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Empiricism vs. human nature
Ah the David Brooks I've come to know and love showed up today: "...the current financial crisis — how so many people could be so stupid, incompetent a…
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Golan v. Holder - Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment in the District Court
The Golan case was back before the District Court on remand to determine whether the URAA can survive First Amendment scrutiny. Each side cross-moved for summar…
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Ghostery.com: Not Just A Cool Icon
David Cancel just created a wonderful privacy enhancing technology for Firefox---up there with Ad Blocker Plus in my view. In a simple and straightforward way,…
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Shmeat
I just created a group on facebook to discuss this topic further... I'd love to see a discussion arise over there. I must say, I don't like the term &q…
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Advancing meat subsitutes
In response to my prior post on the topic of meat substitutes, I received an email from Jason Matheny, who works with New Harvest, a great non-profit organizati…
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FCC Hearing Compilation
Stanford Reference Librarian and Archivist Sarah Wilson created this wonderful compilation of testimonies, statements, press releases, news coverage and other m…
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Devices As Themselves Social
Social networks have gotten a lot of play in recent years. What about social devices? I've been thinking about whether/how the nature of computer interfac…
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Teaching Reverence for Life
Thanks to my friend Tom Fee for sharing this piece by Albert Schweitzer... "No human being is ever totally and permanently a stranger to another human bein…
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Happy Public Domain Day - January 1, 2009 - new additions to unpublished public domain in the U.S.
January 1 is Public Domain Day--the day when new works around the world come into the public domain. Some countries, the term of copyright is life of the autho…
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Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari, Oslo, 10 December 2008
On this last day of a very difficult year for the world, I'd like to end the year with a speech from this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: "…
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Web-Wide Cops
John Dunn, on the PCWorld web site: "The Internet needs to be globally regulated if it is to have any chance of stopping scams such as security 'scarew…
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Quito Enterprises Asserts US 5,890,152 on Boxing Day
Quito Enterprises filed a patent infringement suit in Florida against Netflix, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Slacker, Pandora Media, Strands, Veoh Networks, Realnetworks,…