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• An English Experience: B&B in Whitby [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Creative Commons

  A new essay has surfaced at TheScian.com. It has got pictures and you can click and hear me mumble and pretend to read it. Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, is home to Dracula's cave, gothic gulls, and a B&B establishment that charms its guests with a roaring toilet the size of a matchbox, and a suicidal room heater that is colder than

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• Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

  sites, such as through a Creative Commons License, can be a great promotional tool. However, if plagiarized copies spread out first, the promotional opportunity is destroyed. These are just some of the bigger, more important, reasons that fighting plagiarism is not purely an emotional exercise, but rather, a necessary step to protect and

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• Gabo and Shakespeare: Two Islands, one hypnotic ending [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:16 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1 Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this

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• Strange Horizons Scifi webzine now free, as in beer [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  Hop over and drink scifi till you hallucinate about strange horizons. via bb Read the comments on this post...

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• Great Erections [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

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• Interactive Cellphone Art [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  Art could be passive and contemplative, like gawking at a Dali painting and letting it drug you into a state of inexplicable weirdness. Art could also be active and participatory, like the thousands of nude cyclicts in Amsterdam. How about Art with a cellphone and the cellular infrastructure? How about that in the beloved and beguiling city

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• Josh Kirby Illustrations [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Creative Commons

  Delicious illustrations by Josh Kirby of Discworld fame. Some wallpapers at the Liverpool National Museum website. Read the comments on this post...

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• A Dream [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  An untitled street art by Banksy. Read the comments on this post...

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• Joi Ito: Sharing & Happiness

  Published: August 5, 2007, 6:30 am

  Tags: Creative Commons, Free Culture

  a lot of his talk discussing Creative Commons (click here and here for more about CC as an alternative form of copyright that encourages sharing).  Beyond the legal issues of intellectual property law, Joi's larger point is that people will be happier, more innovative (which is good economically in the long run) and more free if we focus

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• The Scifi Contest 2007 [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:13 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  You have been up early and are at your desk, you brows are tangled in deep concentration, you squeeze your eyes for a moment, and voila! A dream-breaking thought! You punch the computer keys quickly and catch the thought into your electronic potter's wheel, to sculpt into a work of art. Do continue. There's still a few more weeks to polish your

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• !! INDIA: EXITOSO SISTEMA PARA PRODUCIR ABONO !!

  Published: September 3, 2007, 8:04 pm

  Tags: Basura, India, Creative Commons, Ambiente, Crecimiento, Desechos, Empresa, Abono

  registrado bajo la licencia Creative Commons (comunidades creativas) de Internet, lo que lo convierte en un dise o libre que cualquiera puede utilizar o adaptar, que se usa sobre todo para crear fuentes abiertas de c digos para programas de computaci n. El objetivo de Poonam es difundir la idea. "No puedo guardarme esto s lo por las dudas

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• Verbier Music Festival [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:30 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  The performances are online. I am watching Anoushka Shankar and Joshua Bell's performance on Aug 2nd. Great show. [thanks Ramya] While am passing on musical links, let me plug one of my favorite podcasts from NPR which has introduced me to so much of the wonderful music that I have come to enjoy: All Songs Considered hosted by Bob. The last one

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• Today [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: September 5, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  is Teacher's day in India. Read the comments on this post...

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• Scienceblogs weekly recap [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: September 6, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  Signnup for the nifty newsletter and automatically enter the ScienceBlogs 500,000 Comment contest, the winner of which gets to visit a great science city (probably Cambridge, UK. Not far away from where I live. Woohoo! Come visit humble me while in UK.) Between, the winner of the 500k comment contest is not necessarily the writer of the 500

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• Who is Shakespeare [The Scientific Indian]

  Published: September 11, 2007, 9:14 am

  Tags: Creative Commons

  Was he William, the writer-actor entrepreneur? Was he Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford? The inconsequential but utterly fascinating question has reared its head up again. Read the comments on this post...

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