Mock. Mockmockmock. Mockity-mock-mock

6:05am: Sorry to post again, but this is fairly significant: via Leaky Lounge, full transcripts of all three days of the Lexicon trial. They are from Stanford (whose Fair Use Project is providing RDR's defense), but it's more than we've had before. The discussion of these transcripts at LL is worth reading, by the way.

(Previously on the Thirty Years’ Wank: A metric ton of articles and an interview with SVA. Watch This Page for update alerts.)

ETA: Anne Rice weighs in.

ETA 2 (May 1): Okay, I'm a bit behind on ETA links, but:

insanitys_place: The Lexicon has corrected the "Alohomora" entry with information from JKR's testimony... not that it's credited as such.

Neil Gaiman weighs in again (and again).

waltraute: Orson Scott Card weighs in.

foresthouse: "This article from CNN by "a legal analyst on "American Morning" is new and discusses the law and views from different lawyers (like Tim Wu who was mentioned before). It's well written."

jedi_dwh: "The Hollywood Reporter is still on the case, and doing a pretty good job of keeping things balanced. It appears their law writers actually- GASP- do their homework!"

Ouch: Potter fan a crybaby in court.

3:12pm: It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
(I wish I could say that I got into text-adventure games when they originally came out, but I'm not as old-school as I'd like to be. My sister-in-law gave me copies in the mid-90s.)

INFOCOM!! Creators of the Zork series and other text-adventures. Together with Douglas Adams, they also created one of the fucking hardest games ever (my younger self may be biased), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

24 years after the release of the HHGttG game, Andy Baio over at Waxy.org gets a hold of "a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989."

Full article here.

It's a fascinating read regarding the game and the trials and tribulations concerning its uncompleted sequel, Milliways.

Where the wank comes in is in the comments. You see, the article contains a whole lot of employee email culled from the database. And Mr. Baio did not ask permission before publishing his article. Some seem okay about this, others, like Michael Bywater (first comment here, but there are many down the page if you search on his name), are not happy AT ALL.

Or, as Brian Moriarty commented here:

>OPEN CAN OF WORMS
Opened.