DAOITMK

I've discovered a revolutionary book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. I haven't only just started it so I don't fully know how good it is, I called it revolutionary because the author released the entire book under a Creative Commons license, the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license more specifically. Anyone can freely copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and they can also make derivative works.

Just from the prologue it appears it will be a good read. The humor even begins before the book starts.

I’m releasing the entire text of this book as a free, freely redistributable e-book. You can download it, put it on a P2P net, put it on your site, email it to a friend, and, if you’re addicted to dead trees, you can even print it.

"Addicted to dead trees", I laughed when I read that bit, though my mother didn't think it was funny. For quicker access to the book, I saved it to my USB key and made a shorter URL for it, http://daoitmk.blogspot.com. Do not be alarmed by the .blogspot.com ending, it is not a blog. The entire template is

<meta equiv="Refresh" content=".001; URL=http://www.craphound.com/down/Cory_Doctorow_-_Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom.htm">

so it instantly takes you to the book, leaving no trace of a blog.

I must continue reading.