Friday
Drew Clark published a useful article about technology and copyright.
Praveen took me to the ACCRC, which is a computer recycling center out in Alameda, where a group of people were working on preparing some computers to be sent to Ecuador. The ACCRC has a huge space full of all kinds of computers and computer parts -- hundreds of monitors on pallets, hundreds of computers stacked up everywhere, racks, servers, hard drives, modems...
It reminded some of us of Weird Stuff's warehouse. In fact, the two places have a lot in common.
It was really very impressive to see the scale on which they operate. Since computers are now classified as hazardous waste, on account of the heavy metals, people are actually paying ACCRC to take their old computers. (The rates are very reasonable.) ACCRC, in turn, is able to pay salaries to people who work on the recycling projects, and the computers are eventually donated to a huge range of schools, organizations, and poor communities. Parts which are completely broken are sold for scrap to scrap dealers who, I'm told, will dispose of any resulting waste according to the best current practices.
Hey, what rhymes with "copyright"? one attempt is "haughty might". You can do it by rhyming "copy" and "right" individually -- e.g. "choppy light", "sloppy kite", "poppy bite", etc.
