The Plum Line has the video, Watch Lieberman Endorse Medicare Buy-In Three Months Ago. Now he says that the inclusion of the very proposal he formerly claimed to support is why Lieberman opposes the health care [...]
According to 8,702 news articles from literally around the world, Accenture is dropping Tiger Woods, but Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer stands by Tiger Woods, 'the best in his domain'.
While it's not difficult to understand why Accenture might want to drop an alleged serial philanderer with a taste [...]
Seen on a maling list of folks I mostly knew in college:
It's 7 pm in uganda and raining cats and baboons. We've been on the road, if u can call it that, for about 5 hours, with no end in sight. Sent from my blackberry…
If you ask me the [...]
Here's a public service announcement: Don't get too excited about Jim Lindgren's post that Some of the “Homogenized” Temperature Data is False (which relies on Willis Eschenbach's The Smoking Gun At Darwin Zero) until you have digested the debunking at Economist.com, Scepticism's limits.
Brad DeLong has renamed his blog to J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with a Prehensile Tail. (It used to be “J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with Both Hands.”) I [...]
Editor & Publisher distinguished itself during the Bush regime for its skeptical coverage of the war and more. And now E&P is going to be closed at the end of the month, after 108 of continuous publication.
The new owners of E&P's parent, Nielsen Business Media, made the (to me) [...]
Via Talkleft, Records the Government Keeps On You:
The Forensic Scientist Blog has a list of the top six files the government keeps on you, how to obtain them, and why you should have them.
Cateories: The [...]
I have seen the future, and it is looking at me with Google Goggles.
Interestingly, “Google Goggles” was part of the title of a good 2005 dissertation on search engine bias by Alejandro M. Diaz, Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design. [...]
I'm speaking this afternoon at the 2009 International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM09). At 3:30 I'll be one of the panelists, speaking on “Privacy in Databases: From Theory to Practice”; my presentation will concentrate on legal rights to be anonymous.
Conveniently, the whole show is coming [...]
This article in today's NYT, Religion Journal - Montana Rabbi Lends an Ear to an Officer and His Dog, by Eric Stern, is one of the funniest and best-structured articles I have ever [...]
This article in today's NYT, Religion Journal - Montana Rabbi Lends an Ear to an Officer and His Dog, by Eric Stern, is one of the funniest and best-structured articles I have ever [...]
Addressing an audience of cadets barely older than my eldest son, President Obama took ownership of the war in Afghanistan and asked the people of the United States -- and our allies -- to give him a mulligan on the prosecution of that conflict.
We were, the President argued plausibly, doing [...]
Chris Soghoian posts a bombshell or two at slight paranoia: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Executive Summary
Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers' (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure [...]
Apparently, at Goldman, Sachs they're not just feeling the heat, they're packing it too:
“I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for [...]
Glenn Greenwald labels Sen. Evan Bayh as The face of rotted Washington.
And not without reason.
[...]Via Cheerfully Demented, details of auctions in which winners get the right to be “Tuckerized” in novels by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear, Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal.
Tuckerizing is the inclusion [...]
Here's something to be grateful for: Feds drop money-laundering case against Miami lawyer Ben Kuehne.
Justice was done too slowly here. But at least it was done.
[...]I wrote the post below about Phil Agre seven weeks ago, but somehow never put it online. Now I read via the Great Grimmelmann that Phil Agre Is Missing and there is a web site dedicated to finding Phil Agre.
It seems I am not the only one [...]
UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files.
In the UK under the odious Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), if you are served with an order to disclose a passphrase to an encrypted file and you don't, you're guilty.
We saw this coming ten years ago,
Caspar Bowden, director [...]
UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files.
In the UK under the odious Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), if you are served with an order to disclose a passphrase to an encrypted file and you don't, you're guilty.
We saw this coming ten years ago,
Caspar Bowden, director [...]
Borders is having a bad time in the US - $39M Loss in Q3 - and seems to be going broke in the UK.
Which is a shame, as I find their book stores a lot nicer than Barnes & Noble, which always [...]
