While thinking about final exam topics for intellectual property, I came across this 2007 video from Pittsburgh’s WTAE-TV. It’s too interesting not to share. Mr. Yuk appears on stickers. Parents put his green scowling face (think the ultimate anti-smiley face) onto containers of poisonous household substances. The idea: evil face, poison, don’t drink! Mr. Yuk […]
This video might make an interesting final examination question. H/T to IO9.com. Vid from CollegeHumor.com.
The great science writer James Gleick writes in today’s NYT about the future of books: As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by […]
Here’s an excerpt from today’s press release: The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections […]
