Sunday, April 20, 2003

Lessig: Valenti the radical. A while ago I reported the wonderfully radical testimony of Jack Valenti against the removal of the FIN-SYN rules. I have not been able to find the testimony online. Here's a large pdf of a scan of the relevant section from the GPO's reports. 9:03:25 PM    comment []

xian: Iranian blogger arrested. Blogging has gotten pretty big in Iran, which is no surprise given the democratic strivings emerging from the enormous Persian youth culture. Now it appears that one Iranian blogger/journalist has been arrested. He is "accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and his weblog." [via o-dub] 9:00:06 PM    comment []

sharon fight. Sharon Osbourne reportedly got into a fight outside an L.A. restaurant last Thursday night. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 9:30:04 AM    comment []

Civics 101, Taught by Saddam Hussein. Samples from fifth- and sixth-grade textbooks in "national education" Saddam Hussein's version of civics. By Phebe Marr. [New York Times: Education] 6:39:12 AM    comment []

Smart Heuristics, by Gerd Gigerenzer, Edge 113. 4:48:59 AM    comment []