Links

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?

Copyright / Law:

• Viacom Says YouTube Ruling Will ‘Completely Destroy’ Copyright    3 December 2010, 12:25 pm
• Righthaven Expands Troll Operation With Newspaper Giant    7 December 2010, 1:36 pm
• UK libel laws risk patient safety    8 December 2010, 2:00 am
• Copyright Unclear: Turkey Scrambles to Protect National Anthem    8 December 2010, 3:36 am
• The War on Cameras – Reason Magazine    8 December 2010, 7:27 am
• A Non-Transferable IP License Means What It Says    8 December 2010, 10:51 am
• EFF Demands Copyright Troll Pay for Suing Democratic Underground    8 December 2010, 12:42 pm
• Democratic Underground Responds to Righthaven Copyright Troll Lawsuit    8 December 2010, 12:58 pm
• Copyright Troll Demands Drudge Report Domain Name    9 December 2010, 3:38 pm
• Google eBooks open for business    10 December 2010, 9:55 am
• Advising Authors on Granting Electronic Rights to Publishers    10 December 2010, 11:35 am

Education:

• Schools See Surge in Computer Science Classes    6 December 2010, 10:16 am
• Report Finds K-12 Computer Science Education Declining    8 December 2010, 8:59 am
• Civil-Rights Panel Weighs in on Where Minorities Fare Best in STEM Fields    8 December 2010, 9:03 am
• Comparing Increases in U.S. Corrections and Higher Education Spending    9 December 2010, 7:19 am

Environment:

• ‘Salmon summit’ over decimated species    5 December 2010, 6:11 pm
• PHOTOS: “Alarming” Amazon Drought—River Hits New Low    6 December 2010, 12:28 pm
• Supreme Court Takes Climate Pollution Case    6 December 2010, 3:08 pm

Human Computer Interaction:

• “Minority Report” Computing Gets Slightly More Real    9 December 2010, 8:54 am

Medical Technology:

• Imitating someone’s accent makes it easier to understand them    6 December 2010, 2:00 pm
• Brain’s visual circuits do error correction on the fly    6 December 2010, 9:00 pm
• Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life    7 December 2010, 4:00 pm
• The Illusion of Truth    8 December 2010, 3:20 am
• ‘One-drop rule’ appears to persist for biracial individuals: People consistently view biracials as members of their lower-status parent group    8 December 2010, 9:00 pm
• Thought for food: Imagining food consumption reduces actual consumption    8 December 2010, 9:00 pm
• Politics and eye movement: Liberals focus their attention on ‘gaze cues’ much differently than conservatives do    9 December 2010, 2:00 pm
• Fake Watchful Eyes Discourage Naughty Behavior    10 December 2010, 9:43 am

Museum / Library / Archive / Records Management:

• The World’s First Book of Animals    5 December 2010, 8:53 pm
• Building Ethical Walls in Microsoft SharePoint    9 December 2010, 5:54 am
• BBC News – Past Scottish voices archive to go online    9 December 2010, 3:14 pm
• 21st-Century Imaging Helps Scholars Reveal Rare 8th-Century Manuscript    10 December 2010, 11:30 am

Politics:

• ‘Key Foreign Policy Issue’: US Attempts to Influence World Climate Body    7 December 2010, 2:26 am
• 'Bliss' Follows Globetrotting Grump's Search for Joy : NPR    7 December 2010, 9:20 am
• Republican Congressmen Crowdsource Attack on Science    7 December 2010, 12:35 pm
• Homeland Security ‘messages’ coming to Walmart, hotels, malls | Raw Story    8 December 2010, 3:47 am
• Drastic Cuts and Punitive Interest Rates: The EU Is Pushing Ireland to the Brink of Ruin    8 December 2010, 4:15 am
• Copenhagen Climate Cables: The US and China Joined Forces Against Europe    8 December 2010, 8:47 am
• Celebrating Liu Xiaobo    9 December 2010, 11:22 pm
• Human Rights Day: Words without borders    10 December 2010, 5:00 am
• Mapping the global increase of wealth    10 December 2010, 11:34 am

Politics: WikiLeaks:

