Monthly Archives: June 2012

Word of the Week: Recursion

June 28, 2012
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recursion: it recurs

Recursion, self-referential logic, and all things meta

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What Kinds of (Legal) People are There?

June 25, 2012
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What Kinds of (Legal) People are There?

Legal personhood has a specific legal definition and it doesn't mean we mistake corporations for people. Some real people don't get some rights, and the legal personhood of a corporation doth not a fully legal person make.

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Word of the Week: Nonobvious

June 19, 2012
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Patents are required to be non-obvious. In theory.

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New Global Content Commons? Thanks, Wikimedia

June 16, 2012
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Cleverly disguised as the back-end "explanations" to their new photo-uploading process, The Wikimedia Commons has just taken a ballsy stance on copyright and created what may become the first true global repository of open content.

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Word of The Week: KERNING

June 11, 2012
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Word of The Week: KERNING

Kerning and XKCD comic

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Copyright Visualization

June 7, 2012
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Morpheus pills

Matrix parody of copyright laws

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Introduction to Berkman

June 4, 2012
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Introduction to Berkman

Hey, been a bit of a slacker about posting lately. Post-finals malaise. Today marks the beginning of my position as an internship at the Berkman Center. I shall be resuming regular substantive posts. More specifically, from now on I shall be hanging around the metaLAB at Harvard. Or, to express it visually:

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