“Just because every generation feels that we’re going to hell in a handbasket doesn’t mean it isn’t true- it’s just that it takes fucking ages to get anywhere in a handbasket.” — Andy Armstrong
Monthly Archives: September 2006
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14-Sep-06For a few months now I’ve been reading and occasionally commenting on Prof. Jim Chen’s ‘Jurisdynamics‘ blog, which focuses on issues of change and complexity in the law- something I’m really interested in (per the comparison between the code for an operating system and the code for a legal system.) Prof. Chen is aggressively expanding [...]
ACLU prez at the Law School
12-Sep-06While we don’t quite get the personal touch that I often experienced at the Berkman, we still get a lot of great speakers and such passing through Columbia and the other New York area law schools. Today the president of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen, swung through for a brief lunch talk. I took sort of [...]
Death and rebirth of the science journal, journalism, and what the hell, maybe the law journal too
12-Sep-06Interesting melange of articles, not quite sure what they point to for me in the future:
Two bioinformatics guys write about ‘the death of the paper‘. Their thesis is that scientific journal articles are going to need to be reinvented, as massive data sets become more common, and more important than the actual paper/writing themselves. In [...]
Not forgotten.
11-Sep-06More pictures from my slice of 9/11/2006.
In the next five years, unlike the last five, I hope we use their memory to inspire us to actually make the US and the world safer for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, instead of making us less safe, or settling old scores. I hope we decide [...]
Four more miscellaneous bits
09-Sep-06Morning blogging sprint is over, nearly:
Tangential to the facebook privacy issues, someone posted on craigslist announcing that they were a female looking for sex. Very predictable results, except that they were a guy, and they posted all the details. Not much substance there, but funny, and maybe a bit scary for our expectations of privacy.
I [...]
on careers
09-Sep-06At our introductory dinner Thursday night, a professor spoke on the importance of doing what you want to do and avoiding the risk-avoiding*, herd-following behavior that all lawyers fall into when considering careers. It was a nice speech, and I do hope a lot of people listen to her. Unfortunately, we won’t- something like 97% [...]
the state of tablet software in linux
09-Sep-06I bought a Lenovo X41 tablet two weeks ago. I got it for a number of reasons- ease of note-taking, improved interaction with professors, just needing a new machine anyway, etc. I knew going in that the state of linux tablet software was sort of poor, but after more investigation I’m surprised at how poor, [...]
webcite- ubercool!
09-Sep-06Lessig’s blog pointed me at WebCite- surely one of those ‘everyone in academia has thought about this at one point, but no one has actually done it’ ideas. (I know I’ve had it in the back of my mind since my last year of college, but never had the motivation to get off my ass [...]
So facebook did an update last night, changing it from something that had all the data to enable stalkers, but which made it mildly irritating to do it from their UI, to making it radically easy to find out all sorts of personal information about someone. Lets be utterly, 100% clear- you can’t do anything [...]