The following entries were written in the News category:
Turning on the television just now, four sequential stations had concurrent news coverage about the E. coli infested spinach fiasco. Maybe the DHS should bump the threat level or something.
When I heard last night that the Supreme Court had made a ruling in favor of MGM in the Grokster case, I was pretty upset. This is clearly an issue of a technology that has enormous potential for legal uses, and is therefore covered by the 1984 Sony decision. As it turns out, that’s what the court of appeals thought, too, and it’s rather irrelevant in this case.
If a picture was taken “at an angle,” applying transformations to a digital representation of the picture to make it appear as if it were “taken square on” doesn’t change the fact that it was, in fact, taken “at an angle”.
I have just finished reading all of the unread articles in NNW. This is the first time its unread-count has dropped below 500 in about a week.
This is awesome. An experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS. This will undoubtedly be taken down (as it violates the Google TOS), but this is a wonderful sign of things to come, I’m…
I thought it would be interesting to write down the links which I visit on a regular basis (usually daily). Here’s what I can come up with off the top of my head: MegaTokyo: A comic that has me helplessly…
This is absurd. The LA Times is reporting: In an effort to promote better health, the Los Angeles school district’s board is expected Tuesday to ban soft drink sales during school hours at all of its 677 schools The article…