Lessig hits another one out of the park

Lawrence Lessig's NCMR Keynote address: A great presentation. http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/ncmr_keynote.html

HA... SO TRUE!

Awesome! Taken from http://a.bunchof.us/2008/06/05/mccain-bumper-sticker/
 

  McCain is old! Reminds me of http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/

Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones

Title says it all.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/05/entertainment-indust-1.html

How can you think there is NOT a problem/potential for abuse in this type of system? It is like accusing people of a crime by throwing darts at a dartboard!

The power of twitter!

After being arrested this man sent a tweet to twitter simply commenting "Arrested" alerting all of his friends.

His university hired him a lawyer and the man has been released, otherwise who knows... do you know what they do to people in jail in Egypt? Yea me either!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/05/twitter.maree/index.html

Why not naked baristas?

What is wrong with it I ask?

Seriously, no one is forcing people to patronize the establishments, and if they are worried about the innocent children (what a crock) then they should put in regulations that if you wear less then (some standard, say a bikini) then your baristas should be screened from public view.

Apparently Bonney Lake has issues with the baristas going a bit too far (pasties, or electrical tape, or just an apron). See an article here:
<a href="http://seattlest.com/2008/06/05/sitting_here_lo.php">Sexy Baristas Have Gone Too Far, Says Bonney Lake</a> from <a href="http://seattlest.com/">Seattlest</a>

I did try to go to one of these places once... but my car was too short to see anything interesting (yea who likes faces on their baristas anyway?!?). See the account here: <a href="http://schwerzler.com/node/5">32oz? Really?</a>

Amazon pimps ancestry.com books

Spurred by a rogue search from a new/interesting search engine I stumbled across this book on Amazon.com about Schwerzlers.

The interesting thing is this seems to be a "book on demand" type of thing where Ancestry.com will print a book with all/a lot of the records they have relating to <insert name here>

For Schwerzler that book would probably be pretty short (84 pages) in comparison to a book on the name Johnson for example.

It is an interesting feature though, and I wonder why they did not come up with some clever way to electronically distribute the book as well as printing it?

While the idea may be novel, the reaction is not positive. If you look at the tags that people have tagged the book "Waste of good dollars" "Disappointed" "Waste of money"

I think I will hold off on plopping down the $30.

http://www.amazon.com/Schwerzler-Name-History-Ancestry-com/dp/B000WDAMI0

Barack has done it

He has the count now to clinch the nomination... the fight of the Dems is essentially over.

YAY now bring on McCain.