Following the comment thread over on Sampo re: the NCAA mandate on ‘Native American’ mascots (this prompted by a CNN broadcast piece and a CBS online piece). The short version so far? The NCAA has stated that it will not conduct post-season/championship play at institutions which use what they consider to be “hostile or abusive” […]
Via MetaFilter: Bush favors Intelligent Design? No surprises there. Now leverage that in the post-evolution arguments…
Steven Johnson has an open letter to Hillary Clinton re: GTA:SA and “Hot Coffee”. My favorite part: Another key question: Of all the games that kids play, which ones require the most mental exertion? Parents can play this at home: Try a few rounds of Monopoly or Go Fish with your kids, and see who […]
Boing Boing on Disney World’s autonomous zoning…
A and I got our kayaks out on the water again (so soon!) today. This time the destination was Wrightsville Reservoir: A bit closer than our last trip and a bit more paddle friendly. (Though perhaps ironically we found the directions for it on a website devoted to area waterskiers.) Follow up Dr’s appointment yesterday […]
Via Slashdot: Dvorak trashes Creative Commons… There are several things that bother me about this initiative. First, Creative Commons is similar to a license. You sign up with the group and post a message saying that your material is protected or covered by Creative Commons. This means that others have certain rights to reuse the […]
Ebbers gets 25 years! Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for his part in the scandal which brought down the firm They should tack on an extra couple days b/c I’m still convinced that things go deeper than just the $11B fraud. “We’re moving to VT — offer […]
Re-publishing comments I left on this Sampo article…: War, soldiers, and everything else with a uniform seems to have become penultimately anathema for anyone with leftist leanings. Or else the leftist with the yellow ribbon loses his/her ride on the donkey by some kind of default. The prevailing attitude seems to be: This is your […]
So what spawned my meditation on this was an article by Lessig in the current issue of Wired but that article doesn’t seem to be online. However, Lessig does have this post available for background and reference etc. The short version? It costs a ridiculous amont of money to secure a license to sing, record, […]
Neat article “Continuous Commuting” that goes in to some interesting points re: ridesharing/carpooling and how cell phones could better encourage it.