Kieran Healy

Posted
27 July 2008 @ 8pm

Tagged
IT, Internet

At the forefront of IP issues in GPL software

Or so I was back in 1999, at least according to this Groklaw thread. If only I had known.


Posted
22 July 2008 @ 9pm

Tagged
Misc

24/7 Solar Madness

Via Jim Lindgren at Volokh, some article from the Rocky Mountain News about Al Gore’s recent call for the U.S. to be fully running on renewable energy within a decade. The piece itself is hackery (though it does deftly compare Gore to Chairman Mao) but contains the following gem:

Stanley Lewandowski, the general manager of the […]


Posted
22 July 2008 @ 8pm

Tagged
Misc

Seriously, Beware Finland

“Beware Finland” jokes Matt Yglesias in a post about education policy. But, frankly, this is good geopolitical advice. Just ask the Soviets. Or consider the following statistics.

I’d watch out for them, if I were you.


Last Best Wordle

Henry beat me to the punch by about five minutes, dammit. Here’s my wordley representation of my book, Last Best Gifts.

I didn’t look at the site closely enough to see if I could get a PDF of the output, but it would be nice to have one.


Norm Enforcement is Hard, but People do it Anyway

Via John Gruber, here is Lance Arthur standing in line for three hours for a new iPhone. He gets inside the door of the Apple Store and finds someone has skipped into the queue right behind him.

So, the interminable line outside comes at last to an end, the Apple Security guard walks over and counts […]


Reversing Mass Imprisonment

Bruce Western writes in the current Boston Review about the prison boom and its effects, summarizing findings and extending arguments he’s been developing for a few years, and which I’ve often written about here.

There are now 2.3 million people in U.S. prisons and jails, a fourfold increase in the incarceration rate since 1980. During the […]


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