Delicious Library:Delicious Library, via Julia (thanks, Julia!)
Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover. Import your entire library using our exclusive full-speed iSight video barcode scanner, our Flic® Wireless Laser Bar Code Scanner, or (the slow way) entering the titles by hand. Once you have all of your items in your Mac, you can browse though your digital shelves, check stuff out to friends using Apple’s built-in Address Book and calendar, and find new items to read, watch, and play using Library’s recommendations.
Visual card-catalog, eh? This I gotta see.

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sounds nifty, but most of my books would have to be typed in i’d guess.

Play Supreme Court Survivor:
Anupam Chander (who is both a blogger and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law) and JD student Ryan Walters have designed a little web site they call the Supreme Court Survivor game. Their objective is “to highlight the importance of the 2004 presidential election to the preservation of civil liberties in this country.”

Anupam, a charming person whom I met at a conference not so long ago, wrote me a nice note asking me to publicize it, so here it is.

There’s no doubt that the next President will shape the court for a long time: there are liberal, conservative and fence-sitting Justices who are likely to retire. But, cute as it is, I have to wonder whether this game is entirely in good taste, and if as a pure tactical matter it’s the best tool to raise consciousness about this critical issue. It seems to me that there’s some danger it might backfire given the Chief Justice’s coincidental illness.

Meanwhile, if there’s an easter egg in there, I can’t find it.
Update: When you tire of that one, and still want a political online game, you can play Enjoy the Draft’s Spring Break Fallujah: The Game. I am still stuck on the first level, myself.

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well, it is something to play i guess. i wish we could emphasize the importance in say the nyt and similar papers, but no one seems to care that much.

Wanted: A Few Good Blacklists:
This is ultimately one of those questons in the vein of “what’s the best kind of gas mask,” but the comment spam’s been coming fast and thick of late and Jay Allen’s centralized blacklist doesn’t seem to be getting updates:…

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what we need is a nice distributed list

Work on Brit Library’s Free Software archival crawler!:

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this is about the iipc, which i help to work on. http://netpreserve.org is the url

Worship the yellow:

National Geographic Prints The Greatest Ever Scientific Article In the History of The World..

You get the feeling someone just lost it one day in the editorial meeting. Frankly, I’m going to have this one framed. Worship the Yellow, my young friends.

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clearly the National Geographic gets it right.

Homeland Security saves America by busting a toy store owner for legally selling a Rubik’s Cube knockoff:Mark Frauenfelder:
Reinvigorated after spending $500,000 on a self-congratulatory awards dinner in which it handed out “lifetime achievement” awards, the two-year old Dept. of Homeland Security went after an extremely dangerous toy store owner who was selling a knockoff of a Rubik’s Cube. We can all sleep a little more soundly tonight.

The next day, two men arrived at the store and showed Cox their badges. The lead agent asked Cox whether she carried a toy called the Magic Cube. She said yes. The Magic Cube, he said, was an illegal copy of the Rubik’s Cube, one of the most popular toys of all time. He told her to remove the Magic Cube from her shelves, and he watched to make sure she complied.

The whole thing took about 10 minutes.

After the agents left, Cox called the manufacturer of the Magic Cube, the Toysmith Group, which is based in Auburn, Wash. A representative told her that the Homeland Security agents had it wrong. The Rubik’s Cube patent had expired, and the Magic Cube did not infringe on rival toy’s trademark.

Link (Thanks, Ben!)

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well this is cute isn’t it. i mean it isn’t as if these things should matter, but apparently…. they do.

PhotoShop Weasels:

Mithras at Kos proves that the Bush campaign’s latest ad doctors a small crowd into a large one.

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more lying from the bushies…. it is not surprising anymore.

either it works or it doesn’t