• Wikileaks and the hazards of “intermediary censorship”    3 December 2010, 7:08 am
• PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account    4 December 2010, 12:31 am
• Hacking for the Party: Cables Suggest Chinese Support for Cyber Espionage    4 December 2010, 1:34 pm
• Wikileaks: The internet ideal triumphs    6 December 2010, 5:40 am
• Columbia University Reverses Anti-WikiLeaks Guidance    6 December 2010, 9:24 am
• WikiLeaked Cable Says 2009 Brazilian Blackout Wasn’t Hackers, Either    6 December 2010, 2:15 pm
• Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America    6 December 2010, 4:49 pm
• The Cable Guy: Julian Assange Becomes US’s Public Enemy No. 1    7 December 2010, 1:57 am
• Australian leader backs off WikiLeaks comment    7 December 2010, 12:27 pm
• The World from Berlin: Assange’s ‘Martyr Status’ Further Damages US Reputation    8 December 2010, 5:44 am
• Mastercard.com Taken Down by Pro-WikiLeaks Forces    8 December 2010, 7:53 am
• Wikileaks treated like terrorist group    8 December 2010, 7:56 am
• The FBI Arbitrarily Covers Up Evidence of Misconduct: Is This the Transparency Obama Promised?    8 December 2010, 11:44 am
• WikiLeaks has revealed the state of hypocrisy    8 December 2010, 2:34 pm
• Vigilantes Take Offensive in WikiLeaks Censorship Battle    8 December 2010, 2:42 pm
• Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You    8 December 2010, 5:53 pm
• Visa site down, WikiLeaks supporters’ next target    8 December 2010, 5:56 pm
• Hijacked Weapons: A Discreet Deal for the War in Sudan    9 December 2010, 5:38 am
• What if Your Company Has a ‘WikiLeaks’ Problem?    9 December 2010, 6:12 am
• WikiLeaks’ payment processor to sue card companies    9 December 2010, 7:36 am
• Philly company accepting donations for WikiLeaks    9 December 2010, 8:42 am
• The CIA’s El-Masri Abduction: Cables Show Germany Caved to Pressure from Washington    9 December 2010, 10:49 am
• Dutch Arrest Teen for Pro-WikiLeaks Attack on Visa and MasterCard Websites    9 December 2010, 11:32 am
• DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group    9 December 2010, 1:05 pm
• Amazon: Here’s Why We’re Not Hypocrites For Selling WikiLeaks Book (AMZN)    9 December 2010, 5:14 pm
• US looks into cyber attacks on WikiLeaks foes    9 December 2010, 5:14 pm
• The Nigeria Report: A Cesspool of Corruption and Crime in the Niger Delta    10 December 2010, 2:47 am
• Blocking WikiLeaks: Can Free Speech Be Protected on a Private Internet?    10 December 2010, 3:23 am
• US Diplomats in the EU: Manipulating the Political Dwarves of Europe    10 December 2010, 5:53 am
• Former WikiLeaks worker: rival site under way    10 December 2010, 10:15 am
• WikiLeaks Avoids Shutdown as Supporters Worldwide Go on the Offensive    10 December 2010, 11:24 am

Privacy:

• Stanford Students Create ‘Do Not Track’ Software    6 December 2010, 10:17 am
• Oregon Alert: Thank Senator Wyden for Opposing Internet Censorship    6 December 2010, 4:48 pm
• 2010: E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy    6 December 2010, 6:24 pm
• Microsoft to Ramp Up Browser Privacy    8 December 2010, 9:02 am
• The first truly honest privacy policy    10 December 2010, 3:47 am

Robotics:

• Robots Imitate Honey Bees for Aircraft Aerobatics    6 December 2010, 10:17 am
• Welcome to the Future    8 December 2010, 9:03 am
• Thai Robots Clash for Shot at World Championship    10 December 2010, 11:26 am
• Students Compete With Robots Built of Legos    10 December 2010, 11:27 am

Security:

• Dutch police investigate apparent hacker attack    10 December 2010, 9:01 am

Technology:

• Records management: the plasterer's hammer?    6 December 2010, 6:44 am
• It Will Soon Be Too Late to Stop the Cyberwars    6 December 2010, 10:16 am
• Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship    7 December 2010, 6:45 pm
• China to Lead World in Innovation by 2020—Survey    8 December 2010, 9:00 am
• Scientists Map What Factors Influence the News Agenda Across the EU    10 December 2010, 11:25 am
• Diminishing Returns? U.S. Science Productivity Continues to Decline    10 December 2010, 11:28 am

-D