feedDan Brown Gets Off!
Leonardo´s Lost Robots
Mark Elling Rosheim
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | 'No surprise' in Da Vinci judgement: Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works enjoy protection for original work if they can establish “a degree of labour, skill or judgement” in producing it.See, there you go. The prosecuting attorney should have been arguing that Mr. Brown could not establish a degree of labour, skill or judgement in producing The Da Vinci Code. I'm relatively certain they could have found a few of us angry (or jealous) enough about having been tricked into reading it that they could have put up a decent case against him. Um, all snarkiness aside, this book really did drive me crazy, and I don't know why I'm posting about it except I wanted to start Monday morning with the headline “Dan Brown Gets Off.” I'm guessing I'll have a good number of Google searchers looking for something else entirely when they land on this page (hello, Google searchers!), but I'll take that risk for the sheer joy of being snarky. And because Holy Week has begun, and I'm betting you didn't know that the Monday of Holy Week is called either “Thersdee Mundee” (in the made up language of Notmel) or “Snarky Monday” (in the made up language of Gibsonics). Today is the day that Jesus said, in a moment of true and original snarkiness after Judas told him what would happen if Judas tattled on him: “Bring 'em on.” You know, it loses something in the translation. Happy Snarky Monday.
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