I’ve enjoyed reading Bruce MacEwen’s work at Adam Smith, Esq. for the past few years, and his writing seems ever more timely given the serious risk of an L-shaped depression. Every lawyer should be reading it, and lots of non-lawyers could learn a bit about outside-the-box thinking from Bruce too.
Yesterday’s post was on alternatives to [...]
Via madisonian.net, I found this line at The Faculty Lounge:
Once upon a time, a big firm had to be coy about layoffs - it didn’t want to gain a reputation as an unstable workplace. But in a startling real-world example of social norm shifts, the stigma around layoffs appears to be crumbling.
If you want the best [...]
I’m not sure when this happened, exactly, but GNOME sudoku got a heck of a lot better at one point. It was always functional, but the new(?) start screen, color highlighting of rows, and multiple printing are all quite nice. And the post-win colors are only minorly seizure-inducing. :) Kudos and thanks.
Last year my journal published a paper by Jerry Brito, arguing for greater government transparency through web-based data sharing, mashing, etc. Jerry is putting some of that in practice with his Stimulus Watch project, which uses a data set from the US Conference of Mayors to allow individuals to review and discuss various ’shovel ready’ [...]
bad: I’m hating writing this paper, tentatively titled “Access Remedies after Open Standards: Can An “Open” Technology Be Successfully Regulated?”
good: I got to write the following very satisfying footnote: “Indeed, their work is valuable primarily for the thorough and exemplary historical research presented in it; the conclusions drawn about software development processes reflect a remarkable [...]