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When #Monsanto's Patents Expire - http://bit.ly/n4qfst NB: "the patents’ expiration will likely further expand the use of #GM organisms"

A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate #Shakespeare - http://bit.ly/qwEHkP #opensource virtual monkeys in the cloud, that is...

Heisenberg, “Harmless Torture,” and #Cyberbullying - http://bit.ly/q6gafW thoughtful post about the effects of Internet #scaling

Delhi HC issues yet another John Doe order to protect Speedy Singhs - http://bit.ly/qSY062 dangerously routine #india #copyright

Mosfilm Youtube channel - http://bit.ly/q4GdRe free access to 100s of fab films, including #tarkovsky #cinema #opencontent #russia

Met #Police rejects FOI request about payments to Carter Ruck - http://bit.ly/qVDUys outrageous obstructionism #foi

Logging out of #Facebook is not enough - http://bit.ly/qenn4C this looks very worrying #privacy

Michele Bachmann Envisions a World Without Food Industry Safety Standards - http://bit.ly/pQTh4p US wants to out-do #china...

Kauder verspricht 2-Strikes-Warnmodell - http://bit.ly/qNYVcg looks bad: #german politician proposing two strikes warning #copyright

re #Facebook cookies (http://bit.ly/qenn4C): there's a reply from Facebook engineer as first comment - worth reading (v @shaver)

Chinese reporter detained for article on official's sex slavery - http://bit.ly/ndHiWY accused of “revealing state secrets” (v @Asher_Wolf)

Basque government grants financial support to free software companies association - http://bit.ly/nu79Di shrewd move #spain

#China says "no" to the the commercialization of GE rice - http://bit.ly/nhniX2 looks potentially rather big... #gm

Postminimalism Playlist, After Kyle Gann's Discography - http://bit.ly/oJ56yr nice, but where's the Michael Nyman? #spotify

London Calling — #OpenAccess PR Wends Its Way From London Into a Major US Newspaper - http://bit.ly/qymXXH failing to grasp #abundance

Xinjiang’s Most Popular Song [Video]: Oynasun - http://bit.ly/qkGXJV catchy; your life will be incomplete until you've heard it... #uyghur

EU-Kommissarin "schockiert" von US-Klimapolitik - http://bit.ly/ofYkmC go on, tell us what you really think... #climatechange

RT @jackschofield"We’re trying to remove the barrier between ‘I want that’ and ‘I have it’.” -- Sam Hall, Amazon #quote >>yuk #consumerism

Open Access to Scholarly Publications at Princeton - http://bit.ly/oJAd7Q great news #openaccess

A Writers' Bill of Rights for the Digital Age - http://bit.ly/oeDqf9 clueless & one-sided: takes no account of the public's rights.. #canada (v +Marcel Gagne)

MT @Kim26stephens @ushahidi Amazing article. Mentions #opendata,@ushahidi: Future of #cities, info and inclusion. bit.ly/icPzHb

#Mobile Apps in #Africa (2011 Report) - http://bit.ly/qDerej interesting summary

Learning from The #Apache Way - http://bit.ly/pvXuEO why #apache is #opensource's biggest & longest-running success story

Is #OpenData “what the doctor ordered”? - http://bit.ly/oPVvgH interesting report on Demos panel at Labour conference #health

USMC files #DMCA against content creators in Second Life - http://exm.nr/q3ntSG more intellectual monopoly insanity #sl #virtualworlds

The Procedural Swamp - http://bit.ly/pVft0J great post: "I am baffled by the Authors Guild suit against #HathiTrust" #copyright

#Spotify responds to criticism of forced #Facebook logins with new statement - http://bit.ly/oe45Mx forced & unconvincing (v @mathewi)