The Liberal Academy?
Wednesday, 30 June 2004I have a complex reaction to Donald Lazere’s article, “The Contradictions of Cultural Conservatism in the Assault on American Colleges,” in the July 2 edition of Chronicle of Higher Education [via La Di Da]. I believe that it is in the free section of the Chronicle’s website, so please go read it in full before [...]
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Hopefully
Wednesday, 30 June 2004Hopefully Monday’s Supreme Court rulings will keep things like this from happening again.
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Supreme Court Does Some Good
Tuesday, 29 June 2004Back in Bush v. Gore (2000), Justice John P. Stephens wrote in his dissenting opinion: It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision. [...]
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Karolina Sprem
Monday, 28 June 2004Last Thursday, I was having lunch with a collegue, and I kept being distracted by the Wimbledon tennis match on TV. The sound was off, and the closed captioning was covering up the score, but I still kept getting sucked in. (Remind me to rant sometime about how stupid it is to cover up the [...]
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Cory Doctorow at Microsoft
Sunday, 27 June 2004Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave a talk about digital rights management (DRM) at Microsoft Research a couple of weeks ago. It is a very good talk. He explains why DRM systems don’t work, are bad for society, are bad for business, are bad for artists, and are a bad business move for [...]
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My Tropical Paradise
Sunday, 27 June 2004To give you some background on my new aquarium, I have been talking about setting up an aquarium since shortly after we moved. My plan was to set one up in my office first, and then set one up at home later. Becky got tired of me talking about it and never doing anything about [...]
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