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"Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture talk at the 2002 Open Source Conference. The master of the simple slides shows us how it’s done. And since, as he says, this is his 100th time for this talk, he has this bad boy down solid. Even though this talk is from 2002, his slide presentation style is still as fresh today as Axe Body Spray."[1] http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html [1] http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/08/21/top-10-best-presentations-ever/

Just because its so cool, Lessig's OSCON speech on copyright: http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ Favorite quote (paraphrased) "Disney didn't want others to do to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm."

I dunno, I gave up on Wirecutter for anything I actually cared about almost 10 years ago - I found that for anything that I had actually done even basic research on, the Wirecutter was always wrong (and not just like sort of wrong, but like completely missing the point/out to lunch wrong): https://randomfoo.net/2014/03/22/the-wirecutter-is-always-wrong

Same. Additionally the last time I saw Verified by Visa the domain it used was registered to some rando's apartment in NYC. Super sketchy. Edit: this is what I'm talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962944 and https://randomfoo.net/2011/06/22/mastercard-securecode-and-securesuite… Looks like I misremembered the details. Still, super sketchy.

I definitely support the author's message: have a point, use pictures, prepare. My style is derived from Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (Flash, but legendary: https://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html) and Edward Tufte (with whom I was fortunate enough to work for one summer).

Lawrence Lessig's 'free culture' from OSCON 2002:- https://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ Anything at all by Richard Feynman:- https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22richard+feynman%22&tbm=vid

Nice resurrection of Forum2000! Props. http://randomfoo.net/junk/200402/xalton.forum2000.org/matrix/forum_hof… http://slashdot.org/story/00/08/13/0213225/end-of-an-era-forum-2000-cl…

Most of the slides are blank, single sentences, or changes in highlighting. I'm sure they were flipping through them pretty quickly and just using slides to give certain phrases extra punch. See also: Lawrence Lessig's presentation on Free Culture (http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html) That's probably 1000 slides, but they are used expertly to deliver a clear, concise message.

Here's an interesting proposed architecture that involves ditching MySQL: http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4182

I see you are in Britain, where copyright originally developed. As I recall, the history was a couple of publishers trying to bloody each other (1). It had nothing to do with whether a merchant wanted to transcribe copies of Hamlet to share with friends practising for the local theatre production 50 years after Shakespeare's death. The principle profits had already been wrung out. In the US, the copyright exists To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts (2). It essentially is allowed to exist with the hopes that on average it will further the common good, but it is limited because even at the time, there was a good deal of skepticism about that monopoly power. With regards to music and the visual and performing artists, I think many might actually argue that they are expressly uninterested in meeting the definition of "useful": "Art is art and everything is everything else." (3). But even if we offend them, it must surely be useful to lower the cost music in the air. It must surely be in the public good to reduce the cost of happiness. I would be interested in hearing why you think right is what you think it is, your understanding of the history of where copyright came from. (1) http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html (2) US Constitution, Article 1, section 8, clause 8 (3) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ad_Reinhardt

You have some catching up to do... :) They are not at all concerned about normal form or joins - it's just not that kind of a database. Here are some good blog posts that elaborate on the current non-RDBMS fad: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relational-datab… http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-v… http://randomfoo.net/2009/04/20/some-notes-on-distributed-key-stores http://bcbio.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/evaluating-key-value-and-documen… http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/07/25/choosing-a-non-relational-database…