Lots of good links from the past couple of weeks. Enjoy, in particular, Anonymous shuts down Westboro Baptist Church site — during a live interview and Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya) – Chris Peterson. Do, also, play the poverty game at PlaySpent – it’s not fun, but it’ll give you a good idea of how the poor in America exist, day to day.
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Another batch of links for you. This batch is heavier on censorship news and freedom of the press type issues, rather than law. Something’s happened with LAW.com‘s Law Technology News Feed, giving me tantalizing headlines but no actual articles. Oh, well.
A few fascinating links in today’s post, not least of which is A Year from a Window in Oslo, Norway. Enjoy!
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Another batch of links for you. Enjoy!
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So, today’s links are pretty weighty. Do begin with asking yourself, Did a U.S. Government Lab Help Israel Develop Stuxnet? Continue with wondering about The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Species. If you’re still not at all depressed, read about The decline effect and the scientific method.
There are, of course, many MANY other things to read. Enjoy!
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Good Code? Yeah, well, go right ahead and try for that, why dontcha.
Today’s links are a bit early … or, well, a bit late. It all depends upon whether you wanted your links to show up 1 week at a time, or at some arbitrary threshold (i.e., 66 links). Whatever. Enjoy them.
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Another batch of links for you all. The WikiLeaks thing keeps on showing up, but it appears that the furor has died down quite a bit. I’m glad about that, but can’t say that I’m pleased to note the trend out there towards preemptively censoring things.
Have a look at Are We Too Dumb for Democracy? The Logic Behind Self-Delusion. It’s quite an interesting article, addressing how, when confronted with facts which contradict our beliefs, we tend to discard the fact, rather than the belief. Not a good thought, really.
In any event, here they are, the links of the past few weeks. Enjoy!
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This week’s links are largely dominated by the unfolding WikiLeaks saga. It’s quite interesting, really, reading the opposing views, and understanding that the world is frightened of truth, particularly politicians. Of interest (not related directly to WikiLeaks, but feeding into the frenzy) is research which shows that Fox News Makes You Stupid. It’s quite telling that Fox is the dominant news station throughout the US, and has such an effect upon the populace. No wonder so many are frightened of truth: they live their lives believing lies.
The comic is, of course, Dilbert. What they’re referring to is that FaceHook has now incorporated facial recognition, which scans your pictures and those of your “friends” to “suggest” that you tag them.
In any event, enjoy the links!
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Welcome to this week’s “links” post. Yes, the biggest thing in here is political, having to do with WikiLeaks and all of that. There were other things going on in the world … but WikiLeaks just took everything by storm, really. I mean, how can you not be interested?
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More links for you. Of note today is that Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial, which basically means that they couldn’t intimidate the poor guy into paying a fortune and/or making a plea deal … so they dropped the case. The legal merits of the case were pretty flimsy to begin with – after all, this is a guy with a soldering iron & some electronic components who was able to make the XBox do things that the Evil Empire (i.e., Microsoft) didn’t want it to be able to do. So, break out the high-pressure tactics, the prosecutors who “lost” evidence, etc. My guess is that they didn’t want this case to ever go to a jury trial, because, hey, really, he (or his clients) owned the XBox. If it were to have gone to trial, the jury would have been hard-pressed to say what wrong had been done, and the DMCA would have been under pressure for some of its more idiotic clauses. So, they let it go. Evil creatures.
There are lots more of interest, of course, including the odd idea that Yellow-Bellied Marmots May Inherit Social Victimization. Yep: the kid who’s always picked on, at least amongst the marmots, has inherited that role. But bullies don’t inherit being bullies. Truly odd, this has some interesting possibilities for how we as humanity function. Enjoy!
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Another batch of links for you all. Of note is an article quoting from Time Berners-Lee, the ‘founder of the web’: Berners-Lee: Social Networks Are a ‘Threat to the Web’. It points to a much lengthier piece, in Scientific American. Both are worth reading, if you have the time. As always, more below.
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