Wes Phillips

Corey Doctorow over at Boing-Boing links to this amazing clip of "Tumse Hai Dil Ko" from the 1965 movie Jaanwar. It is, of course, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" filtered through a Bollywood sensibility, and it's great fun.

Interesting collection of images from Cornell's division of rare and manuscript collections.

According to researchers at the University of Illinois, if you drop food on hardwood or tile floors and pick it up within five seconds, it probably is safe to eat.That's because it takes at least that long for germs to devour dropped dry food. It takes wet food less time to become contaminated—and if you drop food onto carpet, all bets are off. "That's an entirely different story and we haven't done that study yet."

But it's a step in the right direction.

Living In Stereo posts Dave Marsh's 1983 must-read about Florence Thompson, the subject of Dorothea Lange's harrowing FSA photo portrait. It's a great read—and add LIS to my daily rounds of the 'Net.

Take this one seriously, kids! Here's more hot poop on the Section">http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat051606.html">Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 (SIRA), courtesy of IPac. Don't let this stand—the only way Congress will oppose this is if it hears that its constituents don't want it, otherwise they'll suspect we won't even notice. Make some noise!

The (insert adjective here) recording and entertainment lobbies have sneakily maneuvered to have language inserted in http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat051606.html">
Section 115 Reform Act (SIRA), which is being considered by the House Judiciary Committee, that will destroy fair use as we know it. The language is vague but it appears to require licenses from copyright holders for "every digital copy made in the transmission of digital media—including cached copies on servers or on your hard drive, and even temporary copies in RAM," according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).