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the public domain 06/21/2004 07:06 PM
The beautiful thing about Cory's speech being in the public domain isn't merely that I could make an HTML version...

Ingenious use of the public domain

Ingenious use of the public domain 01/07/2004 02:49 PM

Customized Classics takes several classics of literature from the public domain, and weaves names of your choosing directly into the story to create custom one-off printings of your books. It's a clever (and commercial) use of freely available works.

When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?

When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain? 10/23/2002 11:18 PM
How can I determine the copyright status of old documents?

Public-Domain C Library

Public-Domain C Library 11/19/2003 02:44 AM
First checkins, project statement

Public Domain Day in Canada

Public Domain Day in Canada 01/02/2004 07:12 AM
Yesterday marked the turning of the year, and as a consequence, millions of works entered the public domain in Canada and other countries with copyright terms more limited than those in the US.

Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada...

Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to die in 1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include Polish poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing, Dutch children’s author Hugo Pilon, Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, metaphyisical author Baird Spalding, Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureat Knut Hamsun, playwright and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill (1953 was a bad year for Nobel laureates!), Irish poet and Yeats’ one-time lover Maud Gonne, Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (bad year for poets!), country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams, French author Hilaire Belloc, American historian J.G. Randall, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (bad year for Russians!), founder of Saudi Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Maria Montessori of school fame, and many more.

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public domain day -- in Canada

public domain day -- in Canada 01/07/2004 02:40 PM
Wallace McLean sent the following:

Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada. As of today, millions of pages of archival heritage, in hundreds of archival institutions, have become the common property of all Canadians. You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing, or treating the material in any other way. It's yours to enjoy and share with whomever, whenever, in whatever way you want. Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to die in 1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include Polish poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing, Dutch children's author Hugo Pilon, Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, metaphyisical author Baird Spalding, Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureat Knut Hamsun, playwright and Nobel laureate Eugene O'Neill (1953 was a bad year for Nobel laureates!), Irish poet and Yeats' one-time lover Maud Gonne, Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (bad year for poets!), country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams, French author Hilaire Belloc, American historian J.G. Randall, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (bad year for Russians!), founder of Saudi Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Maria Montessori of school fame, and many more. Happy Public Domain Day!

Here in America, we'll celebrate our next public domain day in, um, 15 years.

My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain

My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain 02/12/2004 06:13 PM
I have just given a talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Confernece called Eb ooks: Neither E, Nor Books, which is something of an anomaly for me in three ways:

1. I wrote out this talk, word for word, in advance of the presentation
2. I am releasing that written text as a free, public domain file, right now, moments before I get off the stage

So here's the text of that talk, dedicated to the Public Domain, for you to do with what you will.

This isn't to say that copyright is bad, but that there's such a thing as good copyright and bad copyright, and that sometimes, too much good copyright is a bad thing. It's like chilis in soup: a little goes a long way, and too much spoils the broth.

From the Luther Bible to the first phonorecords, from radio to the pulps, from cable to MP3, the world has shown that its first preference for new media is its "democratic-ness" -- the ease with which it can reproduced.

(And please, before we get any farther, forget all that business about how the Internet's copying model is more disruptive than the technologies that proceeded it. For Christ's sake, the Vaudeville performers who sued Marconi for inventing the radio had to go from a regime where they had *one hundred percent* control over who could get into the theater and hear them perform to a regime where they had *zero* percent control over who could build or acquire a radio and tune into a recording of them performing. For that matter, look at the difference between a monkish Bible and a Luther Bible -- next to that phase-change, Napster is peanuts)

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Pointers to Public Domain sites

Pointers to Public Domain sites 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]

Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain

Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain 02/05/2005 09:31 PM

Last night Francesca and I went to see the artist Barbara Kruger speak at the San Francisco Art Institute. Kruger is known for, among other things, stark photo-and-text collages that appropriate the language of consumer culture to comment on it.

After the talk, Francesca (our resident art expert) gave Kruger a Creative Commons t-shirt and explained what it is we do.

