Category Archives: Linkorama

• Boing Boing, Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o’s laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay
• Medical Daily, (via, slashdot)
• Mat Taibbi finds One Interesting Thing About Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus Biography (via Leiter)
• Man arrested for theft of “9 million files” said to comprise identity data for roughly 2/3 of the Greek population (via RISKS)
• Naked Capitalism, An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln (That You Won’t Hear from Hollywood)
• Jon Huntsman continues his strategy of positioning himself as the sane alternative for the GOP. Fortunately, there’s no sign at present that this can work.
• U.S. Deficit Shrinking At Fastest Pace Since WWII, Before Fiscal Cliff & Your helpful Thanksgiving charts about the deficit (via Maddow Blog) … partial corrective at Kevin Drum, The Federal Deficit Is Shrinking Already, But That’s Not Really a Good Thing

The Poor Get One Strike; Banks Get Thousands – Frank Pasquale compares the fate of rich people engaging in massive organized fraud to that of poor people who have the misfortune to be present when someone else commits a crime.

Japan’s Secret Plan to Dominate the World – Kevin Drum wants to know if there is anything to this amazing conspiracy theory, based on a claim that bureaucrats intentionally understated the health of their economy.

SEC Announced Latest Chump Change Settlement With GE Funding The Friday Before Christmas. Hmmm… Crooks & Liars’ SEC Whitewash Watch.

• Free speech is hit in Miami-Dade County by Lynda Bell. Guest Blog By Youbetcha’
• Talkleft, OK Woman Gets 10 Years for Selling $31 of Marijuana
• John R. Levine, A politically incorrect guide to IPv6, Part I & A politically incorrect guide to IPv6, Part II
• C&L, People Around The World Are Grabbing A ‘Pizza’ Madison Union Solidarity By Feeding Protesters
• Miami Herald, Rep. Rivera and his $817,067 consultant
• Stewart Baker, Words you can’t say at the Pentagon
• Frank Pasquale, All the Right Moves

• Morgan Kelly, If you thought the bank bailout was bad, wait until the mortgage defaults hit home, in the Irish Times
• David Weinberger, Stripes and Hierarchies, at the Harvard Business Review
• Daniel Ortiz, Administrative Law’s Empire I, at the CockleBur
• Nancy Scola, We Have Joined Facebook, at techPresident

• boingboing, Intel + DRM: a crippled processor that you have to pay extra to unlock
• Fred Clark finds Jackie at the crossroads
• Juan Cole explains why in a certain foreign leader's mind Ahmadinejad resembles Cyrus the Great
• Greenwald savages Obama's tone-deafness to progressive concerns in Obama's view of liberal criticisms
• Grimmelmann, The Mufti of Constantinople
• Kos, Before you say the country is moving to the right… (look at all the evidence to the contrary)
• The ugly world of constant souseveillance takes a giant step forward with the introduction of the $199 Looxcie (smartphone required); see also the smartpen AKA “The Pen That Never Forgets”
• Reid Report, Herald Tribune on Rubio: public fiscal hawk, private spendthrift
• Steve Vladeck, The Graham Bill and Detention Authority: U.S. Citizens and Material Support
• David Weinberg, The Internet as a human right (not what you might guess from the title)

Bad

• Society acts as if All Force Is Reasonable Force
• Northern District of California Permits Defendants to Interrogate Title IX Plaintiff About Whether She Consented to Teacher’s Sexual Behavior When She Was 15
• Senate GOP: for tax cuts for the rich, not for much else. They're for deficit reduction in principle, but not in practice if at the expense of tax cuts for their friends. And they live in economic bizzaro land where they deny that their tax cuts cost anything. Paul Krugman calls this delusional. There's a chart. And even the Heritage Foundation agrees: Bush tax cuts permanently lowered revenue. (PS. If Bush's tax cuts created jobs, where are they?)
• Regular exercise isn't enough for men who stare at screens
• FOMC expects slower growth, higher unemployment and less inflation
• European Digital Rights (EDRi) has released the digital comic Under Surveillance (via boingboing)
• Rand Paul, far far out there.
• For this unemployed lawyer, finding job interviews (including for non-law jobs) is like seeking unicorns

Good

• 11-Year-Old Grows Tons of Veggies for the Homeless

• A new poll of Cuban American attitudes conducted by the University of Miami shows that two-thirds of that community now supports lifting the travel ban to Cuba
• The Daily Business Review has a short write-up of my chair (subscribers only, like this is such valuable news….)
• Paul Ohm has a cool-looking article in the Harvard Law Review, The Right to Delete.
• Geek humor: “It is believed that written warnings to users against these dangerous configurations are both prudent and ineffective.” (Also, “A fool and their data are soon parted.”)
• Justice is done, or so argues Rumpole
• Congressman Joe Sestak, the guy who defeated Senator Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary, started out behind Republican Pat Toomey, but now they are tied in the latest poll. Details at Kos. Send money now.

Good and Bad

There is a new dubstep mix of the War of the Worlds but it is slashdotted.

Not webby, but bad

• Scott Maddox is spamming me.

• It's guess it's good to know I can still be shocked: Polling For A Plan —- BP asks child psychiatrists for advice
• I suppose I'm too old to make proper use of Ian Ayres's advice on how to diversify risk across time?
• A Miami TSA airport screener, agitated at continued ribbing after colleagues saw his body parts in an imaging scanner, attacked a colleague, police said. But, Saying `no' to TSA's full-body scans may come at a price
• Today's tracking poll: Sestak and Specter tied!
• Dan, Obama Administration Demands Amnesia From Reporters Covering Gitmo
• IGPBlog Groundhog Day: 10,000 reminders of why ICANN’s public comment period on the .xxx domain is stupid