July 2011
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Richie Allen Chaser
I’m sorry, I can’t stand to look at the site and see Derek Jeter’s smug face up there. So here’s a photo of Richie Allen having a smoke in the dugout. And an accompanying piece from the excellent Paul Lukas’ UniWatch.
photo: Charles Bonnay/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property”
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Thomas Jefferson — sure knew how to use a word or two.
via The ‘intellectual property’ oxymoron
(ht @pkedrosky)
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“A writing camp is like a reality show, where top chefs who have never met are forced to cook together. At the end, Rihanna shows up like the celebrity judge and picks her favorites. Her new album has 11 songs on it. So figure that the writing camp cost about $18,000 per song.”
—More at How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR
