"For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.

This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do..."

The Right to Read by Richard Stallman

Pavel Filonov

6000 intriguing people you want to meet online before you die
Ok, well, maybe more like 20... but it's a start.

The great appear great in our eyes
Only because we are kneeling.
Let us rise!

--Loustalot, 1789

Motto of the day:

Lege, lege, lege, labora, ora, et relege

An old alchemist maxim translated as:

Read, read, read, work, take, and reread.