links for 2008-01-18

“Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.”

An interesting take on Cloverfield (JJ Abrams’ hand-held Godzilla in New York film) being the closest of a September 11 film to date (both due to the level of destruction, and the way it’s shot).

Mashup of Hillary Clinton’s run in the democratic primaries juxtaposed against Reese Witherspoon’s remarkably similar character from the film Election. A lovely mashup!

They’ve found a way to make yeast live ten times its normal lifespan, and now the question is whether a similar alteration might work on humans! (Seriously, though, who’s going to retire at 65 when they need 725 years of superannuation?)

“… the Doctor is more likely to overthrow the government on alien planets, or in the distant future. When he visits present-day Earth or our history, he’s an arch-conservative.” (Compares Doctor’s politics withe those of the UK party in power.)

A lovely booklet which details a lot of case studies in which Creative Commons licenses are meaningfully used in Asian countries and Australia. (The PDF is about 10Mb, but well worth a read.)

“After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book for free.”