According to Marcel Berlins, English judges have never had gavels, despite what you routinely see on the BBC.
He is not amused.
(via The Magistrate's Blog)
(From SNL)
There's a lot that rings true in the broad-brush parts Matt Tabbi's latest screed although I take exception to the most vicious bits, like the line about Palin “having the brains of an innertube.”
No, Palin is [...]
We got our Swine Flu shots today — except the youngest, who had gotten the live nasal vaccine in school a few days ago.
The rest of us got the shots through UM, which is vaccinating employees and their children. The Sunday operation was run with extreme efficiency; we were in [...]
For a minute there I thought I'd gotten my first phishing email from Iran. But after a look at the headers, I think maybe not?
Received: from law.miami.edu ([172.16.8.69]) by EXCHVS.law.miami.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:28:14 -0500
Received: from ([194.225.184.9])
by mx-01.law.miami.edu with ESMTP id 5202001.34032630;
[...]
Here's what I did this afternoon:
More details at Soul of Miami and Sex and the Beach.
It was a good party - met Mustang Bobby and saw the Miami Beach 411 crowd — always the life of the party. Plus I met the [...]
Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education.
(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests.)
[...]Advocates of a 'plain meaning' approach to constitutional interpretation may have to conclude that Texas accidentally banned all marriage, as described in this McClatchy report, Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston' [...]
US News rankings are biased in ways that hurt the U. Miami Law; here's one I would guess is biased in our favor: 2010 Super Lawyers U.S. Law School Rankings by Super Lawyers magazine. They say we are #20 [...]
Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education.
(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests.)
[...]Had a very good time at the OII, had an especially fun seminar with some of the students.
Now I'm back, wading through huge stacks of things that piled up while I was away. No bloggy substance till I make a dent in the piles.
[...]I gave my Oxford-sponsored talk in London today; people said nice things after, so I guess it was OK. I had forgotten how much more US audiences indicate by noise and body language whether they like talks. A British audience is far more polite, but also far more reserved; words [...]
The UK papers are all, ahem, a-Twitter, about this story: Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour.
It seems that one of the leading 'sex bloggers' in the UK [...]
Let me just say that I am never checking a bag through CDG again.
I had a 1 hour 40 minute connection, which became a little over one hour connection when the plane was late.
I made it. The bag did not. The very very nice and cheerful man at LHR [...]
Because I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17, I need to be in London.
So I'm currently at MIA (memo to self: never, ever take the terminal D security line no mater how short it looks in order to get to terminal E — longest detour in airport history), [...]
The Houseguest points me to the customer reviews at Amazon for the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk: Electronics.
Many creative uses.
[...]I asked previously why no one was asking about an exit strategy for Afghanistan.
Well, it seems that someone important is asking that hard question.
[...]TMP runs the story of Hannity's apology as Cold Day in Hell.
Hannity claims it was an “inadvertent” error. (See Hannity = Dishonesty for background.)
Now on his program last night he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking about the Republican [...]
I have a house guest who is probably one of the few teetotal geek folksinger freelance journalists in captivity.
The guest described to me a potentially useful feature of Tweetdeck that I didn't know existed (dividing people you follow into 'groups'), so I fired it up. (I don't use Twitter very [...]
The most amazing thing about this story is that I think no one will care.
Jon Stewart catches out Fox propagandist Hannity in a stunning piece of dishonesty, one that could not possibly be accidental. In any normal democracy with a well-functioning press and political culture, this sort of neo-Goebbelian manipulation [...]
From EFF's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
Stuff like this is why I'm proud to be on EFF's Advisory Board. (Although I can claim zero credit for EFF's great work on this matter.)
Here's a [...]
Joho the Blog, Line from a conf:
“There is a way to herd cats: Move their food.” — speaker at a closed conf
[...]
James Grimmelmann has a nice piece up on Jotwell called Third Parties to the Rescue.
Here's how it starts:Michael Risch’s Virtual Third Parties, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 416 (2009) tips the scales at [...]
