Wednesday, April 23 2003

Just gave OmniGraffle Professional 3 a try. It rocks! Haven't looked at it — and consequently, worked with it — for a long time and a lot has happened since. Try it out and see for yourself.

By the way, it's my birthday today if you didn't know that, and I just got back home after spending one hour writing an analysis of Selma Lagerlöf's Kejsaren av Portugallien. Great stuff.

Now I'll probably head off to something exciting downtown. A tasty celebration dinner perhaps, at one of the fine resturants here in Gothenburg.

Jeff Belle of EContent: Wallach, an avid fan of the Dilbert comic strips, found the layout of United Media's Official Dilbert Web site really lame. And so, taking it upon himself to offer the world a better layout, he linked–the better to skirt the copyright issue–directly to United Media's Web server. He called his creation The Dilbert Hack Page.

Copyright infringements through hyperlinking seem so absurd. The article on EContent tells the story of Dan Wallach, the creator of the Dilbert Hack Page. His idea was simple. He created pages with links directly to the comic strip images on the official Dilbert site, owned by United Media. UM of course complained.

The absurd part was that UM took the copyright infringement route. Instead they should of course have made the image URLs dynamic, and perhaps tried to make sure that they could be loaded only from within their site. How hard could that have been?

Found via Recent Lessig News (will perhaps show up under Lessig News Archives URL in the near future).