Feb 27, 2004

Creative Commons Explained Through Fun Comics!

The Creative Commons website has some fantastic introductoriy materials for its licenses, in comic book form! What a neat way to make these dry legal documents more palatable.

Licenses Explained

How it Works

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Inventions

Last night, I was trying to get to sleep (why is that so freaking hard to do lately? I used to hit the pillow and then Zzzzzzzz) and I started thinking about various things my father claimed to have 'invented'. Although completely unverifiable because the ideas stayed in his head, the list is quite impressive. My mother has corroborated some of these claims, admitting that he did, in fact, think of it first.

  • Tethered pacifier for babies, so when they spit it out it just hangs around their neck instead of hitting the floor.
  • Screw tops for soda bottles, when they still needed a bottle opener
  • Flip-tops for toothpaste, upon seeing the flip-top brilliance of Hunts Tomato Ketchup. It took them years to do this after he thought of it.
  • Coining the term "Whiz" when referring to urination

I know there's more, but I can't think of them at the moment. Anyone else have crazy "My father invented..." stories?

For posterity, here's some of the things I myself claim to have "Invented," although the ideas will stay lodged in my brain until someone else patents them and bets the farm on the idea. I wonder, is there something like a GPL for patents?

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