Friday, January 17, 2003

The Top Science Stories of 2002 (Scientific American). 1:38:01 PM    comment []

It's your money. A careful consideration of accepting the conservative creed, at Space Waitress Gate A. Read it. 10:11:59 AM    comment []

FAMINE, AFFLUENCE, AND MORALITY, by Peter Singer (originally published in the first volume of Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (1972): 229-243, on the web at petersingerlinks.com). A BETTER WORLD?, by Peter Singer (Excerpted from One World, New Haven, pp. 196-201, also at petersingerlinks.com). 9:37:07 AM    comment []

"My Losing Season" becomes a book not just about basketball but "about the gauzy indistinctness of memory itself." So says Allen Barra, in "My Losing Season" by Pat Conroy: In the best basketball book to come out in years, the author of "The Great Santini" sings the praises of losing, losing and losing again (Salon). I heard an interview with him about this, or something else on the radio--maybe just someone else's review (the gauzy indistinctness of memory, indeed)--and reasoned that I would like it. Barra's praise encourages me in this view, to be sure. 8:36:58 AM    comment []

Technology and Music, Good Partners. This is a recording studio, believe it or not. It's a four-track recorder and mixer. It stores MP3 data... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:09:33 AM    comment []

English 515 at Purdue University focuses on weblogs. One of the assignments is to read this weblog. [Scripting News] 7:08:49 AM    comment []

In a Surprise, Microsoft Says It Will Pay Dividends [New York Times: Technology] 7:07:25 AM    comment []

Andrew: Damn, I'm a bad, bad blogger, aren't I? That's, what, 11 days without anything? Well, I have no excuse...well, except for my excuses. A_____, even more work (I get to go to a two hour meeting with a bunch of managers at 4pm every day now! Joy!), general laziness...eh, you get it. But I'm gonna try! I'm gonna try again! I can CHANGE! Please don't leave me! Good excuses, in actuality. Post by e-mail is your friend. 7:05:36 AM    comment []

Lessig loses sleep wondering about The Silent Five Justices who wrote no opinions and who have consistently argued that Congress’s power is limited; that enumerated powers must be read in a way that makes sense of those limits. It was my judgment that those justices would apply the same principle to the Copyright Clause, or at least explain why they did not. And ever since the argument on October 9, I have struggled to imagine how they could ever write an opinion that would distinguish commerce from copyright. It had never even crossed my mind that these 5 justices would simply duck the issue. . . . . He also writes about how he is questioning his faith that the Court acts out of principle (most of the time) rather than politically. 7:02:35 AM    comment []

Weapon of the Week: Ricin, the Unproven Poison, by George Smith, in The Village Voice. 5:35:59 AM    comment []

Liberation spectrum: Wi-Fi radio and Indian sovereignty make for a potent mix -- even without antsy venture capitalists mucking things up. Short story by Cory Doctorow, in Salon. 4:35:50 AM    comment []

Three years ago, on 'tother blog: A new week Monday, January 17, 2000 The week that was for Microsoft by Dan Gillmor Law Professors Told to Expect Competition From Virtual Learning (from The Chronicle of Higher Education) Canada's first Internet university opens. The AOL Deal Mourned by Ellen Ullman 2:35:31 AM    comment []

The A to Z of Usability: 2,662 articles about usability, IA, HCI and web design. (as of 15 Jan 2003). (thanks, Eszter!) 12:35:13 AM    comment []