead-with-no-known-heirs, or otherwise *truly* unfindable.

Apologies if this message is out of line! I love your blog.