What they’ve made permanently free is distribution of content that people have already licensed to encode, and will need a license to decode. This is similar to Nikon announcing that they will not charge you if you put your pictures up on Flickr, or HP promising that they will never charge you additionally if you photocopy something that you printed on a LaserJet.
– Shaver on MPEG-LA announcement of moratorium on charging fees for the transmission of H.264 content.
Barry Schwartz on wisdom via Chris Blizzard
John Cleese explains everything you need to know about creativity. via 37signals
Kraftwerk performs We Are The Robots and Radioactivity on French TV (1978)
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Learning the skill of Barefoot Running
Lady Gaga’s Poker Face read by Christopher Walken via Kottke
Breathtaking photo of the sun, eclipsed by the moon seen from Easter Island, 3,700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean, on July 11, 2010. Photograph by Martin Bernetti, found via The Big Picture.
