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Return to Pleasure Island — Cory Doctorow

By 5t4n5

Return to Pleasure Island -- Cory DoctorowAvailable in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

This story is a bit hit and miss for me.   A lot more miss than hit.   A bit of background and context might have made things a lot better.

After i finished reading it, i discovered that, apparently, it’s a Pinocchio spin off.   Which is a bit late to find out.   And maybe that’s the background and context that is utterly absent from this story.   If a writer is going to use another book as background and context to a story then it might be a really, really good idea to at least mention in a fore-word to the story.

I’ve never read Pinocchio, so maybe i’ll go and read it sometime and then give this

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Craphound — Cory Doctorow

By 5t4n5

Craphound -- Cory DoctorowAvailable in the collection, A Place So Foreign and Eight More.

Cory’s first story from way back in 1998.   Definitely a story for those of us who love thrift shops, junk shops, auctions, yard sales, charity shops, etc..   The extees remind me of the groks who come to Devon on holiday and deplete all our wonderful charity shops, only difference between extees and groks is that extees actually bring something decent to the table whereas groks only bring their rubbish, noise and pollution.   Groks don’t follow the craphound code.

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Context — Cory Doctorow

By 5t4n5

Context -- Cory DoctorowDownload for free/donation over at Craphound.

Jack and the Interstalk: Why the Computer Is Not a Scary Monster
Teen Sex
Nature’s Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences
Beyond Censorware: Teaching Web Literacy
Writing in the Age of Distraction
Extreme Geek
How to Stop Your Inbox Exploding
What I Do
When I’m Dead, How Will My Loved Ones Break My Password?
Radical Presentism
A Cosmopolitan Literature for the Cosmopolitan Web
When Love Is Harder to Show Than Hate
Think Like a Dandelion
Digital Licensing: Do It Yourself
New York, Meet Silicon Valley
With a Little Help: The Price Is Right
You Shouldn’t Have to Sell Your Soul Just to Download Some Music
Net Neutrality for Writers: It’s All About the Leverage
Proprietary Interest
“Intellectual Property” Is a Silly Euphemism
Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good
Chris Anderson’s Free Adds Much to The Long Tail, but Falls Short
Why Economics Condemns 3D to Be No More Than a Blockbuster Gimmick
Not Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn’t, Either)
Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?
Curated Computing Is No Substitute for the Personal and Handmade
Doctorow’s First Law
Reports of Blogging’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Streaming Will Never Stop Downloading
Search Is Too Important to Leave to One Company–Even Google
Copyright Enforcers Should Learn Lessons from the War on Spam
Warning to All Copyright Enforcers: Three Strikes and You’re Out
For Whom the Net Tolls
How Do You Know If Copyright Is Working?
News Corp Kremlinology: What Do the Times Paywall Numbers Mean?
Persistence Pays Parasites
Like Teenagers, Computers Are Built to Hook Up
Promoting Statistical Literacy: A Modest Proposal
Personal Data Is as Hot as Nuclear Waste
Memento Mori
Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
Untouched by Human Hands
Close Enough for Rock ‘n’ Roll

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You Can’t Own Knowledge — Cory Doctorow

By 5t4n5

You Can't Own Knowledge -- Cory DoctorowYou can read for free at FREESOULS.

If the block caps bothers you, you can copy and paste the text into a word program, select all, set font, set size font, and it’ll come out normal for you to read.   I have no idea why someone would block cap their whole website apart from a few letters and make it so impossible to read.   I suppose it’s someone without any sense thinking they’re being really arty and avant-garde or something — well you ain’t, you’re just being a twat.

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