Sundowner

I much prefer lightweight fast browsers and hence I persevere with Chrome where possible.

The most obvious feature missing by default is being able to email the page link, so for some time I've had to add "Email this page by Google" across various computers I use.

This weekend I was surprised to find that this extension wasn't coming up in the Extension search within Chrome Tools. The top result was one pushing Gmail to be the default email client - "Send from Gmail (by Google)".  I find that too blatant and a little evil, Not Cool!

I watched a re-run of the 2001 film AntiTrust where the character Milo says "Human knowledge belongs to the world".

The very next day I read in Griffiths "Not for nothing is wild knowledge called "common knowledge." Common knowledge is free, open, unenclosed and "free" financially: it must not be bought or sold for profit. But now in the Amazon an act of enclosure is taking place - people's common knowledge is exploited for commercial gain, often privatized with the patent laws, which are the PRIVATE: KEEP OUT signs in the open fields of knowledge." (19)

Then today I saw BBC's Click Programme. It was following up earlier reporting with some audience feedback concerning file-hosting site Mega, with the suggestion that creators be rewarded once on production of their material but that subsequently they not receive any further compensation or royalty.

I see a line connecting these dots (above) but I know there isn't a simple answer to the problems of balancing protection of intellectual property with openness for the good of all.

This passage really struck me (with my emphasis) "The Peruvian Amazon was called a Tower of Babel by early Spanish missionaries. Intended as an insult, it was actually a compliment, testimony to the luminous and tumultuous diversity of jungle languages, not just one tree of knowledge but millions, a forest of knowing. But the Church, the state, and the education system together have deforested the human mind, forcing people to speak Spanish and aiding logging companies and others in a corporate land theft. If you take people out of their land, you take them out of their meaning, out of their language’s roots. When wild lands are lost, so is metaphor, allusion and the poetry that arises in the interplay of mind and nature. To lose your land is to lose your language, and to lose your language is to lose your mind…" (Griffiths 30)

I had no luck getting TrackIR v4 to work on Minecraft 1.4.7 today.