As if the Patriot Act wasn’t dangerous
enough. This is a very scary ruling by the Supreme
Court.
· Reuters: ruled on Monday that people are required to identify
themselves when asked to do so by police, and rejected arguments that
it violates their constitutional rights to privacy and to remain
silent.
The erosion of
the Constitution continues. Another sad day for
American liberty.
[Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
Sir Tim: 'No New TLDs Please'
Sir Tim: 'No New TLDs Please'
05/19/2004 02:55 PMThe man credited with creating the World Wide Web is not too keen on
some domain name ideas, especially for wireless devices.
ScarletFusion is 'Your External
Marketing Department'
ScarletFusion is 'Your External
Marketing Department'
08/16/2004 08:29 AMScarletFusion provides you with your own external marketing
department, offering a fusion of marketing strategy and communications
tailored to your business. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]
EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
08/02/2004 03:02 AMEFF has taken things one step further with JibJab and their endangered
political parody of This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie's copyright
holder has threatened to sue them for their work).
We're bringing the fight to Guthrie's rightsholders, and suing on
JibJab's behalf, "to defend JibJab's fair use and free speech rights."
Check out Donna's excellent and heavily linked post for more.
Link
EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody
EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody
07/29/2004 06:53 AMI'm proud to relate that EFF is representing Jib Jab, the creators of
the wonderful "This Land is Your Land"
Flash parody that aroused
the ire of the holder of Woody Guthrie's copyrights and resulted in a
threatened
lawuit. Here's a little bit of my cow-orker Fred von Lohmann's
letter to the copyright-holder's lawyers.
In your July 23 letter, you contend that "This Land" offers no
"satirical comment" on the Guthrie original. You are mistaken.
While your view of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as being
predominantly about "the beauty of the American landscape" and "the
disenfranchisement of the underclass" is interesting, most Americans
think of the song as an iconic expression of the ideal of national
unity. Jib Jab's parody addresses, among other things, the lack of
national unity that characterizes our current political climate
(ending with the optimistic hope that unity might be rediscovered). In
short, "This Land" explores exactly the same themes as the Guthrie
original, using the parodic device of contrast and juxtaposition to
comment on the original. See Abilene Music v. Sony Music
Entertainment, 320 F .Supp.2d 84, 90-91 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) (emphasizing
the role of contrast and juxtaposition as parodic devices). The
parodic comment takes on an additional dimension of irony when viewed
in light of the often omitted closing stanzas of Guthrie's original.
556k PDF
LinkThis Land Is St. Joe's Land
This Land Is St. Joe's Land
04/14/2005 03:32 PMReal estate will always be worth something. So, too, should the St.
Joe Company.
Your Papers, Please
Your Papers, Please
08/16/2004 04:05 PMGilmore v. Ashcroft: Meet John Gilmore.
On the 4th of July 2002, John Gilmore, American citizen, decided to
take a trip from one part of the United States of America to another.
He went to Oakland International Airport -- ticket in hand -- and was
told he had to produce his ID if he wanted to travel. He asked to see
the law demanding he show his 'papers' and was told after a time that
the law was secret and no, he wouldn't be allowed to read
it.
Your papers, sir?
Your papers, sir?
02/18/2004 04:13 PM Papers, please! On
March 22, the Supreme Court will hear a case that will answer whether
or not citizens have to provide identification whenever police demand
it.
Let Me See Your Papers
Let Me See Your Papers
02/18/2004 02:57 PMA Nevada man was arrested solely for failure to produce identification
papers. His web site presents his side of a case that will soon be
heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Land Down Under 601
Land Down Under 601
12/08/2003 02:13 PMgdayworld_at_hotmail.com (Dec 07 2003)
This Land Is Your Land
This Land Is Your Land
11/12/2003 01:30 PM Vanished America If you've ever wondered what to do with all of
your old vacation photos and slides, wonder no more. A fellow named
Charles Cushman bequeathed his collection of over 14,000 slides and
photos taken over a period of three decades, from 1938 to 1969, to
Indiana Univiersity. IU has decided to create
an amazing
digital archive of his photos as a history project.
The photos are nothing special in themselves. He took countless
pictures of things he and his wife saw as they took driving tours
across the United States, mostly near their home in Chicago and in the
West. They are no different than and no better than anybody else's
amateur photos. But, as the director of the project points out,
without realizing it, Cushman captured an America already beginning to
disappear in the middle of the 20th century, and did so by documenting
its disappearance unwittingly over a thirty-year period. I lightly
perused the
slide show of 120 images and the photos are indeed both
banal and compelling all at the same time. A very nicely done site
with a lot of rich material.
