Friday, June 30, 2006
Good is Good (01:26 PM) - Some Republicans, I see, have bemoaned Warren Buffet’s generous donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Silly. And Columbia student Stephen Wang calls them on the silliness over at the Columbia Critic….
Zis Apple Computeur, Zey Are Anti-Competiteev (01:00 PM) - The French government has got a curious way of going about things. Now, you won’t find much stronger an anti-Apple partisan as me—those silly computers are blasphemy in my family—but by most accounts the firm puts out a decent suite…
The Cambridge Spin Cycle (12:30 PM) - A few days ago, David French at National Review Online made note that Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, had rescinded his offer to donate $115 million to Harvard University to create a global health institute. The reason Ellison cited…
A SCOTUS Power Grab? (08:40 AM) - National Review has posted an online symposium where international law experts discuss Hamdan. A point I keep hearing made is that, in its reasoning, the Supreme Court arrogated for itself brand-new powers. Julian Ku, at the above link, makes that…
Behind the Curve on Code (08:01 AM) - It takes some people an awful long time to catch on to what’s popular. I’m one of those people. So too, it seems, is OxBlogger David Adesnik, who just read the Da Vinci Code. He was surprised to learn that…