Earlier this year ChefQuix told me about a technique used By Jerry Seinfeld to motivate himself to work on his comedy act everyday. With New Year’s Resolutions forming in our heads I thought you might enjoy this habit forming life hack:
- Obtain a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall.
- Get a big red magic marker.
- Choose a daily task you wish to make a habit.
- For each day that you accomplish your task put a big red X over that day on the wall calendar.
“After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”
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According to the 2007 Google Zeitgeist, this is what “we” want to learn:
- how to kiss
- how to draw
- how to knit
- how to hack
- how to dance
- how to crochet
- how to meditate
- how to flirt
- how to levitate
- how to skateboard
If you can master all ten you become the 2007 Überhuman.
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An update to my previous post on the impending Canadian DMCA:
“The government last week filed a notice indicating the bill would be introduced this week, leading industry experts to expect it to happen on Tuesday. But a spokesperson for Industry Minister Jim Prentice, who was to introduce the bill, said it would not happen on Tuesday and could not say if it would happen this week.” - Copyright reform bill critics eye victory @ CBC
Sources say the minister had no idea that this would be such a big deal for Canadians.
It’s easy to feel that as an individual voter we wield little political power; however, this minor victory shows that we still have power in numbers. The Facebook Fair Copyright group started by Michael Geist, the Canada research chair of internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa, will likely reach 13 thousand members today.
I would still urge you to write, fax or call Mr. Prentice if you’re concerned about fair copyright reform in Canada.
See: Example Letters
Jim Prentice Constituency Office
Suite 105
1318 Centre St NE
Calgary, Alberta T2E 2R7
403 216-7777
Fax 403 230-4368
[email protected]
If you feel passionate about copyright reform there is much more you can do.
If you’re interested, here are Jack Layton’s views on copyright reform.
“The Canadian government is about to bring down Canada’s version of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The proposed copyright law is even worse than the ten-year-old American legislation that resulted in lawsuits against 20,000+ Americans without stopping infringement or paying artists.”
- Fight the Canadian DMCA on Saturday December 8th, 2007
Key Terminology: DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Fair Dealings, WIPO Treaty
“If this law passes, it will mean that as soon as a device has any anti-copying stuff in it (say, a Vista PC, a set-top cable box, a console, an iPod, a Kindle, etc), it will be illegal for Canadians to modify it, improve it, or make products that interact with it unless they have permission from the (almost always US-based) manufacturer. This puts the whole Canadian tech industry at the mercy of the US industry, unable to innovate or start new businesses that interact with the existing pool of devices and media without getting a license from the States.
If this law passes, it will render all of the made-in-Canada exceptions to copyright for education, archiving, free speech and personal use will be irrelevant: if a technology has a lock that prohibits a use, your right to make that use falls by the wayside. Nevermind that you’ve got the right to record a show to watch later — or to record a politician’s speech so you can hold him to account later — the policeman in the device can take that right away with no appeal.
If this law passes, it will make Canada into a backwards nation, lagging behind the UK, Israel and other countries that are passing new copyright laws that dismantle the idea of maximum copyright forever and in all things.”
- Canada’s coming DMCA will be the worst copyright yet
Let’s stop our government from choosing:
“locks over learning, property over privacy, enforcement over education, (law)suits over security, lobbyists over librarians, and U.S. policy over a Canadian-made solution.”
- Fair Copyright for Canada [facebook]
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