Category Archives: Linkorama

• 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

You might want to look at

• Digby, Used Up -Dave Obey's farewell is depressing
• Brian Leiter, Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement: Developing an Argument from Nietzsche (note the interesting responses)
• OpenLeft, Why Sestak's new ad is so devastating against Arlen Specter. Right-wing Politico seems worried
• California Dems are not sheep.
• Via Susan Crawford, FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick, A Third-Way Legal Framework For Addressing The Comcast Dilemma
• Steve Vladeck (too?) politely shreds Sen. Lieberman's disgusting proposal to gut the 14th Amendment's citizenship provision in Why the Terrorist Expatriation Act is Unconstitutional: Early Thoughts. OTOH Peter Spiro says it's a tempest in a tea bag.
• Marco Rubio now supports Arizona law, hardens immigration line. I have to presume that we're seeing here the first fruits of the 3-way Florida Senate race, in which firming up your base becomes more important than moving to the center.
• How a browser extension leaks Google history to Amazon
• http://xn——rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn—wgbh1c/ is now a valid URL (it's an encoding of an Arabic-language IDN)

• Stuart Green, iPhone, Gizmodo, and moral clarity about crime
• University of Miami is no longer Playboy's top party school
• Tor, the great F/SF publisher, they of the famous slush pile, wants your short stories
• UM's Health and Elder Law Clinic Wins Prestigious Public Interest Award
• Complaint in United States v. Shahzad
• Meanwhile, TalkLeft schools the AG on the rules of professional conduct regarding public statements in the Shhzad case
• Fonts are serious stuff
• Dan (at Nieman Watchdog), Institutional anemia cripples congressional oversight