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Elementary, My Dear Bilbo

By on October 22, 2010 5

Martin Freeman

Very good news! After announcing only the other day that he was turning down the role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movie in order to return as Dr. Watson in Steven Moffat’s marvelous Sherlock series, Martin Freeman has apparently been cast as Bilbo after all – which strikes me as absolutely perfect casting. (Remember him also as Arthur Dent, like Bilbo a bewildered everyman thrown into cosmic adventure, in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.) This means he’ll be doing both Bilbo and Watson, I hope?

Addendum: Yup, he’s confirmed as doing both. And if you haven’t seen Sherlock, the first episode is playing on PBS’s Mystery! this weekend.

Down With IP! Long Live C4SIF!

By on October 13, 2010 3

Stephan Kinsella has started a new anti-IP outfit called the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom. The Advisory Board includes Michele Boldrin, Julio Cole, Karl Fogel, David Koepsell, David Levine, Wendy McElroy, Nina Paley, Jeff Tucker, and your humble correspondent. Here’s our mission statement:

The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property rights, free markets, competition, commerce, cooperation, and the voluntary sharing of knowledge, and oppose laws that systematically impede or hamper innovation, especially those enforced in the name of defending “intellectual property,” such as patent and copyright; these should be radically reformed or entirely abolished.

We provide news commentary and analysis and scholarly resources from our unique pro-property, pro-market, pro-innovation perspective.

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Also check out our cool logo (designed by Stephanie Long – no relation AFAIK). “The bird … symbolizes freedom, while the origami aspect symbolizes man-made creativity”:

Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom

And if you copy it we will totally sue your ass.

Feds Plant Surveillance Device on Student’s Car, Then Demand It Back

By on October 8, 2010 4

Yet another reason the FBI needs to be abolished and its personnel systematically investigated and prosecuted:

We’re here to recover the device you found on your vehicle. It’s federal property. It’s an expensive piece, and we need it right now. …

We’re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don’t cooperate. …

You don’t need to call your lawyer.

Read the rest.

The victim probably should have gotten legal advice before relinquishing the device (evidence!), but given the pressure he was under it’s hard to blame him.

Possible Doctor Who Spoiler

By on October 7, 2010 2

Leaked evidence suggests that an upcoming episode of Doctor Who will be shot in the u.s.

But that’s not the possible spoiler. The possible spoiler, if actual, is fairly big, so I’m consigning it to the comments section. Proceed at your peril.

SPOILER WARNING:

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