I do enjoy The Annoyed Librarian from time to time, and so should you. AL nailed a very specific sentiment (and totally trashed “memes”) that I often wish to convey to some folks…

GET A LIFE OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY

Bravo, AL. But - and I must mention this - Twitter rules. Join us!

Ars Technica: Is Lessig’s Free Culture just another Das Kopyright?

Yeah, no.

Yale ISP’s 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration.

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Every Week, Ben brings you the creative endeavors that deserve full-screen pixelization.

This week: So You Think You Can…oh, whatever.

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Ars Technica: NPR’s War on Low Power FM.

Social Media: The next generation is reshaping politics through social networking.

Every Friday, Ben brings you SD&IF’s weekend space filler With Us / Against Us. Prepare to be torn down, then gloriously uplifted!

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Oh and this happened: student ‘Twitters’ his way out of Egyptian jail.

This harks back to a sentiment I uttered immediately after having joined Twitter myself - how long until someone tries to use the service as an alibi in a court of law?

It’s been a couple weeks…but the Friday Roundup is back. Ready?

• Wired: The right-wing hater machine gunning for Obama Larry Lessig? [Also at AT] Why won’t they just let Jesus be fabulous?
  
• LAist: Headline I’ve been waiting my whole life to read - Justine Bateman, ‘Drunk College Students’ Team Up to Save the Internet.
• So, this exists: Committee to Protect Bloggers.
• Ars Technica: Canada is not immune!
• Edge (Boston): Landmark Canadian gay bookstore going up for sale.
• BusinessWeek: Does she look like a music pirate? [via]
• Save The Internet: “Piracy” = smoke screen.

And additionally, out of my own excitement, Michael Zimmer is joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, where I am currently a graduate student. He had some pretty rad things to say about it…

Happy Weekending!

Sivacracy: Ben Stein and anti-science producers misunderstand copyright and evolution.

Misunderstand being a very, very generous way of putting it.