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finalcut on Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I don't know their future plans but currently I believe Googles e-books are published in an open format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) and also in PDF - I don't really think there is anything in their policies that prevent you from sharing/redistributing the digital copy"
- Bill Rawlinson
finalcut on Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"actually if the book is out of print the author isn't making any money at all from the traditional publishing process are they? I'm not talking about ownership rights at the moment, just revenue. Addressing ownership specifically does the agreement with the authors guild give Google "Ownership rights" to the works or does it just give them digital publishing rights? I would think, legally, that there is a difference in those two terms."
- Bill Rawlinson
finalcut on Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"mmm, maybe because they do give away public domain books at http://books.google.com"
- Bill Rawlinson
Raindrops Create Useful, Compelling Messaging Experiences - http://www.webappers.com/2009...
John Hughes on Erlang and Haskell - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node...
State of the art C compiler optimization tricks - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node...
Links o’ The Day 2009-11-05 - http://rawlinson.us/blog...
Links o’ The Day 2009-11-05 - http://rawlinson.us/blog...
Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Googles javascript tools
- Bill Rawlinson
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
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That was a funny book. I have a couple of other Christopher Moore books lined up as well.
- Eivind
I have some kind of Christmas tragedy by him on its way to me as well.
- Bill Rawlinson
It's OK Not to Write Unit Tests - http://blogs.msdn.com/cashto...
Updated Blog Template - http://cf-bill.blogspot.com/2009...
CF: QueryIntersect UDF - http://cf-bill.blogspot.com/2009...
Necktie: dress to impress - http://blog.labnotes.org/2009...
Inevitability of geoengineering - http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2009...
Google Dashboard - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
How to Create Mega Drop Down Menus with jQuery - http://www.webappers.com/2009...
finalcut on Maine Voters just repealed the law allowing gays to marry. WTF, Maine!? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"This is clearly a response to the de-sanctification of marriage that was taking place throughout the state as straight-marriages started falling apart in record numbers because gay people were suddenly, legally, off the market. All of the kids were scarred by knowing that their parents promise to one anther was weakened by the totally unrelated promise of same sex couples across the state. It was a real tragedy and thank GOD the problem has been fixed."
- Bill Rawlinson
finalcut on "G G R E I N", 6 letters that can be formed into a hurtful word. Tim Minchin is my hero. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"sing it my Ginger bother!"
- Bill Rawlinson
magicians are smarter than me http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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there are six parts to this - pretty much all are worth watching. The pace picks up a bit after the first.
- Bill Rawlinson
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