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DCist features Siren Song
“These people are clearly crazy and/or jobless.”Daily Miers: A psycho-financial analysis of the Supreme Court nominee
“She managed to work for nearly 30 years as an attorney in private practice without getting rich.”The Cyberpunk Reading List
Pretty good.EFF Researchers Decode Hidden Codes in Printer Output
Researchers at the EFF have apparently confirmed that certain color printers put hidden marks in the pages they print. Special dots encode the date and time when the page was printed, along with the printer’s unique serial number.Siren Song - An incredible waste of time
A new project I’m doing for no good reason. I hope you’ll check it out, follow our progress, and comment on your favorite stores. If you have a blog, a mention and a link would be very very appreciated!Wikipedia: List of recurring characters from The Simpsons
List.eBay agrees to block stun-gun sales to New Yorkers
Eliot Spitzer, always looking out for New Yorkers, makes sure that they can’t defend themselves and that no evil big company can help them do so.Less as a competitive advantage
Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing. Do less than your competitors to beat them.Japanese music industry calls for an ‘iPod tax’
Money earned from the fee, likely to be 2 percent to 5 percent of the retail price, would go to recording companies, songwriters and artists as compensation for lost revenue from home copying.Blegging for DMCA exemption ideas
Me on TLF: Given how strict the criteria are, can anyone think of any class of works that could be exempted from the DMCA anticircumvention prohibtion in the current © Office rulemaking?WSJ on why I’ll never be a Supreme Court justice
“The lesson this nomination in particular will send to younger lawyers is to keep your opinions to yourself, don’t join the Federalist Society, and, heaven forbid, never write an op-ed piece.” (Link.)Marie says it for me
Marie: “A great appellate judge loves the law… Meirs has demonstrated no such fondness for the thinking end of lawyering. Rather, she has voluntarily spent much of her professional life sitting on committees that would’ve driven Scalia to poke his eyes out…”-
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