All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

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

radio is done.

i'm finding a new blog tool. expect irregular blog updates until i decide.

the reason

radio loses data in crashes, in a major way…. i lost 10 posts today, and have lost more in the past. i don't like it, don't need it.

so, what i need to find is a great aggregator with that in hand, i can then decide on how to post to a blog tool.

Grace Hopper Celebration Coming up soon: The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 6-9 in Chicago Illinois. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2004 is the fifth in a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career…

by three dead trolls…..

classic.