The TechQuarium site has instructions on how to turn your old Mac into an Aquarium. One of these days I will build one of these. The TreeHugger site has some instructions on how to purify water using a UV tube. This will not remove chemical decontaminants, but will kill off all bacterial and viral contaminants in the water.
Following the Kazaa case, Groklaw has an article on what the court decision was. But the owner of Groklaw made a few comments on Australian law…
“I learned quite a lot from the article. I confess that I was stunned to learn of a case in Australia where a library was held guilty of infringement by authorization because it had placed a copying machine next to a stack of library books. Here’s a snip from the beginning of the ruling:
In the belief that some of the copying of copyright material which is done within university libraries, by the use of photocopying machines, amounts to an infringement of the copyright, it was decided to commence a test case against a university, and for this purpose it was arranged that one Paul Brennan, a graduate of the University of New South Wales, should make an infringing copy of a literary work by the use of a photocopying machine in the library of the University of New South Wales.
Does common sense no longer rule? What is this excessive fear of copying? … And you thought it was getting silly in the US. When authors decide to entrap librarians in order to criminalize them, something is really and truly going haywire. “
There is only one problem with the comment ‘Does Common Sense No longer Rule?’. This decision was in the high court 30 years ago. This is the court case that made libraries put up signs describing the copyright act next to the machines.
Project Guttenburg now have AudioBooks… Not many human read ones yet, but I guess soon there will be a whole lot more…