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28 Creative Graphic Designer Business Cards - An inspiring collection! & Graphic Design Blog - An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers. FileSharingZ.com - File Sharing News Portal. Www.AlcatrazHistory.com - StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon. The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value.

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How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon - StumbleUpon. Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Buy the book: Amazon | B&N | More… Here’s what a few folks have said about it: “Brilliant and real and true.”

How To Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon - StumbleUpon

—Rosanne Cash“Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work.” —Lifehacker.com“Immersing yourself in Steal Like An Artist is as fine an investment in the life of your mind as you can hope to make.” Read an excerpt below… Tags: steal like an artist. A Copyright Quickie: Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely. « Dear They. Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights» Blog Archive » Canadian Copyright Reform Back With Vengeance. On September 29th, 2011 the recently re-elected Conservative Government reintroduced the Copyright Modernization Act, Bill C-11 (previously Bill C-32).

Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights» Blog Archive » Canadian Copyright Reform Back With Vengeance

Given that the Conservatives now hold the majority of seats in the House, the quick and easy passage of this ‘Made In America’ legislation is no more a matter of ‘will it pass’ but a matter of ‘just how quickly will it pass.’ Heritage Minister James Moore has indicated that once Bill C-11 reaches the committee stage, witnesses who appeared before the old C-32 committee will not be heard from again. This despite that fact that there is a new Industry Minister on this portfolio. This move coupled by Moore’s confirmation that the committee will be meeting for extended hours each week and the fact that appeasing the United States has emerged as a bigger Conservative priority than making good on their promise to scrap the wasteful long gun registry.

The Pirate Bay Offers Downloads of Physical Objects. If The Pirate Bay has its way, users in the future will be able to get any physical item they want — such as car parts, shoes or even their lunch — by simply clicking their computer's print button.

The Pirate Bay Offers Downloads of Physical Objects

The controversial Swedish file-sharing Web site this week began offering a new category of downloads called "physibles," or data files that deliver real, physical objects to anyone with a 3D printer. The site currently has a dozen physibles available for download, including a 3-dimensional model of a 1970 Chevelle Hot Rod, a whistle and a "tabletop wargaming robot model" (pictured above). "We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form," a blog post at The Pirate Bay states. "We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years. " The site said it was considering temporarily renaming itself "The Product Bay," but added "we had no graphical artist around to make a logo. Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity - StumbleUpon.

What is the "Invisible Web", a.k.a. the "Deep Web"?

Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity - StumbleUpon

The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories. The "invisible web" is what you cannot find using these types of tools. The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers.