February 20, 2008 – 1:27 am
Larry Lessig announced he’s is considering running for California’s 12th district, a seat left vacant by the death of Representative Tom Lantos. I’m not sold on the idea that Congress is the best place for him to be.
And, even though the seat is vacant, he’ll face considerable competition from State Senator Jackie Speier, a veteran [...]
Emo Philips on this morning’s West Coast Live: Libertarians believe consenting adults should be able to do anything they want. Except band together.
The threats made against Kathy Sierra are vile, disgusting, and not uncommon. For instance: Ginmar, an Iraq war veteran, receives hateful comments and threats every day. Min Jung Kim writes about the constant barrage of stalkers and creepy comments she receives.
I heard about Ms. Sierra canceling her ETech presentation when Liz Henry IM’ed me this [...]
Teresa Nielsen Hayden: Never believe in a meritocracy in which no one is funny-looking.
February 13, 2007 – 11:22 pm
After Blair’s government wrote a law making the “glorification of terrorism” an offense in the UK, Farah Mendlesohn asked science fiction writers for stories that “glorified terrorism”.
January 31, 2007 – 7:21 pm
We’ll try to “Raise more Hell,” but now I’m going to cry.
September 10, 2006 – 12:45 am
I love Madison. The city adopted Pluto as its ninth planet in a humorous resolution reading like a communique from the Unitarian Jihad:
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the City invites any representatives of Pluto (should any exist) to an upcoming Common Council meeting where they will receive the keys to the city, passes to the [...]
September 7, 2006 – 8:17 pm
I figured someone would try to get some political bounce out of the IAU’s reclassification of Pluto as a Dwarf Planet. [ via SpaceRef ]
August 30, 2006 – 10:41 pm
Barlow didn’t realize that moneyed interests would treat open society as damage and route around it. (A nod to Kip Manley.)
August 8, 2006 – 10:41 pm
My friend Laura Quilter, a librarian and counsel at the Brennan Project on Free Expression at NYU, wants to talk to ISPs and ASPs who have received cease and desist letters or DMCA takedown notices:
I’m currently doing a fair use/copyright research project on the impact of the DMCA and cease and desist letters on ISPs [...]
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My gaming group’s starting up an Amber diceless campaign. It’s set in a Nazi-occupied England, and the player characters are part of the The Resistance. John Kim found an article on how the real Nazi’s turned contortions to keep Shakespeare off their banned books register.
An interview with writer Barbara Ehrenreich, who has just started her [...]
Cyn picked up a copy of Charlie Does Surf, an album of Clash covers, at the surf show at the Hotel Utah last weekend. I loved RNA’s version of Spanish Bombs.
Today’s Salon Audiofile linked an Arabic cover of Rock the Casbah by Rachid Taha.
And there’s a project to record covers of every track on Sandinista! [...]
March 22, 2006 – 11:32 pm
Following up on yesterday’s story on the Oglala Sioux’s plan to establish a Planned Parenthood clinic at Pine Ridge Reservation to circumvent South Dakota’s abortion ban:
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are the most likely organization to run it if it’s established. If you’re looking for a place to donate money, I’d [...]
March 22, 2006 – 12:03 am
Ceilia Fire Thunder, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, responded to South Dakota’s law banning abortion by announcing that she’ll establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on the tribe’s Pine Ridge Reservation which sits inside of South Dakota. That got me thinking:
The Oglala Sioux, like other tribes, run casinos.
The casinos provide income and capital for [...]
December 29, 2005 – 4:50 pm
Updated:
First, what is unchanged is that NESFA Press will publish a collection of Ken MacLeod’s short stories, poems, and essays, and that you should all buy a copy.
I had said that the title comes from his pre-Iraq invasion comment: The rulers of the world should be regarded and resisted as if they were giant lizards [...]
