All this useless beauty

To regard beauty as a stylistic after-thought is a flawed strategy. The phenomenon of human-digital technology interaction raises

the potential for captivation, enchantment and fascination

or frustration, distrust and doubt.

…the role of beauty in facilitating the engagement with digital complexity…

From:

All this useless beauty

Wallace, J. and Press, M. (2004) All this useless beauty. The Design Journal, Volume 7 Issue 2

http://homepage.mac.com/wallacejayne/abstract%20useless%20beauty.html

pdf download link:

http://homepage.mac.com/wallacejayne/abstract%20useless%20beauty_files/Wallace_Press_Useless_Beauty.pdf

Understanding Free Content

Nina Paley has a great post at QuestionCopyright.org that ends,

“That’s our vision of Free. It’s not communism. It’s not capitalism as we know it. It’s definitely not monopolies. It is Free Culture, and Free Enterprise.” 

Hoping soon to tie all this together with “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde….

disorganised crime

It’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.

FROM–BBC NEWS

Court jails Pirate Bay founders

 

A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case….