"Oh, sounds like Lawrence Lessig," Kruger said.

"He's our chairman," Francesca and I said in unison.

"Wow, if you have to have a hero, he's as good as anyone I can think of," she said. "Please tell him that I use his book to teach my grad school courses."

Having endured and prevailed in a copyright litigation (over the image above), Kruger can appreciate the benefits of free culture.

Union for the Public Domain website

Union for the Public Domain website 06/09/2004 08:29 PM
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How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!

How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired! 04/12/2005 04:23 PM
It appears that, once again, the entertainment industry's efforts to educa te everyone on their distorted view of intellectual property law is causing some problems. According to Copyfight, a radio host was recently fired for airing materials he had recorded off C-SPAN. C-SPAN, of course, makes no claim to the copyright on the audio they broadcast from Congress as it is, in fact, in the public domain. However, the radio station didn't seem to care, and assumed that it was a misuse of the material and promptly fired the radio host. And some wonder why there are people afraid of the ever-disappearing public domain.

'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain

'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain 07/18/2004 05:19 AM

Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year

Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year 07/18/2004 12:21 PM
On January 1, 2005, Elvis Presley's "That's All Right" -- a 50-year-old tune currently enjoying the #3 chart spot in Great Britain -- will enter the public domain.

Anyone will be able to release it without paying royalties to the owners of the master or the performer's heirs. BMG will start losing a significant piece of its catalog income in Europe. As "That's All Right" is being hailed by some as the beginning of rock 'n' roll, the implications are that every year after 2005, more recordings that defined the genre will fall into public domain.

Link (Thanks, electrincinca)

Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??

Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries?? 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

In response to yester day's criticism of Illinois Governor Blagojevich's plan to spend money on 12 books per child per year rather than on libraries, Ernest Miller comes up with a most interesting proposal.

Book Publishing in Every School and Library

"Why not split the difference?

What if Illinois spent at least part of the $26 million for the book give away program to install book publishing equipment in every library in Illinois? Then, just like the Internet Bookmobile, children would be able to walk into a library and walk out with a book they could keep. Frankly, I think every school and library should have book publishing equipment. Given enough scale it is probably cheaper to print out most public domain books and give them away then deal with the costs of checking them out and restocking. Heck, you could have an option: check the book out and be subject to possible late fees, or pay $1 or so and keep the book. Might work out pretty well."

Now there's a vision! I'm smelling a grant on the horizon (because I don't see the Governor compromising). Any SLS library want to be my guinea pig?!  :-)

BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain

BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain 11/13/2003 07:40 AM
BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the Public Domain
http://fusion.sims.b erkeley.edu/briefbank/

BriefBank is a free, community-supported resource that collects and redistributes briefs in the area of law, technology, and public policy. Briefs are generously donated by legal scholars and partner organizations. BriefBank is housed at the School of Information Managment and Systems and is administered by the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley.

Public domain art contest from Duke
University

Public domain art contest from Duke
University 08/20/2004 12:34 PM
Xeni Jardin: Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of Public Domain is running a video contest with some cool prizes, and a nod to Creative Commons. The contest invites artists "to create a 2-minute moving image that explains to the public some of the tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the intellectual property issues artists face, focusing particularly on either music or documentary film." Entry deadline is November 1, and some tasty, gadgety prizes are offered. Link (Thanks, Yo Vinny)

In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain

In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain 08/02/2004 10:12 PM
I.B.M. plans to announce that it is contributing more than half a million lines of its software code, valued at $85 million, to an open source software group.

President Bush public domain audio
project

President Bush public domain audio
project 06/18/2004 10:21 PM

Though the graphics on this project probably reveal the author's personal positions on the President, it is pretty cool that someone went to the trouble of creating an audio archive of every speech President George W Bush has made publicly. They're available for download as mp3, or you can get all 10 Gb of audio on three DVDs from the site.

It'd be cool if the Library of Congress site had this level of detail on all presidents, but this will do for now. They're even throwing a little music remix contest based on the speeches.

