There is a big copyright violation fight going on between Copyright Holders and Google about what is fair use and what is a violation. I came across a great article by Cory Doctorow on this issue. He is firmly on the side of Google on this issue and lists the three main points of contention:
Google [...]
Here are the books read in the past few weeks:
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell is about snap judgements (the author terms this as thinslicing)that we make about things, people. It gives a lot of examples where people make judgements about certain objects (e.g. whether a statue is genuine [...]
Enter picture mode (ESC-x picture-mode)
Marking rectangle
Go to top left corner, press CTRL-Space.
Go to bottom right, press CTRL-x-x (This selects the rectangle)
Working on rectangle
Press CTRL-x-r-k to kill the rectangle (and make it available as ‘last-killed-rectangle’)
Press CTRL-x-r-d to delete the rectangle
Press CTRL-x-r-y to yank ‘last-killed-rectangle’ with its top right at the mark.
Press ESC-x-clear-rectangle to fill the rectangle [...]
