This Slashdot story lead me to check out Matt Blaze’s site. (I have geek jealousy of his domain name.) Matt’s a CS prof who specializes in security issues, and in addition to the safecracking paper, there’s lots of other interesting bits on his pages. I suspect I will be reading stuff there for several days at least. Read more →
Day: January 2, 2005
Start reading the top IP law blogs in less than five minutes
One of the areas of interest to me as a concerned liberal is the area of intellectual property–I am concerned about copyright extension and the erosion of the public domain, I’m concerned about software patents and the stifiling of innovation, and I’m perhaps most generally concerned about the way our various governments seem to put the short term economic good… Read more →
Need a happy
After that last post I need a happy. And here is one. It appears that the same people responsible for that monster Complete Far Side collection that everyone was talking about–did anyone actually buy one?–are also producing another collection that I must own. Details. I have wanted this for years. The pricing is ridiculous, but hey, I have disposable income… Read more →
Ritalin
Look, I have always hated the idea of Ritalin. Hearing Henry Rollins do his spoken word bit about his experiences with Ritalin just confirmed all my uninformed prejudices. But, today I have seen something that I think is the most perfect, and most heart-rending, argument against it ever. Make with the clickie and see for yourself. The convincer. Read more →