"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts."

"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts." 07/04/2004 03:35 PM

Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe

Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe 07/19/2004 04:43 AM
While the US locks up copyrighted works for longer than could possibly be reasonable thanks to our friends at the Walt Disney Company and the Sonny Bono "Keep Mickey Locked Up" Act, over in Europe they have dared to go with a horrifying 50 year copyright. Why is it horrifying? Well, it appears that fifty years ago popular rock and roll began, and that means plenty of those songs are about to hit the public domain. Of course, the music industry folks could never let that happen, which is why they're lobbying hard for a Sonny Bono copyright term extension act of their own, because the thought of Elvis Presley's or the Beatles songs entering the public domain scares the living daylights out of the industry. They've convinced Reuters to write up a very one-sided piece that never talks to anyone who might point out why there's a limit on the length of copyright, and how stuff in the public domain is important to our culture. Is anyone over in Europe complaining about how Shakespeare's works are in the public domain? However, Reuters digs up some random musician to say: "It's scary." It's scary? This is a musician who is on "a 37-date sold-out tour." You're on a sold out tour, making plenty of money, and you're complaining that you won't get your royalties from something you did fifty years ago? In most lines of business, you get paid for what you're doing today, not what you did fifty years ago.

Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online

Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Government documents supplied by Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind for his book, The Price of Loyalty, are now available online. The site makes use of the Creative Commons public domain mark.

These documents, drawn from a collection of 19,000 files, are called "The Bush Files" and Suskind is encouraging other administration officials to contribute to the database, "to encourage more productive, fact-based public dialogues," as stated on the website.

MacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain

MacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

The MacArthur Foundation issued two large grants for scholarly research into current intellectual property (IP) issues .

One, for $600,000, is to the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), in support of research into "examining intellectual property policies and their potential impact on scientific research and innovation".

"We have been looking for an appropriate balance between the interests of the public and its need for access to information, and the interests of those who produce and publish that scientific information... These grants will allow us to expand our approach so that we can address the impacts of both copyright and patenting on access to and use of scientific information."

A second grant, for $250,000, goes to the National Research Council , at the science-focused National Academies ( NAS ), to support "its efforts to promote open access to and the preservation of a public domain in scientific and technical data internationally." (The NAS has published a recent report on technology and education.)

The MacArthur Foundation has a history of, and program for supporting IP research. In July of 2002 it released four grants totalling $2.5 million, for research on the internet and intellectual property . In September of this year, the Foundation awarded one of its Fellows Grants , or "genius grants" to Cornell 's Paul Ginsparg, for his work on arXiv , an open-source scholarly archive for scientific research .

The Rockefeller Foundation launched a related initiative in November, aimed at developing new fair use policies to mitigate the digital divide .

(via BoingBoing and Philanthropy News Digest )

Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain

Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain 05/22/2004 02:38 AM
An important piece of copyright litigation is in the offing: Golan v Ashcroft challenges Congress's "restoration of copyright" to thousands of works that were in the public domain as of 1994. The Golan legal team is collecting your horror stories about being denied access to works that were snatched from the public domain; they're publishing the stories as they come in:

To win the lawsuit we need your help: we need examples of how people have been harmed by this removal of works from the public domain. You can help us if you have ever wanted to use:

* a foreign sound recording made before February 15, 1972; or
* a foreign work published in or after 1923 that was in the public domain in the U.S. (due to lack of copyright notice, renewal, or national eligilibility of the author), including:

* works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian, and other foreign composers (search for restored works)
* numerous classic British, French, German, and other foreign films (including several Hitchcock films, Faust, Metropolis, and The Red Balloon, Kurosawa's Ikiru, The Third Man, and Intermezzo)
* or any other foreign book, photograph, song, or work subject to a "restored" copyright
* although registration is optional, you can search the U.S. Copyright Office for restored works

Link (Thanks, Jason!)

