November 2008
Economists Realizing That Current Music Industry... →
The music collection society MCPS PRS in the UK apparently had three economists coming from different viewpoints work together on a paper concerning the economics of the music industry on the…
October 2008
My host changed IPs and I updated my www CNAME but forgot to update the A record. Doh!
Deploying with Capistrano — GitHub Guides — GitHub →
MTV Bleeps File Sharing Software Out Of Music... →
Reader Matthew Muro writes in to let us know of a rather insane bit of news. MTV’s new video hosting site is apparently bleeping out the names of file sharing sites in Weird Al Yankovic’s famous…
Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method... →
I don’t say this often, but it looks like the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) — or “the patent court” — got a big one mostly right. In the rehearing of the Bilski case concerning…
Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's... →
People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on it. It’s not the first time that folks have argued that the damages sought by…
Judge Slams RIAA Tactics →
Early on, in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file sharers, it appeared that judges were mostly siding with the RIAA, and taking the RIAA’s claims at face value. However, due to widespread backlash,…
Just got a Time Capsule. Anyone interested in a cheap Linksys Draft-n router with DD-WRT installed?
P2Pnet Wins Landmark ‘Hyperlinking” Case →
The file-sharing oriented news website, P2Pnet, has won its case against the Canadian businessman Wayne Crookes. The Supreme Court ruled that linking to defamatory material doesn’t constitute as…
Jack Thompson disbarment listed →
Many will be familiar with Jack Thompson, the Florida lawyer disciplined following ever-stranger antics aimed at his nemesis, the game publishing industry. His disbarment is now official,…
myabc's merb_mart at master — GitHub →
We re-designed the site at work, http://www.cafepress.com. It looks WAY better.
Gentlemen Broncos' Chevalier Inspires with... →
Dr. Ronald Chevalier - Inspiring Oneself A new and wondrously inspirational video has surfaced from Dr. Ronald Chevalier — scientist, painter and award-winning author of all 10 Cyborg Harpies…
Secretary: Part 3 →
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28 times…I suppose I could’ve just done the math.
YUI: CSS Grid Builder →
Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why... →
Twine.com seems like the tumblelog to Squidoo’s blog. mreh
I’m finding things like Boxee (which is awesome) less useful since I spend a lot less time watching TV.
DMCA: Ten Years of Unintended Consequences →
Today is the tenth anniversary of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998. EFF is marking the occasion with the release of a…
Hollywood Menaces DVD Rental Kiosks →
Hollywood’s distaste for disruptive innovation isn’t limited to software products like RealDVD. Now it is targeting DVD rental kiosks, like the Redbox kiosk pictured here.
The idea…
Google Analytics - User Defined visitor tracking -... →
Google Analytics Tracking API - Google Analytics... →
Judge Reject's Woman's Request For A Jury Trial;... →
Ignoring numerous other court rulings concerning whether or not “making available” is copyright infringement, a judge has rejected a woman’s request for a jury trial in her file sharing lawsuit,…
Poladroid project : the easiest and funniest... →
I should wait until after consuming said espresso before I tweet. I’m still much to groggy for proper grammar.
I getting much better at making espresso.
Specialization →
As you may have noted, my last post seems to have hit a nerve in various communities, particularly with those who are convinced that REST means HTTP (because, well, that’s what they think it means)…
The Trouble with "Free Riding" →
This week, one of my favorite podcasts, EconTalk, features one of my favorite Internet visionaries, Clay Shirky. I interviewed Shirky when his book came out back in April. The host, Russ…
The New York Times Campaign Finance API →
Retrieve political campaign contribution and expenditure data based on United States Federal Election Commission filings. Data available in JSON, XML or serialized PHP. Registration…
Surprise, Surprise: E-Voting Glitches Found In... →
The GAO had warned that there would be some pretty massive e-voting problems this year, as election officials were not properly trained on the already problematic machines, so it should come as…
David Simon http://tinyurl.com/4j3s2y , listen to him!
Wassup 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5chbt3 via William Gibson
"iSafe" app for Android keeps the... →
Sascha Segan tells us about an overwrought app for Android phones called “iSafe”, a GPS-driven tracker for the paranoid that alerts its users when they’re in a high-crime area or motoring through a…
If you need to stay awake forget coffee. Take Excedrin!
Actuarial →
Scrumy →
Kip Hawley Responds to My Airport Security Antics →
Kip Hawley, head of the TSA, has responded to my airport security penetration testing, published in The Atlantic. Unfortunately, there’s not really anything to his response. It’s obvious he…
Presidential Insights →
Time magazine’s Joe Klein has a lengthy interview with Barack Obama, covering a variety of subjects. One section that leapt out at me, of course, was Obama’s observations about energy, the…
13 →
My daughter is now 13. You can tell this by the way she presents herself for dinner at a restaurant wearing red and black striped fingerless gloves, a black puffball skirt and tights, a t-shirt…
Judge Reminds Documentary Makers You Can't... →
In the past, we’ve discussed the oddity that moviemakers often purchase the rights to true stories before making movies about them. There’s really no legal reason for them to do so — as you can’t…
Andrew Keen: Put Some Money Behind Your... →
Andrew Keen, of course, is a guy who has written a laughably bad book about how only experts like himself should be able write things, because all those “amateurs” get stuff wrong. There are some who…
