happy mutants Bunnie Huang's classic "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" is now free online Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Just This Banjo: free/open banjo instruction for an angry moment, because you can't be sad while playing the banjo Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies Cory Doctorow
Science Artificial tongue's nanoscale "tastebuds" can sort real whisky from counterfeits more than 99% of the time Cory Doctorow
publishing Elsevier: "It's illegal to Sci-Hub." Also Elsevier: "We link to Sci-Hub all the time." Cory Doctorow
Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
politics The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF Cory Doctorow
floss Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow
publishing University of California system libraries break off negotiations with Elsevier, will no longer order their journals Cory Doctorow
events To do tonight in San Francisco: commemorating the sixth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death Cory Doctorow
Science New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible" Cory Doctorow
Science Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation Cory Doctorow
Science Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The EU's new Link Tax bans the use of Creative Commons and open access for news Cory Doctorow