"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada"

"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain

Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Market failures create the need for organizations like the Salvation Army. Joan Kroc used her family fortune in powerful ways that recognized these failures.

"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us,"

"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us," 12/06/2003 06:08 AM
Good article

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Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain

Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain 07/20/2004 11:30 AM
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Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction

Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction 07/05/2004 02:55 AM
Canadian Domain Name Services Inc. (caDNS.ca), one of Canada's leading .ca Domain Name Registrars, has lowered its price for .CA domain registrations to $19.99, one of the most competitive prices in Canada. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004]

GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more.

GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more. 04/23/2004 09:32 AM

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Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
registration and domain transfers.

Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
registration and domain transfers. 04/23/2004 09:32 AM

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Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service

Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service 06/30/2004 03:17 AM
Domain Lab launches budget priced version of their corporate domain package at www.domainlab.biz [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap

Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap 07/13/2004 03:08 AM
The Low Cost domain specialists have now revealed there latest website at www.domainspecialist.net . Bringing you fast slickly designed and easy to navigate domain buying and website hosting. The new site offers the user more choices when ordering there domain names, copyrighting or website hosting. DomainSpecialist.net is part of the IAAM Group of Companies situated at www.ItsAllAboutMarketing.com . domain Specialist is rivaling all UK Domain providers by offering a much higher class service, cheaper prices on the same products and above all else a total internet solution. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

Guangzhou 3G Acquired

Guangzhou 3G Acquired 03/30/2005 09:24 PM
3G Mar 30 2005 11:22PM GMT

CNET acquired MP3.com

CNET acquired MP3.com 11/14/2003 08:05 AM

blo.gs acquired by Yahoo!

blo.gs acquired by Yahoo! 06/17/2005 07:22 PM
Jim Winstead tells the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs. this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that...

mp3.com Acquired by CNet

mp3.com Acquired by CNet 11/14/2003 09:09 AM

Marketleap Acquired By DigitalImpact

Marketleap Acquired By DigitalImpact 07/12/2004 03:58 PM
"Digital Impact, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIGI), a leading provider of integrated digital marketing solutions for Global 2000 enterprises, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Marketleap, a San Francisco-based Internet marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing services"

LookSmart Has Acquired Grub Inc

LookSmart Has Acquired Grub Inc 03/15/2003 07:12 AM
A minor snippet in the LookSmart Annual Report: "...acquired substantially all of the assets of Grub, Inc., a developer of distributed computing software..."

GoToast Acquired by aQuantive Inc.

GoToast Acquired by aQuantive Inc. 12/15/2003 11:42 AM
GoToast - one the largest SEM services providers on the net...
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Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life 09/25/2004 09:11 AM

Second Life As The Virtual Campus

Second Life As The Virtual Campus 09/24/2004 09:47 AM
While some professors don't like students using the internet or chatting during class, it looks like a few are going in the opposite direction -- using the virtual game environment Second Life as a virtual classroom. The article discusses a professor who uses it in a "Games for the Web" class, which makes sense, obviously. However, another professor using it, teaches an urban planning class. Of course, Second Life creator Linden Labs is perfectly thrilled to give out free accounts to students in the belief that many will become subscribers at the end of the class.

Campus Life Comes to Second Life

Campus Life Comes to Second Life 09/24/2004 05:15 AM
Wired News Sep 24 2004 9:52AM GMT

Winner of Second Life contest to design
Cory's book

Winner of Second Life contest to design
Cory's book 06/22/2005 01:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: On July 24, I'll be appearing in the online world Second Life to do a book signing/launch for my new novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. The Second Lifers have been conducting a contest to see who can come up with the coolest in-game programmed book-object to decant the novel into, and they've picked a winner:

Falk Bergman was the first to bring me by to have a look at his prototype in development, a giant book positioned next to a seat. Sitting on it automatically fixes your camera position in place, to give you the best possible view of the book.

"The viewer in-world itself is very simple," Falk tells me modestly. "It is basically a shopping agent with two displays that hooks into Page Up and Down [on the keyboards] for changing the pages."

