brainwagon

Where your host plugs the worthy record label Magnatune and their gracious use of Creative Commons licensing, plays a bit of American Baroque’s rendition of Vivaldi’s Concerto No.1 in D Major RV, better known as the Spring Concerto among us people who don’t know much about music, and lauds the 6th Court of appeals decision in the Lexmark case. You can read the court’s opinion here as a PDF file, provided by the EFF.

Bonus links:

• Gordon Smith recommended that I check out Crux Linux. I’ll have to give it a shot sometime soon.
• Russell Holliman’s Treocast — a podcast recorded entirely on a Treo cellphone.

Errata: I erroneously called Doug Kaye David Kaye. Sorry Doug! I don’t know what blip caused my brain to make this mistake.

On the way home I stopped to pick up a few things, and decided to catch up on my Podcasts while pushing the cart around. I was initially not that interested in I.T. Conversations which had the vague title Emerging Worldviews by Thomas Barnett, but wow! It’s an amazing tour-de-force, dynamically presented and covering the economic, political and military development of the world, and why we are encountering difficult times. I hate it when politicians speak to us as if we are stupider than we really are: by contrast, Barnett speaks to us as if he believes we are smarter than we probably are. Refreshing. I’ll be adding his weblog to my reading list and will probably order his book The Pentagon’s New Map.

Great stuff!

Doug Kaye reports that Magnatune proprietor John Buckman considers podcasts to be noncommercial uses under the Creative Commons, and as such you can use their catalog freely within podcasts. I’ll be sending him and his artists some of my money very shortly.