(via
The Cartoonist)
This Land
This Land
07/16/2004 01:58 PMkey words: flash, politics, musicals! .. spoof on the making of a
president .. funniest political animations .. This Land Is Your
Land
plur.net/thisland.html
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"This Land"
"This Land"
07/14/2004 03:21 PMone if by land, two if by sea...
one if by land, two if by sea...
05/06/2004 01:03 PM
Cirque de Sore
Legs may have won the people's choice award, but the competition
[including a giant poodle, a bird's nest, and Kafka
mid-metamorphosis] wasn't half bad. Baltimore's annual Kinetic
Sculpture Race, an unholy amalgam of engineering and art, occurred
last week. Created by
Hobart Brown in 1969, kinetic sculpture
races require participants to build human-powered vehicles that can
traverse a racecourse over land and sea, not to mention mud and sand.
And they have to do it in style. Don't live near the Chesapeake?
Then visit similar races in
Arcata,
Boulder,
Ventura,
Corvallis, and even
Perth,
Australia. Too tame for you? Perhaps you'd like to try a
flugtag or the
Providence or
Bognor birdman competitions.
This land!
This land!
07/11/2004 03:56 PMjibjab.com/MovieViewer.aspx?contentid=162
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An interesting set of GC papers
An interesting set of GC papers
09/16/2004 03:06 PM Courtesy, indirectly, of the VEE workshop:
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Steve.Blackburn/pubs/abstracts.html Looks like
maybe read barriers aren't as bad as I thought they might be. May well
be worth more investigation in getting infrastructure set up....
PETTT Papers
PETTT Papers
12/26/2003 10:03 AMPETTT Papershttp://depts.washingt
on.edu/pettt/papers/The Program for Educational
Transformation through Technology (PETTT) was established in 2000 as a
University Initiative at
the
University of Washington.
Their mission is to make it easier for educators to use technology to
transform the ways in which teachers teach and learners learn, and to
disseminate this knowledge locally and nationally.
PETTT's
vision is to evaluate the interplay of technology and pedagogy in real
settings in order to promote a strong connection between research and
the design and use of educational technology.
IP Law Papers and Links
IP Law Papers and Links
08/30/2004 06:51 AMIP Law Papers and Linkshttp://techlawadvisor.com/pap
ers/A comprehensive list of white papers on IP Law and
related links from the
Tech
Law Advisor. This will be added to
Legal Resources 2004-05
Internet MiniGuide.
"Don?t read the papers much, do you,
Rev?"
"Don?t read the papers much, do you,
Rev?"
08/03/2004 09:58 PMThe Diebold Papers and the Law
The Diebold Papers and the Law
04/24/2004 12:57 PMErnest Miller discusse
s a judge's ruling that the Oakland Tribune must return legal memos it was leaked about the latest Diebold
e-voting fiasco.
His main point, and it's a good one:
"Of course, one
might note that bloggers would have been much more likely to publish a
story based on the memos and publish all the memos simultaneously.
There would be nothing left to return to Jones Day under the judge's
order; it all would have been published on the internet. By trying to
maintain an exclusive, the newspaper has created the possibility that
the documents will be suppressed."
Today's Papers
Today's Papers
06/01/2004 04:18 AMcam's got a great start on a trackbacked google news-style community
Two papers, one real
Two papers, one real
04/16/2005 02:23 AMKaren Schneider, the Freerange Librarian, has an article in the
Library Journal on the ethics of librarian blogs that begins
promisingly: "Blogging is turning information into a conversation..."
And, it continues just as well, explaining the ethics and ethos of
blogging in what she calls the "biblioblogosphere." She recommends
transparency, linking to sites with which you disagree, being accurate
— even postponing pressing the Publish button until you're sure,
a pretty drastic step for some of us — and admitting your
mistakes. The BBC reports that the World Multiconference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) to be held in July...
"White Papers"
"White Papers"
08/15/2004 03:44 PMGet yer free land!
Get yer free land!
03/14/2005 05:38 PMThe Mid-West is offering free land! To stem the exodus of its
populations to cities, many small midwestern towns are offering
incentives to folks who'd be willing to move there, according to this
New York Times article, Empty House on the Prairie. As a fan of the
Little House on the Prairie, I must admit I'm tempted. On my one visit
to rural Nebraska, I was stuck by the beauty of the prairie landscape.
