http://www.metafilter.com/tags/BPL Posts tagged with 'BPL' at MetaFilter. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:17 -0800 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/82252/Steamer%2DTrunks%2Dand%2DGang%2DPlanks <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/sets/72157618058787787/">Travel Posters</a> &mdash; a Flickr set from the <a href="http://www.bpl.org/">Boston Public Library</a>. <em>"Combining superb illustration and hand-drawn typography, they produced dazzling images in rich vibrant colors rendered through the magic of stone lithography." (<a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=39637#more">via</a>)</em> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82252 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:17 -0800 art boston bpl illustration library lithography posters travel netbros http://www.metafilter.com/46292/SBC%2DVonage%2DGoogle%2DInternet%2Dpay%2DYahoo <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_45/b3958089.htm">"They use my lines for free -- and that's bull."</a> The CEO of SBC Communications Inc. Ed Whitacre launched this criticism at the likes of Vonage, Google,Yahoo and MSN. Meanwhile Google is <a href="http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN13349148"> seeking </a> some <a hef=”http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69271,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5" ">alternative</a> paths to<a href="http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171202569"> the Internet.</a>Perhaps SBC should head the old adage from John Gilmore <a href="http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/dpost/accidentalsuperhighway.htm">"the net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it”</a>Or perhaps these companies need to pay the proverbial Internet plumbers; myself, I prefer more competition;<a href="http://assets.wharton.upenn.edu/~faulhabe/732/InternetKilledPhone.html">my phone bill has never been lower! </a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.46292 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:30:56 -0800 BPL free FTTH Google Internet MSN SBC WIFI thedailygrowl