For me, the intense drama, Herculean legal action and international attention focused on one woman, Terry Schiavo, in an incapacitated state for 15 of her 41 years (doctors appointed by Florida courts to examine Schiavo say “persistent vegetative state,” other physicians have questioned that diagnosis – nothing in this case …
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Consumer Electronics Association Declares “Innovation Independence”
CEA rocks rectum declaring a series of principles to ensure that fair use, home recording rights and innovation are protected in legislative, judicial and regulatory debates regarding the “protection” of intellectual property. Damn straight. CEA unveiled the Declaration during its conference entitled “IP & Creativity: Redefining the Issue,” held March …
Read More »Moving the Rabbit Hole
Since we moved into our house over two years ago we have had the “family” computer down in the basement, which is great when my metal-inclined teenage son wants to loudly rock from his digital playlist or when I want to combine working out with obsessively checking in on Blogcritics, …
Read More »Microsoft Launches “You Can Make a Difference 2”
You’re young. You’re passionate. You know technology (and stuff). Microsoft Corp. has launched its second annual You Can Make a Difference scholarship program this week, which challenges secondary school students around the world to design technology-based projects to benefit charitable organizations. Previously available only to students from the United States …
Read More »Friday femme fatales
In answer to that endlessly circulating question “where are all the female bloggers?”, I’ve decided to make a weekly collection that answers: HERE! Why “femme fatales”? Because these are killer posts. This week’s is drawn from my own blogroll, but in the next week if you read, or write, a …
Read More »Personal Computers: 1 Billion by ’07
There were over 820 million PCs in use throughout the world in 2004 and the total is projected to top 1 billion in 2007. Why is no one talking about birth contol for PCs? What will we feed them? Growth is slowing as the industrialized world, but will continue in …
Read More »Cleveland Blog and Podcasting Meetup Tonight
As Matt Wardlaw mentioned yesterday, podcasting in particular and blogging in general have been getting a lot of attention in Cleveland of late (I just live-blogged the Rock Hall Induction for Cleveland.com Monday night), which is a good sign for all involved. Coincidentally, or not, tonight at 7 at the …
Read More »Not-So-Naughty Bits
Maybe it’s because I work in computers for a living and know firsthand the perils of Version 1.0 (of anything), but when it comes to technology, I’m no early adopter. I’m a Mac specialist, but I learned to use OSX only when I had to support other OSX users. I’m …
Read More »Porn Mining – Searching for the Motherlode
I have been assigned the odious task of searching our IP logs for inappropriate internet content at work, a task I did not ask for, would rather not have, but for which I seem to have an inherent knack. By odd coincidence, on the very day we set out to …
Read More »Morrison Film: “You CANNOT petition the university for admission”
This is a freaky little blast of ephemera from iFilm (view here). In 1964, Jim Morrison appeared an earnest, clean-cut and perplexed prospective Florida State University student turned down for admission because there just wasn’t enough money to go around, in an odd bit of black-and-white propaganda produced by the …
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