Li nk (Thanks, Ernest!)

Update: Dragonpage radio have recorded a podcast with me about the book and it went live today. Here's the MP3 link

LEGO Video Game Contest

LEGO Video Game Contest 09/26/2004 01:02 PM
The latest issue of LEGO Magazine is arriving in mailboxes and inside the issue are details on a new contest where you could win the ultimate LEGO Star Wars prize package. Prizes include LEGO sets, a multimedia PC, and a chance to have your original idea included in the upcoming LEGO Star Wars game, plus the game itself, which is due out in May 2005. LEGO Club members check your mailboxes!

Notes and Tips: Video Editing Contest

Notes and Tips: Video Editing Contest 04/20/2004 10:02 AM
Stockstock could be a fun video-editing festival.

John Ashcroft-themed smut video contest

John Ashcroft-themed smut video contest 06/28/2004 03:13 PM
Nerve is running a contest for John Ashcroft-themed amateur porn. Celebrity judges Moby, Ted Hope, and John Cameron Mitchell will pick from 15 finalists whose work is now online for your smut-tastic viewing pleasure -- titles include 1-800-4.D.O.J-S+M and The Passion of John Ashcroft. Too bad Nerve decided to post all the vids in WMV only. Some critics argue the format is nearly as restrictive as the policies of the man at whom this contest pokes fun. Link to FB item.

Internet Video Magazine announces iMovie
contest winners

Internet Video Magazine announces iMovie
contest winners 12/11/2003 07:19 AM
Internet Video Magazine today announced the winners of their recent iMovie contest, where aspiring videographers, or people that just wanted to have fun creating their own "home movies" could present submissions...

24-Hour Atari 2600 Video Game Design
Contest

24-Hour Atari 2600 Video Game Design
Contest 04/08/2005 10:25 PM
Slashdot Apr 9 2005 1:39AM GMT

New Entertainment Company Joins Video
Publishing Revolution with Contest for
Free Online TV Shows

New Entertainment Company Joins Video
Publishing Revolution with Contest for
Free Online TV Shows 04/14/2005 03:55 AM
Tired of watching the same old stuff on broadcast and cable television? Start your own online TV series, with free production, at MyTVonline, a new entertainment company that believes there's better television to be had in the grass roots of the web, than in the 500 channels of satellite TV. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

E3 2004 Half-Life 2 Video

E3 2004 Half-Life 2 Video 05/12/2004 05:29 PM

The Life Of A Professional Video Gamer

The Life Of A Professional Video Gamer 02/10/2004 01:27 PM
We've been following the trend of video games to be treated more and more like sporting events, and now News.com is runni ng an interview with a professional video gamer, who is making pretty good money at it. The money comes both from winning tournaments and from sponsorships. However, he's now trying to take it a step further, and is going to start selling his own computers that are designed to the specs he likes. The interview reads like a typical confident (ok, cocky) athlete, talking about how great he is. He compares himself to Michael Jordan a few times and talks about how great he is at video games - but then talks about how much more sportsmanlike he is than other players. One interesting thing, is that he points out that part of his training involves real exercise: running and aerobics to try to keep his reflexes sharp. It's still interesting to watch video gaming morph into a spectator sport. As it does, the prizes are getting bigger, and it's getting a lot more attention. Of course, I wonder how many parents are happy about their kids growing up to be professional Quake players instead of professional baseball players.

Video mashup of Half Life 2 + Oakenfold

Video mashup of Half Life 2 + Oakenfold 09/24/2004 09:28 AM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Mike says, "I just posted a new screenshot / electronica mash-up video: "30 Scenes in 30 Seconds." Link to blog post (video is DivX).

U.S. Hostage in Iraq Appeals for Life on
Video-TV (Reuters)

U.S. Hostage in Iraq Appeals for Life on
Video-TV (Reuters) 04/13/2005 11:25 AM
Reuters - An American contractor taken hostage in Iraq has urged the U.S. government to negotiate with his captors to save his life, according to a video aired by Al Jazeera television on Wednesday.

