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Christopher M. Kelty published the book Two Bits — The cultural significance of Free Software. The title sounds promising and i've just downloaded it.
I don't know when I will find the time to read it though. I still have to get a bit spoiled at readingbooks on the screen.
It is released under Creative Commons licence [...]

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I've finally managed to finish reading Code v2.0, by Lawrence Lessig. It took me quite longer since this summer i didn't have the possibility (and maybe the mood) of reading as much and as good as i wanted.
Anyway, since i particularly liked the book and found it really enlighten; firstly, i will write down some [...]

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Yesterday i've finally received a package with afew books i was waiting since weeks.
Amongst them, Code v2.0 is the one i was waiting the most. I finished few days ago reading Free Culture, so i think i'll start reading the other Lessig's book right away. :) 

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This evening, after I came back home from work, I switched on my computer, started my rss aggregator and while it was updating the feeds, a sad news blinked in front of my eyes: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 (here the full article)
I have to say, i've never read anything from Kurt [...]

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It's been a little while since i finally had the chance to start reading Free Culture - The nature and future of creativity, by Lawrence Lessig.
It's not time to write a little post-review about it, since i didn't finish reading yet but i'm looking forward of finishing it. It contains so many insightfull views [...]

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This won't be the complete review such a book would require, but i finally finished reading it, so i'm gonna write something about it
The Blind Watchmaker is a book i feel to recommend reading. For those who have some interests in the evolutionism theories, for those who'd like to know a little bit more aboutdarwinism, [...]

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I was very pleased when i read on BoingBoing that the audiobook of such a masterpiece as On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, written by Charles Darwin and published in 1859, has been completed and made it available to anyone who'd like to listen to it.
Darwin's work is nowadays in the [...]

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The book has a really interesting subject: science, technology, their developments and how these are perceived and integrated into culture.
Having an attracting subject such this the book could not satisfy me, though. There are significant brilliant ideas which the author tries to show and explain but i've found the result rather unsatisfactory. Hejumps from an [...]

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