Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Taiwan’s Right to Participation in the United Nations (11:37 PM) - David Kopel lays out the case….
There’s Violence There, Like Here (07:23 PM) - It is just amazing at this point, isn’t it? Today’s Associated Press report from Baghdad wails: “Violence killed at least two dozen people across Iraq on Tuesday, including six who died when a car bomb blew up in western Baghdad.”…
When Brad Pitt Advises Us Legally, We All Suffer (01:07 PM) - David Bernstein provides what I think is appropriate humor at the latest PR flack-scripted relationship event in Hollywood: Brad Pitt’s very-public refusal to wed Angelina Jolie till all fifty states permit gay marriage. Here is the Associated Press’ lede: Brad…
The Scripted Proponents (11:58 AM) - Dartmouth’s Alumni Council has occasionally courted criticism as an unelected and fundamentally unrepresentative group with disproportionate power. Members of the task force which drafted a controversial proposed constitution have publicly agreed with this sentiment, and have explained that their proposal…
Keith Olbermann’s Presidential Address (09:06 AM) - I’m not so cynical that I believe Madison Avenue’s ad writers (or the White House’s speechwriters) could craft a full, convincing, round text from a bubble of mere assertion—without any real ideas, facts, or feelings behind it. In other words,…
U. Penn Looks to Gmail, Live Mail (07:57 AM) - I find it fascinating the transformation the e-mail protocol has taken. Some Internet services, like the world wide web, haven’t changed in a decade. Others, like gopher, have basically died. Still others—I’m looking at you, telnet—have become admin-only protocols. But…
Another New Web Design (07:06 AM) - Just a few days after Dartmouth released its silly new website, Brown deployed its new version. Students are a bit piqued, saying the site sacrifices functionality for glitz. And I believe they are right—it does do this. But the technical…