Means Tests for Copyright Registration
Via Tim Bray via Sam Ruby, the Copyright Office asks whether a public entity should even consider writing vendor-specific markup. At this point in the process o...
Via Tim Bray via Sam Ruby, the Copyright Office asks whether a public entity should even consider writing vendor-specific markup. At this point in the process o...
The Little Sister makes us laugh. Daddy, carry me. I can’t walk; my leg is bored.
Consumer Reports's ISP comparison smackdown
The New York Times reports that there may be some architectural issues with a proposed Apple store on lower Fifth Avenue. Plunked amid a phalanx of ornate build...
On June 3rd, Viacom, the owner of WCBS 101.1 FM in New York City, bought an iPod Shuffle, changed that station’s format, and fired all the disc jockeys. W...
The girls found a turtle wandering in our yard, just a day after rescuing a baby bird which had fallen from its nest.
The New York Times noticed that the Disney theme parks are not meeting expectations. Of course they aren’t. The Quickie-Marts in Kissimmee are starting ne...
Rebecca Blood points to a Chronicle of Higher Education article on orphaned works. There’s a great deal of cost involved in finding the authors of many wo...
One of the considerations with the location of a house is which school district it is in. In some states, determining the school district is easy: it’s co...
National Geographic has an excellent documentary based on Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel now playing on PBS. I suggest telling the TiVo to catch i...
I spent the majority of today installing an enterprise-class document management system’s client. Now, I get a request to file my request for x electronic...
Can you imagine a world where the supply does not respond to the demand? I can. It’s called in-house software.
John Lienhard, in his essay Fusang, talks about the Chinese discovery of the Americas. The Chinese were very isolationist, 1500 years ago. China thought the out...
Is procrastination a learned behavior, or genetic?
I have to wonder in what world industry analysts live. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article on broadband prices’ dropping to dial-up levels discusses th...
Via Ernie the Attorney we find that the Congresscritters have the mistaken impression that they are there to do something. In the instant case, it’s H. R....
Joe Gregorio‘s post, A World Made of (Well-Designed) Cities, points to two interesting pieces: Tim O’Reilly’s reprint of a Stewart Brand lectu...