Begging states to try to enforce ridiculous assertion that the law is copyrighted (23)
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann sez, "The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat has a nice article about Carl Malamud's latest project: scanning and posting state and local laws, regulations and ordinances (including building codes, regulations, all the minutiae you're supposed to know) for all to copy and use. This will test those states and counties that claim copyright over the law and want to charge you for copies." Malamud is spoiling for a major legal ...
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nicerobot said:
What?! Laws aren't copyrighted. They belong to the people. That's just ridiculous.
McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don't Lead To Creepy Smile (12)
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PHOENIX, AZ—According to campaign sources, Joseph Chappel, a 38-year-old speechwriter for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), has spent the last two...
Why Palin should be taken seriously (10)
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Three pieces that caution Democrats to not quickly dismiss the candidacy of Sarah Palin. 1. New Republic. "Sarah Palin is a living reminder that the ultimate source of political power in this country is not the Kennedy School or the Davos Summit or an Ariana Huffington salon; even now, power emanates from the electorate itself. More precisely, power in 2008 emanates from the working class electorates of Pennsylvania and Ohio." 2. George Lakoff. "Palin is ...
Iron Age beekeeping discovered (6)
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Researchers have found evidence of a 3,000 year old beekeeping operation in northern Israel. The apiary, consisting of somewhere between 75 and 200 beehives, contains the oldest human-made beehives ever found. From Science News: (Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai) Mazar’s team has so far uncovered 25 cylindrical containers for bees in a structure that is centrally located in the ancient city at Tel Rehov. High brick walls surrounded the apiary. Beehives sat in three parallel rows, ...
John McCain is a Cylon, and Palin is Roslin. (22)
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A fearless truth-seeker who isn't afraid to go where mainstream media is terrified to tread sneaks us this breaking (!) blogsclusive, a deeply troubling discovery at the highest levels of power. Many have noticed that famously short-tempered Vietnam war veteran John McCain, famously imprisoned and tortured in Hanoi, bears a more than passing resemblance to famously short-tempered Cylon war veteran Saul Tigh, famously imprisoned and tortured on New Caprica: Oh, but it doesn't stop there...
Winners of World's Best Presentation Contest (55)
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These are the winners of the Slideshare World's Best Presentation Contest. Notice the use of pictures and graphics, big fonts, and minimal text. Check them out! First Prize THIRSTView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: crisis design) Second Prize Foot NotesView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design inspirational) Third Prize Zimbabwe in CrisisView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: refugee hyperinflation)
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
First one is good, and the topic is interesting as well. Foot notes is cool, but I'm not sure it would make a great presentation. It would be cool to have running before one though.
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Jon of SMA said:
Great presentations and the first prize presentation sure follows a lot of Nancy Duarte's recommendations in slide:ology.
IFA 2008: The Coffee Shop of the Future (9)
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In the Home Appliances section of IFA 2008 in Berlin there are dozens of brands of coffee makers, most doling out freshly-brewed joe to bleary-eyed conventioneers. Interestingly enough, some of the companies are using cool interactive displays, much like Microsoft Surface, in an effort to catch our attention. A video on CrunchGear demonstrates one of the larger of such displays. A small pad on the bottom of the coffee cup contains an icon which a ...
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