U.S. Copyright Office – Anticircumvention Rulemaking:

1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university’s film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors.
2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
3. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network.
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.

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this is great news. Now if they’d just make a rule about the materials that are in the grey area of copyright law.

Eat Over Your Sink:
Wow. There’s a day for everything. And today, November 24, 2006, is Sinkie Day, sponsored by the folks at www.sinkie.com. They’re also known as the “International Association of People who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink,” established in 1991. Yep, SInkie Day is a day to eat standing over your sink. Not, perhaps, a cause for celebration — but a release for a little guilty pleasure in doing so? Nut the big news is: on sinkie day, the folks at the web site announce their 6 suspected closet sinkies of the year. Will you be one?

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wow, well I don’t usually eat over the sink, but sometimes I do. It really depends on the crumb factor… if there are lots of crumbs, i eat over the sink, else… i have to sweep up crumbs…

Buy Nothing Day – ADBUSTERS.ORG:
Every November, for 24 hours, we remember that no one was born to shop. If you’ve never taken part in Buy Nothing Day, or if you’ve taken part in the past but haven’t really committed to doing it again, consider this: 2006 will go down as the year in which mainstream dialogue about global warming finally reached its critical mass. What better way to bring the Year of Global Warming to a close than to point in the direction of real alternatives to the unbridled consumption that has created this quagmire?

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celebrate buy nothing day. (of course, i have to buy contact solution today, but eh)