February 9th 2007
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The New York Times has an article up comparing the way sex is treated in two of the season's biggest hits, Spring Awakening and Company. What a good idea, I thought. Not quite...
The article an awful conflation of being narrow-mindedly liberal (in the reading of Spring Awakening as outdated because ...
June 30th 2006
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In case you haven't heard, the interest rate is about to jump. A lot. Good for investors and people who already have money. Bad for people who owe money, specifically students:
The variable rate on a common Stafford loan dipped to as low as 2.77 percent for students in the ...
June 13th 2006
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I've fallen behind again! That's what I get for taking a real weekend, I suppose. Catching up, and hopefully progress on this whole Gaming the System thing in the near future. In the meantime...
I went to a debate about Google Book Search last night, hosted by the LA Public Library. ...
April 27th 2006
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From BoingBoing:
A Pledgebank campaign is looking for constituents of California Senator Diane Feinstein to sign on to vote against her if she keeps on supporting the PERFORM act, which will ban MP3 streaming and mandate DRM for Internet audio.
Imagine not being able to email, copy, or edit any digital ...
This Business Week article suggests that Google might be developing their own currency, making an end-run around PayPal (and just about everyone else). This is fascinating when taken together with the economies of MMOGs, especially Second Life, whose Lindens are easily converted to and from real-world currencies. If Google starts ...
March 27th 2006
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According to Towleroad, none of the major networks will run this ad, deeming it "too controversial" to accept $1.5 million for. It's really depressing when money can't buy a message of acceptance.
Mainline churches should be silent while right-wing extremists get to speak their mind?
Do you care?
March 17th 2006
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Wonkette just posted a great interview with gay ex-escort, ex-top-ranked-Mary-Kay-salesman Tom Malin, who was recently running for office in Texas. It's a really fun read, and makes you all the more sad that Malin won't be in public office anytime soon. I just had to point out that halfway through, ...
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The EFF is noting a shift in the Broadcast Flag debate in the Senate. It seems that a well-timed gift has caused the Commerce Committee chairman to ...
After dropping too much cash on gifts and sale items this month, I decided I needed to throw some more money at something that actually mattered, so today I donated to both Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Both of these organizations play an important role in protecting our rights ...
December 3rd 2005
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This is dense, but important. Skip to the third section (the "solution") if you must, but read it. Doc Searls writing about how linguistics are losing us the battle for the future of the internet.
His basic premise is that by speaking of the net in terms of a transport ...