Half-Life 2 2004 High Res Bink Video

Half-Life 2 2004 High Res Bink Video 08/15/2004 07:36 AM

Free Santa Video Emails Available Which
Teach Life Lessons

Free Santa Video Emails Available Which
Teach Life Lessons 12/22/2004 01:05 AM
Santa Claus has recorded a series of short videos where he shares his wisdom. Each video, which is about 10 seconds, shows Santa explaining how people can make the holiday season better for themselves and others. For example, he informs people that he wears the seatbelt on his sleigh, so therefore people should use their seatbelts as well. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

Nautica Nails SpiceLive CJ Contest
Nautica Thorn has nailed herself an
Internet plum: the adult video actress

Nautica Nails SpiceLive CJ Contest
Nautica Thorn has nailed herself an
Internet plum: the adult video actress 06/03/2004 12:37 AM
AVN Online Jun 3 2004 4:56AM GMT

tech.life@play | Movie-based video games
attracted gamers in 2003

tech.life@play | Movie-based video games
attracted gamers in 2003 01/01/2004 04:32 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 1 2004 3:35AM ET

Duke Gives IPods to Freshmen

Duke Gives IPods to Freshmen 07/20/2004 05:43 PM
Wired News Jul 20 2004 10:26PM GMT

Five Town CSD Says Yes To Laptops For
Freshmen

Five Town CSD Says Yes To Laptops For
Freshmen 07/29/2004 03:12 AM
The Five Town CSD board agreed to participate in a state-promoted program to provide laptops to the high school's 185 incoming freshmen. By Lynda Clancy, VillageSoup.com (via MyAppleMenu)

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules

The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004 Amatuer Contest Rules

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"The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules"

"The Everyman Photo Contest - 2004
Amatuer Contest Rules" 08/02/2004 03:12 PM

Duke to Provide Freshmen With IPods

Duke to Provide Freshmen With IPods 07/20/2004 06:04 PM

Duke Welcomes Freshmen With New IPods

Duke Welcomes Freshmen With New IPods 08/28/2004 01:10 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Aug 28 2004 5:05PM GMT

Duke to Provide Freshmen With IPods (AP)

Duke to Provide Freshmen With IPods (AP) 07/20/2004 04:37 PM
AP - Freshmen showing up at Duke University this year will get their own Apple iPod, part of an experiment by the school to see if the popular portable music player can double as a learning tool.

Duke freshmen receive iPods

Duke freshmen receive iPods 08/20/2004 04:48 PM
"This is so cool," Duke University freshmen were quoted as saying as they received their iPods Thursday...

Duke University freshmen to get iPods

Duke University freshmen to get iPods 07/19/2004 11:38 AM
As part of a pilot program, Duke University has teamed up with Apple to give iPods to all 1,800 incoming freshmen this fall...

Duke Welcomes Freshmen With New IPods
(AP)

Duke Welcomes Freshmen With New IPods
(AP) 08/28/2004 11:30 AM
AP - Newly arrived Duke University freshmen got something considerably snazzier than the usual Blue Devils T-shirts and ball caps: Their goodie bags included a free iPod digital music player engraved with the school's crest and the words "Class of 2008."

Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie: The Simple
Life: FOX TV Show OfficialSite: Video,
Pictures, Pics, Photos

Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie: The Simple
Life: FOX TV Show OfficialSite: Video,
Pictures, Pics, Photos 12/03/2003 04:04 AM
Fox Broadcasting Company: Simple Life

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Freshmen Receive Long-Awaited iPods

Freshmen Receive Long-Awaited iPods 08/20/2004 12:58 PM
"Cool" was the word of the night as eager members of the Class of 2008 gathered en masse on the East Campus Quadrangle Thursday to receive their long-awaited and highly-publicized welcome gifts: 20-gigabyte Apple iPods. By Seyward Darby, Duke Chronicle (via MyAppleMenu)

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