August 1, 2007
links for 2007-08-02
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Cold Stone-- bleeauggh!
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The Peter Lugers Index?
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Excuse me while I fidget
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Yippe-ki-yay...
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web to-do list
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Remotely access a mac on an iphone
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The bottled water industry
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Interesting idea
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An oral history of The Simpsons
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Don't top-respond to emails
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Why wouldn't it be cheaper and less bureaucratic than the mess we have now?
July 30, 2007
links for 2007-07-31
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The LOLcats Bard
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Scott Turow discusses the problems with billing hours
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And yes, The Simpsons has been airing for multiple eras by now...
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Lots of information about events following "Deathly Hallows" (with spoilers!)
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"That’s why you’re the judge and I’m the law-talking guy."
July 25, 2007
links for 2007-07-26
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(How I Met Your Mother)
July 24, 2007
links for 2007-07-25
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Reuters Tour de France photographers run into a bit of trouble while covering the race
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It's not quite an iPhone version of NetNewsWire, but as close as we're going to get for now...
July 23, 2007
links for 2007-07-24
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Useful starting resource guide
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It's the ask Steve Albini forum!
July 19, 2007
links for 2007-07-20
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The greatest game ever
July 18, 2007
links for 2007-07-19
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The biggest hurdle-- clearing the music rights
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Snazzy
July 11, 2007
links for 2007-07-12
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More than meets the fine print
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Can't hold out much longer
June 27, 2007
June 22, 2007
links for 2007-06-23
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Does your company have a lolcats strategy yet?
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True that, double true
June 20, 2007
links for 2007-06-21
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Rockstar:Supernova - the reality show with the highest ratio of lawsuits:ratings?
June 19, 2007
links for 2007-06-20
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When do I get in line?
June 18, 2007
links for 2007-06-19
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The most amazing book ever
June 16, 2007
June 14, 2007
links for 2007-06-15
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Woke up this morning, got myself a wand...
June 6, 2007
May 29, 2007
May 14, 2007
April 27, 2007
April 24, 2007
April 21, 2007
April 10, 2007
March 26, 2007
links for 2007-03-27
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Major spoilers for the season 3 finale
March 19, 2007
links for 2007-03-20
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Is this the upside to P2P piracy?
March 15, 2007
March 14, 2007
links for 2007-03-15
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3.14 is notable for multiple reasons
March 13, 2007
March 12, 2007
March 7, 2007
links for 2007-03-08
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Matt Haughey interviews Mythbuster's Adam Savage (aka MeFi's asavage)
March 6, 2007
links for 2007-03-07
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Complaints about the Super Bowl broadcast
February 21, 2007
February 15, 2007
links for 2007-02-16
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An employment lawyer calculates the cost of the weekly hijinks at Dunder-Mifflin Scranton
February 11, 2007
February 8, 2007
Quick Links
Intellectual Property Watch: What’s Ahead For IP And The Music Industry - An Interview with Jacqueline Charlesworth, National Music Publishers’ Association. Discusses the Section 115 Reform Act, Compulsory Copyright Royalty rates, ringtones and XM.
Dion Dennis, Fear and Loathing in the Bay State: "So this is what it has come to: Two young artists (their demeanor an echo of 1960s creative expressiveness), paid a pittance to playfully market a surrealist cartoon movie starring several talking base-level consumer commodities, have been labeled semiotic terrorists and criminals by official reality. What does this political panic reflex, played out in the gerontocratic and the politically correct Commonwealth of Massachusetts, tell us?"
Web 2.0, explained in video
February 5, 2007
January 30, 2007
links for 2007-01-31
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Reconsidering Star Wars in the light of the prequels
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"Part-time judges give us part-time justice."
Citing to Wikipedia in School and in Court
Inside Higher Ed: A Stand Against Wikipedia: "While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web site as a source in papers or other academic work. All faculty members will be telling students about the policy and explaining why material on Wikipedia — while convenient — may not be trustworthy."
The New York Times: Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively: "A simple search of published court decisions shows that Wikipedia is frequently cited by judges around the country, involving serious issues and the bizarre — such as a 2005 tax case before the Tennessee Court of Appeals concerning the definition of 'beverage' that involved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and, just this week, a case in Federal District Court in Florida that involved the term 'booty music' as played during a wet T-shirt contest."
While universities are discouraging undergraduates from citing to Wikipedia, courts are more frequently relying on the site. Undergrad students are expected to be researching from primary sources, not from encyclopedias. So, just like the Encyclopedia Britannica should not be cited in a university level term paper, neither should Wikipedia. But in court? Wikipedia should be considered a valid citation for those facts that are considered to be common knowledge, obvious, or where no better citation can be found, such as for booty music.
January 28, 2007
links for 2007-01-29
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Calvin Trillan test drives Lexus's self-parking car
January 22, 2007
January 16, 2007
January 8, 2007
links for 2007-01-09
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The curmudgeons at the Economist like vinyl
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Idolator does a take on Pazz & Jop
January 4, 2007
January 2, 2007
links for 2007-01-03
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The new tube frontier
December 28, 2006
December 27, 2006
links for 2006-12-28
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New York magazine goes to the people
December 22, 2006
links for 2006-12-23
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Don't forget the RC cars...
December 20, 2006
links for 2006-12-21
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Can you be friends with a brand?
December 18, 2006
links for 2006-12-19
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(from 2003)
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Paparazzi v. blogger
December 15, 2006
December 14, 2006
links for 2006-12-15
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The law professor method