"If the public wants public culture, the public must be prepared to invest in public culture," said James Love,

Jamie Love, KEI

[Courtesy of sandb]: The post has been given a substantial plastic surgery. There is nothing as weird as Vlad III the Impaler going on.

Apart from having become more civilized, why don't we hang pirates anymore? Well. It's cruel, of course. There are many good reasons for why not to hang people, and at that, many good reasons for not having a death penalty at all.

Being an avid owner of no gaming consoles what so ever I noticed this morning that the prices of gaming consoles are expected to drop this summer. I doubt it will make me buy one, but what else is, regardless of the prices of gaming consoles the companies making them aren't exactly encouraging any larger console purchasing binges either.

Update: Prof. Keechang Kim has now provided two blogposts in English on the matter: On Zombie MPs and suggestion in parl and the strangeness of the DDoS attacks:

Sometimes I truly feel I live a grand life.

This is just really a short notice from the Pirate Parties International conference in Germany. We've technically been able to follow it through a web stream. I like the IRC-chat better even though it's slightly awkward that it was places on freenode rather than piratenpartij.

I like science fiction. One of my favourite science fiction writers is Dan Simmons. I will at some point probably explain more about the Spanish science fiction tradition.

But Japan has a different story telling tradition for almost every kind of fiction. Whether it is meant for young people, old people, women or men, there is a distinct Japanese-ness about it that you really can't avoid. Not only in comics, also in writing (although the writing is given much less attention -- sadly!!).

I met a nice man from Luxembourg once. A the Free Culture Research Conference. He worked at the Luxembourg National Library. He lives in legal limbo.