Recent Bluessky Posts- I am finding it hard to concentrate this week. I think this @!#$!@# is why. March 12, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Torts: John C.P. Goldberg, What Can The Reasonable Lawyer (and Law Professor) Foresee?, JOTWELL (Mar. 12, 2026) (reviewing Kenneth S. Abraham, The Liability Revolution That No One Saw Coming, 78 Fla. L. Rev. __ (2026), available at SSRN (Mar. 31, 2025)), torts.jotwell.com/what-can-the.... March 12, 2026 Jotwell
- DLCC sent me email asking me to "renew" my membership. I've never had one because I disapprove of them intervening in primaries against progressives and funneling money to bad candidates in the general. But is lying to your own voters a new low? March 9, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Wisps from a smoking gun? www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-... "The woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 provided several verifiable details about her life in interviews with the FBI, according to a new report." #Epstein March 9, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- "The U.S. military said it killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean... Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people..." These alleged murders by the U.S. military hardly make the news any longer. March 9, 2026 SFDB
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Just to Tide You Over
No serious blogging today as I'm busy reading some pretty good stuff produced by my students. So here's the INQ's Top ten Firefox browser annoyances just to tide you over.
Update: Ed Bott calls this list “lame”. He's more than half right: the list leaves off the big stuff (like it's too darn slow to start up and could render faster, cf. Opera). But it does include three very fair critiques, I think:
1. Couldn't patches be patches rather than mega-downloads?
2. Thunderbird should be renamed Firefox Mail for marketing reasons, and available as a bundled download so I can give newbies a single URL.
3. And, most, importantly, programs in the suite should share the GRE better.
An Amazing Allegation About Bolton
The power of a blog? Be it truth or libel this is one powerful tale about the rabid madness of John Bolton.
Chris Nelson says the real reason this nomination is still alive is Republican omerta. Or is that democratic centralism?
Posted in Politics: The Party of Sleaze
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FreeCiv 2.0 !!!
The following announcement is reported not just because it's great news, but also because it will serve as a test of how frequently Eldest Child reads this blog:
Freeciv 2.0.0 has been released and is available for download.
Changelog is somewhat slashdotted, so I've reproduced it below:
Posted in Software
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Unnatural Selection?
Via Cosmic Iguana – Voice of the Evil Doers comes news that there is now “overwhelming” (well, at least very substantial) evidence that Bisphenol A, aka BPA, a chemical found in plastics, is likely leaching out of plastic bottles and into our bodies. Each bottle may add only a trace amount, but the cumulative of this estrogenic compound effect might, the Iguana suggests, explain radically dropping sperm counts in the US.
Are we living an unintentional evolutionary experiment in which we select strongly for resistance to an estrogenic compound? Perhaps…but only if the effect is real, large numbers of people don't have diets that avoid the plastics, and — most importantly — only if this is is something to which some part of the population actually has a resistance.
Posted in Science/Medicine
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How to Scare a Blogger
Spotted at The American Street:
cache poisoning somewhere? a 302 exploit? ) or what I can do about it.
Update: Kevin amended his post, and we exchanged emails. For the reason described in the comments, the problem is solved (Kevin seemed to have inherited a spammer's IP number, which I had redirected).
Posted in Discourse.net
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