And then there's this:
In some of these towns, a commute to work is four minutes; crime is
all but nonexistent; at night you half-believe you can look toward the
soundless sky and see the outskirts of heaven. And isolation, in our
age of 500 channels, of easy Internet access and e-mail, does not mean
the same thing it did to generations past.
Perhaps I'll load the covered wagon, hitch up the team, and hit the
trail. When you next see me, I'll be running down a hill in my calico
dress, my arms outstretched at my sides, my bonnet flapping in the
wind.
OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
OpinionJournal - Wonder Land
12/16/2003 07:49 AMDon Corleone would fit right in as Democratic Party boss .. The link
between the Democratic party .. OpinionJournal - Wonder Land .. Gore,
Dean, And The Clintons .. Gore makes Dean an offer .. The Wall Street
Journal
opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110004432
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Some land problems
Some land problems
04/01/2005 04:49 AMMy post last month about free land, Get yer free land!, has landed
(har har) me in a tricky spot. I now seem to be the fifth Googe
response for free land which is leading to strange emails from people.
Two excerpts:
I would like to request more information about the free land. I'd like
too know how I could get in on it also.
And today's missive, with (I hope) some typos:
would love to move from calif to on of the places that has free land .
But i have quistions like I have two foster bays I need to know what
that county would give to them to live on. The other thing is do they
have places to rent until you build. the other is could you place a
mudular or moble home on the land to live in while you get a job and
you feel me.
I updated the post. I don't know about the free land, I only link to
it. And I don't want to feel anyone.
Land of the Giants
Land of the Giants
09/04/2004 08:57 PM
Land of the
Giants and other
roadside attractions.
Danny's Land
Danny's Land
03/06/2004 01:48 AM
Danny's Land: a
blog of amusement park, ride theory and oddball transportation links.
How not to land a helicopter
How not to land a helicopter
03/23/2005 01:19 PMDavid Pescovitz:
This video may be old news, but I'd never seen it before. A military
helicopter tries to land on a ship and, well, fails.
Link to 2.6mb WMV file
(Thanks, Michael-Anne
Rauback!) Along those same
JG
Ballardian lines, the House of Rapp has a gallery of links to
other aircraft crash videos.
Lin
k Sea and Sky and Land - GRRR!
Sea and Sky and Land - GRRR!
08/12/2004 02:35 AM"Security" personnel on the NY Waterway ferry from Hoboken to
Manhattan hassled this guy over a book he was carrying .. this
personal account .. Read the rest ..
books
livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
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LDU (land down under) xss vulnerability
LDU (land down under) xss vulnerability
05/29/2004 03:25 PMtim de gier (May 29 2004)
I'm in Credit La La Land
I'm in Credit La La Land
08/11/2004 05:04 PMDo you know your FICO score? Dayana Yochim doesn't -- yet.
More Troubles in Toy Land
More Troubles in Toy Land
05/25/2004 10:04 AMIt's a stuffed-dog-eat-stuffed-dog kind of a world.
Photos of La La Land
Photos of La La Land
08/05/2004 10:46 AM
West Sunset - Photos
of Lost Angeles.
[some of you may not like that it's a flash
site] This Land belongs to you and me
This Land belongs to you and me
07/19/2004 11:30 AMDavid Fox turned me onto this....
Check it out!
Leaving La La land.......
Leaving La La land.......
11/03/2003 12:19 PM
Time flies when you're running jet set to every crazy cool event you
can squeeze into 3 days. I leave...
Something is brewing in the land of RSS
Something is brewing in the land of RSS
07/21/2004 07:46 PM
Several thing are brewing in RSS land, one centers around
Technorati as it looks like they are getting ready to start pulling
Political feeds in a separate area. Along with that Dave Winer has a
hot project in work that will be needing some hard-core bloggers to
help out on. It's nice to see that innovation in the weblog community
is alive and well. [Politics
Technorati] [Scriptin
g News]
Immediate Update: Looks like Technorati will be working with CNN
during the DNC. [ZDNet]
Trapped in our own land
Trapped in our own land
04/15/2005 06:51 PM
Arabic Media Internet Network Apr 15 2005 11:04PM GMT
Fantasy Land
Fantasy Land
06/11/2004 02:34 PM
USA Today Jun 11 2004 6:22PM GMT
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