Thumbs up! Thanks, Barack Obama! I learned this reading Jac's new post "3 thoughts on Election Day 2008 (with photos of the Obama family watching the results)." Jac's post is worth reading too. I liked this: Co…
015 copy , originally uploaded by Nina Camic . He's French. For more pictures from Normandy, read Nina's blog, — which is so full of pictures right now that it's very slow-loading.
WSJ Law Blog has the story: In the latest chapter of the AutoAdmit.com scandal, two female Yale Law School students have sued Anthony Ciolli, the Web site’s former “chief educational director,” and more than two dozen others who …
The Himalayan Times reports (yeah, I'm getting my news about Sacha Baron Cohen from Nepal!): Dovale Glickman plans to sue the Golden Globe-award winning comedian for copyright infringement... The Israeli comedian coined the …
“If you knew then what you know now and you had the chance to acquire Amazon or eBay — which weren’t making any money either — you would have bought them.” Is YouTube worth $1.65 billion? How do you make money with it? Embed ads…
Oprah's suing him for running an Oprah for President website, and Patrick Crowe continues to push for Oprah for President. And don't give me that oh, he's a retired math teacher crap. He's selling a book. Patric…
Read this article, by Kevin Kelly of Wired. It's long, but well worth the read. Key passage: What is the technology telling us? That copies don't count any more. Copies of isolated books, bound between inert covers, soon…
Henry M. Morris, dead at 87: Dr. Morris was a hydraulic engineer and taught at several universities before developing his critique of evolution and a history of Earth that spans 4.5 billion years in the 1961 work "The Genesi…
A reader emails: A few weeks back you mentioned in passing that audio of Supreme Court arguments are available at www.oyez.org In the context you seemed to imply that they would be of interest mainly to lawyers. I went and downl…
Here 's the Capital Times article about my talk yesterday at the Chaos and Complex Systems seminar. With a picture of me! I wrote about the seminar here , blogged from the seminar here , and offered an inside look at Clint Sp…
Last spring, I had a temporary copy of the program iBlog, and I started a second blog, which I kept up until the software expired. But I still occasionally get email from people who protest this post , about trying to figure out …
Earlier today, I asked readers to email suggestions for the official state rock song. I'm getting some good email, so I'm going to do a Part I post. More parts to come (presumably). If you're in a state other than Wi…
The NYT Book Review does a cover review of Christopher Ricks's book about Bob Dylan lyrics (which I've been reading, as noted here ). The title of the book is "Dylan's Visions of Sin," as you can see in the…
Sampling--for painters. What are we to think of a painter who paints from someone else's photos ? Should a key point be that the photographer is not purveying his photos as art but is a photojournalist? Should it matter that…