Fri 25 Mar 2011, 1:01 am
A monk asked Joshu, a Chinese Zen master: “Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?” Joshu answered: “Mu.” [Mu is the negative symbol in Chinese, meaning "No-thing" or "Nay."] This is one of the most famous of Zen koans, or enigmatic stories meant to help one towards enlightenment. This one comes from the Mumonkan, or Gateless [...]
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Tue 22 Mar 2011, 11:13 am
I feel like even when people are trying to justify the unauthorized copying of a work, they are talking in terms of licenses. And I think that’s bad.
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Wed 9 Mar 2011, 8:50 am
Iris and I came up with a plan we like for ebooks in libraries that puts the emphasis on library ownership and control.
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Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:49 pm
Agrippa (a book of the dead) was published in 1992. Not a conventional book, Agrippa was more of a conceptual art piece. At the core of Agrippa is a long poem by science fiction author, William Gibson. The poem appeared only as a computer program on a floppy disk. When run, the program would display [...]
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