Year: 2004

  • The Bush Administration’s War on Tsunami

    The Bush Administration today announced its new policy: to wipe tsunami from the face of the earth. “We will find the tsunami where they live,” said one extremely senior administration official, speaking from an undisclosed vacation hideaway. “And we will smoke them out.”

  • Lessig to revise book by wiki

    This spring, Lawrence Lessig will try to get his 1999 book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace updated by wiki for paper publication later in the year. He’s inviting volunteers to serve as “Chapter Captains”; Lessig will donate his advance and royalties to Creative Commons. (Link via The Volokh Conspiracy.)

  • If you watch one voter suppression in Ohio movie this holiday season

    Make it one of these.

  • language

    what today is dismissed derisvely as “politically correct” used to be called “being considerate.”

  • Another piece of Mizzen

    Reading Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App, I see that deus x has brought up another major facet of the personal social-network web app I’m speccing out in my mind: So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I’ve started building that address book application I mentioned awhile ago and I want to start…

  • Lovely, interesting

    A 30,000-year-old instrument is uncovered in southern Germany: His early experimentation suggests that the old flute would have allowed a relatively sophisticated level of musical variation. “The tones are quite harmonic,” he says. They don’t seem to follow a diatonic scale, he notes, but rather the rules of the pentatonic scale that predominates in Asia.…